obsidian-ava VS LibreTranslate

Today we’re going to learn how to build a recommendation system for a social publishing platform like Medium. I wanted to share what I learned building the popular Obsidian plugin AVA that recommends your notes.

I just search Obsidian plugins and there are 3 that might work for you:

- https://github.com/louis030195/obsidian-ava

- https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections

You can try https://app.anotherai.co which does exactly this

is this a paid service? the github repo is public but links to a paid service or plugin

Hi foks Louis & Ben here.

We just wanted to share Embedbase. Embedbase is an open-source api to easily create, store, and rerieve embeddings.

It started out as an internal api for an Obsidian plugin we developed called [AVA](https://github.com/louis030195/obsidian-ava). We use it in AVA to find similar notes ([see small demo](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25003283/213157399...)), but you can potentially use it to do anything that openai embeddings can do.

Right now it's really quite barebones and basically just abstracts the openai embeddings api & pinecone, but we're planning on making it easy to work with whatever database or auth mechanism.

You can have a look at the github repo here:

This plugin might do the trick: https://github.com/louis030195/obsidian-ava. I don`t use it myself, but there is a "Suggest Tags" command.

Obsidian AVA (summarization, write & rewrite)

Interestingly, I think this is actually related to the offline translation features built into Firefox. Both are products of "Project Bergamot", but the Mozilla-maintained version was later merged into the Firefox application:

https://browser.mt/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/training-efficient-neural-...

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

Extra webpage with screenshot and links, impossible to search for normally:

https://translatelocally.com/downloads/

Does one thing and does it well.

Oh— For downloading models, it's much easier to pipe/`xargs` `translateLocally --available-models` into `translateLocally -d` than go through the GUI.

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Other self-hostable translation tools:

https://www.apertium.org/index.eng.html

- Traditional rule-based translation. Seems to work pretty well, but no good desktop frontend.

https://www.argosopentech.com/

- Works, but crashy desktop app.

https://libretranslate.com/

- API wrapping Argos Translate.

https://lingva.thedaviddelta.com/

- Google Translate scraper/privacy frontend.

https://euroglot.com/

- Proprietary, subscription trialware.

Esperanto is eurocentric (sounds foreign for many people, in particular Asians),is poor in history and is spoken by a very small minority. SolarPunk should focus on local languages and multilingualism, to celebrate the local culture and inclusion, instead. AI translation should be part of SolarPunk as well. So, SolarPunks should consider learn a language that could help improve their local community e.g. immigrants or dying languages. They also should consider working or using open source AI translator (e.g. https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate).

Maybe check out libretranslate? https://libretranslate.com/

2g. Both the source text and the indirect text are then put into a translator. https://libretranslate.com/

LibreTranslate

Looking for a self-hosted alternative for DeepL & Co. Found a handful of older posts pointing at LibreTranslate.

Consider a free software alternative to this translation service, such as Argos Translate or its web based frontend LibreTranslate.