vosk-browser vs firefox-translations-models

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vosk-browser		firefox-translations-models
	Project
3	Mentions	5
330	Stars	146
-	Growth	6.2%
0.0	Activity	7.4
4 months ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

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vosk-browser

Posts with mentions or reviews of vosk-browser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-15.

Show HN: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2022

Not the OP but I've been tinkering with the same concept (24/7 processing).
'm using vosk browser: https://github.com/ccoreilly/vosk-browser
To do speech to text locally and it works very well for English.
Speech-to-Text Client-Side?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2022
On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2022

I believe this is called the Bergamot project, more can be found here: https://browser.mt/
The GitHub repo for it is here: https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator
The repo contains some details about how to run it in WASM which is quite interesting for embedding it in pages. I've been playing around with using WASM to capture speech to text (https://github.com/ccoreilly/vosk-browser) and automatically translating it using Bergamot.
Results have been, ok. I don't think the tech is quite there yet and the speech to text obviously struggles with multiple speakers.

firefox-translations-models

Posts with mentions or reviews of firefox-translations-models. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-08.

Official Firefox add-on bringing offline translation support to Firefox
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2022
Firefox Translations 1.1.3 now support French and had all critical bugs fixed!
1 project | /r/firefox | 27 Jul 2022

Planned languages are listed on GitHub but there's no specific roadmap.
On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2022
Firefox Translations is now available!
4 projects | /r/firefox | 30 Jun 2022

Bergamot supports English and French, but the add-on does not even have French in development. Why? That seems like a major omission.
Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vosk-browser and firefox-translations-models you can also consider the following projects:

cheetah - On-device streaming speech-to-text engine powered by deep learning

bergamot-translator - Cross platform C++ library focusing on optimized machine translation on the consumer-grade device.

vosk-api - Offline speech recognition API for Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node

marian-dev - Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++ - development repository

vosk-server - WebSocket, gRPC and WebRTC speech recognition server based on Vosk and Kaldi libraries

marian-dev - Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++ - development repository

ovos-stt-plugin-vosk - vosk STT plugin for mycroft

lingva-translate - Alternative front-end for Google Translate

react-native-vosk - Speech recognition module for react native using Vosk library

firefox-translations - Firefox Translations is a webextension that enables client side translations for web browsers.

haven - Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy, through an Android app and on-device sensors

translateLocally - Fast and secure translation on your local machine, powered by marian and Bergamot.