Fast and secure translation on your local machine with a GUI

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  • translateLocally

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

  • firefox-translations

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

  • 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.

    ---

    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.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • argos-translate

    Open-source offline translation library written in Python

  • 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.

    ---

    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.

  • lingva-translate

    Alternative front-end for Google Translate

  • 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.

    ---

    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.

  • LibreTranslate

    Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.

  • 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.

    ---

    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.

  • bergamot-translator

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

  • 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.

    ---

    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.

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