Alternatives, yes... GOOD alternatives, no. The rest of the industry is 5 to 10 years behind Google as they leveraged their services to train AI Translation before others and have all the refined data to go with that for many more languages than even AI Competition. The one hope and genuine AI Trasheap is that competitors can catch up faster.
If it's purely a degoogling question, deepl.com translation is very good, though idk how private it is. For privacy, the built-in Firefox translation is crappy but usable if you're just trying to get meanings of things. IDK if it's available (or easy to separate) as an outside-of-browser CLI utility.
Oh thanks, that's interesting. A quick click shows it's a GUI program while we already have Firefox for that, so I'd hope for a simple CLI program that converts one text file to another. In fact it might even be interesting to connect it with Pandoc. I'll look into it. Nice!
Full sentence translators? Only ones that come to mind are LibreTranslate, plus if you'd like to try, the instance from Mastodon.Uno's group since the LibreTranslate dev team's official instance requires an API key. Also maybe local LLMs if you trust they won't go rogue and connect to open wifis like LG TVs do, or if you can ensure they won't escape containment.
Furthermore, if you just need to translate individual words or some times smaller expressions, there's disc-based translators and dictionaries though they usually require older systems, maybe Google Play ones (specially paid ones) if you keep them in an offline VM with Vanilla Android, QuickDic on F-Droid, etc. For CD and offline dictionaries, I collect them, so I can also comment on specific ones or on specific language combos.
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xxtbwyb5z5bdvy2f6l2yquu5qilgkjeewno4qfknvb3lkg3nmoklitid.onion/
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in reply to solrize • •Fortunately it is now available as a standalone app for Android and Linux:
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in reply to A404 • • •Full sentence translators? Only ones that come to mind are LibreTranslate, plus if you'd like to try, the instance from Mastodon.Uno's group since the LibreTranslate dev team's official instance requires an API key. Also maybe local LLMs if you trust they won't go rogue and connect to open wifis like LG TVs do, or if you can ensure they won't escape containment.
Furthermore, if you just need to translate individual words or some times smaller expressions, there's disc-based translators and dictionaries though they usually require older systems, maybe Google Play ones (specially paid ones) if you keep them in an offline VM with Vanilla Android, QuickDic on F-Droid, etc. For CD and offline dictionaries, I collect them, so I can also comment on specific ones or on specific language combos.
GitHub - LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate: Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup.
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