First of all, you will probably tell me that the best thing to do is to learn this language, well yes, obviously, the bad thing is that I am very lazy for this, I can only learn a few things in English and then I get overwhelmed haha.
That said, before I never used a translator as I was always in Spanish communities, until I started to diversify more and now I need one, I am currently using DeepL as it has been useful for jargons that I don’t know, for more privacy I use it through an API key to use it in Translate You, but I heard that their privacy policy is a bit murky…
I’ve also heard of Simplytranslate but I think it uses Google’s servers in the same way…
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Last I checked the highest quality widely used translator was deepl.com which is a commercial service that lets you translate only small snippets for free. To do larger ones you can upload them as pdf’s, which increases the size limits.
I’ve been using the local translator built into Firefox and it’s better than nothing, but it’s pretty rough compared to either google or DeepL.
I don’t think Kagi has its own translation service. They resell someone else’s.
For simple things, the local translation in Firefox has been more than enough. Go to
about:translations. It’s pretty limited compared to Google’s frankly impressive language list but I’ve used it almost exclusively since it’s added the languages I need to translate most frequently.Just a tip: this app implements the same offline translator from Firefox, and it allows also
- OCR detection and translator on picture
- translation of selected text in any app
You could share that on the best_fdroid_apps community maybe. Look pretty cool
That all looks good, but I wanted to specifically mention the most simple barebones and decent option that’s already included in software more of us use. I’d think if we’re installing more things we would be looking at something more powerful.
Libretranslate it’s self-hostable, too, if you’re into that sort of thing
I wish I had the equipment to do it…
Disroot run an instance at translate.disroot.org
Damn
Damn
It is poorly trained LLM garbage and you should not trust it at all. Or at least that was the state of it when I last tried it a few months ago. Here it is, hallucinating two completely different definitions for the same word (Georgian mountain name):
The most private translation program is one that is completely offline.
With Mozilla recently adding offline translation to Firefox people are able to incorporate it in separate programs like https://flathub.org/en/apps/dev.ters.LocalTranslateYou can try this: https://private.mt/
I was tempted by the extension, but it’s not available haha
I have found this one it is offline, no internet and for android.
https://github.com/DavidVentura/offline-translator
This is offline Text and image translation. And available on F-Droid.
