I'm very impressed with the quality of the Firefox Translations. They're not perfect by any means, but the results are more than good enough for something that's running locally on my mobile. I just tested Ukrainian to Spanish with the article below:

https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/ce3xe35zl6po

#Firefox #FirefoxTranslations #Mozilla

My god is Firefox Translate a hot mess.

A page can be 99% Greek but has three or four loanwords in English so the auto detect doesn't work - and then for some reason you have to click four times in the hamburger menu to force it to translate, rather than just click an always-present toolbar icon.

Somehow it can take 20 seconds to translate a hundred words of text, which is about the speed I can do it at, and the translation is often unusable anyway.

And god, put in an 'always translate *to*' option so I can stop clicking on the only language I would ever want anything translated to every time I translate something.

#firefox #FirefoxTranslations

Recommended #opensource #offline #translation #addon: #FirefoxTranslations

Why? - Decent in-place, offline translation for web pages · Also works in #LibreWolf · Supports #Spanish #Estonian #English #German #Czech #Bulgarian #Portuguese #Italian #French #Polish · Experimental #Russian #Persian (Farsi) #Icelandic #Norwegian (Nynorsk, Bokmål) #Ukrainian #Dutch · Downloads language models upon first use

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/

More recommendations: https://tuxwise.net/recommended-software/

I've just released Speech Note 4.0!
New version comes with shiny new offline machine Translator and many new Text to Speech voices.

To implement the Translator I borrowed some code and models from amazing #BergamotProject and #FirefoxTranslations.

#SpeechNote is a Linux offline #SpeechToText, #TextToSpeech and #MachineTranslation app. You can download it from #Flathub

Videos:
#Linux Desktop: https://youtu.be/psRT0UPFb04
#PinePhone: https://youtu.be/kTsM3kUxE2Q
#SailfishOS: https://youtu.be/88cdPpvBmmI

Oh, very cool.

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/16/firefox-users-get-a-native-translation-option-soon/

Til now, i've been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/ , which works well, albeit has a clunky UI. This apparently next-gen advance on the AO, baked-in via #aboutconfig, & enabling both the options per article, is elegant & effective, using https://linuxnews.de/ as my guinea pig. Nice; another AO now redundant.

#FirefoxTranslations #FirefoxNightly

Firefox Translations is now available.
The add-on allows all Firefox users to translate websites and texts in the browser without having to send the data to an external server.

Another step to more privacy.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/

#FirefoxTranslations #Firefox #Mozilla #Translations #Translator #Privacy #Internet #website