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Most AI translation tools rely on cloud services.

Audio leaves your device, gets processed elsewhere, and comes back translated.

As open speech recognition, translation, and TTS models continue to improve, it feels increasingly possible to build communication tools that run on infrastructure users actually control.

That's one of the ideas behind PolyTalk, an open-source translation platform we're building.

Privacy, ownership, and transparency may soon matter as much as model quality.

Do you think communication tools like translation, transcription, and speech interfaces will eventually move back toward local and self-hosted deployments?

GitHub: https://github.com/PolyTalkIO/polytalk

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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Post title is clickbait. It should contain the name of the program. Really this is not YouTube... Also why is every sentence its own paragraph?

Sorry for being this negative, nothing against the project, just against this post that looks like something out of a marketing team to me.

Fair point. I was trying to focus on the broader topic rather than lead with the project, but I can see why that might come across as marketing-style framing.

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