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Translator app recommendations? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been trying to move away from Google Translate, it's so good though. Any adequate open source alternatives? Bonus points if it has a phrasebook and if I can import mine from Google.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Libretranslate is FOSS and you can even selfhost it.

Then there is Translate you, it uses multiple engines 🐱

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

similar to these, there is monocles translator (monocles translation a safe and private translator)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Monocles Translator is a fork of Translate You and I wasn't able to tell what it changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yes, they seem to be identical 🤷

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My opinion is the best translation program:

Firefox Translations provides automated translation of web content. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally, on the client-side, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Firefox Translations was developed with The Bergamot Project Consortium. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
Desktop version of Bergamot MT: https://translatelocally.com/ translateLocally is a privacy focussed machine translation application which translates content privately and securely on the user's own computer.

Not open source but privacy friendly:

Brave Translate (Lingvanex) https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/8963107404813-How-do-I-use-Brave-Translate-

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://www.deepl.com/translator has web interface and standalone application for any system

not open source, but works really well

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Their privacy policy explicitly says that everything you put in it will be used for train their algorithms. So, if the only goal is avoiding Google as such - deepl is ok, if the goal is avoiding of "leaking" of your data - it is not a good alternative.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

ok, that's fair point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lingva Translate is a privacy friendly front-end for Google Translate (similar to invidious for YouTube): https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate

Ex. pub instance: https://lingva.lunar.icu/