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Web Translator API

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97 points kozika | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sfmz ◴[25 Jun 25 11:35 UTC] No.44376080[source]▶
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/translator-api

const translator = await Translator.create({ sourceLanguage: 'en', targetLanguage: 'fr', });

await translator.translate('Where is the next bus stop, please?');

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ks2048 ◴[25 Jun 25 15:16 UTC] No.44378311[source]▶
So, this is Google Translate built running locally in Chrome? I wonder if it is a small/degraded model or limited languages? Otherwise, how is it not a simple way around the paid Google API?
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1. sfmz ◴[25 Jun 25 15:40 UTC] No.44378552[source]▶
There's already ways to do translation locally in javascript with neural-nets running in WASM, this is just more convenient.

https://huggingface.co/Xenova/nllb-200-distilled-600M

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2. vitonsky ◴[26 Jun 25 06:38 UTC] No.44384757[source]▶
I tried to use this model in my package with translators kit https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112

It runs very slow. Test case that run translation for text in 3k chars multiple times, takes about 30 seconds for google translator, but more than 10 minutes for `nllb-200-distilled-600M`.

Text sample: https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112/files#diff-...

My tests runs on nodejs, it looks in browser it have no chance for real world use