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Web Translator API

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97 points kozika | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 08:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.367s | source
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rhabarba ◴[25 Jun 25 09:33 UTC] No.44375303[source]▶
You had me at "Browser compatibility".
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Raed667 ◴[25 Jun 25 09:50 UTC] No.44375411[source]▶
Chrome embeds a small LLM (never stops being a funny thing) in the browser allowing them to do local translations.

I assume every browser will do the same as on-device models start becoming more useful.

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Asraelite ◴[25 Jun 25 11:07 UTC] No.44375891[source]▶
What's the easiest way to get this functionality outside of the browser, e.g. as a CLI tool?

Last time I looked I wasn't able to find any easy to run models that supported more than a handful of languages.

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1. deivid ◴[25 Jun 25 15:44 UTC] No.44378599[source]▶
You can use bergamot ( https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator ) with Mozilla's models ( https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models ).

Not the easiest, but easy enough (requires building).

I used these two projects to build an on-device translator for Android.