Firefox 70 released [LWN.net]

Firefox 70 released

Posted Oct 23, 2019 9:13 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Firefox 70 released by rsidd
Parent article: Firefox 70 released

I think if Mozilla could have integrated Google Translate into Firefox, they would have. I suspect Google would ask them to pay a lot of money for that API key.

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Firefox 70 released

Posted Oct 25, 2019 9:54 UTC (Fri) by kilobyte (subscriber, #108024) [Link] (4 responses)

They made an OFF-LINE translator, which is worlds better. Besides working without network, it ensures privacy -- Google reads every single document you want translated.

Firefox 70 released

Posted Oct 25, 2019 10:41 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (3 responses)

It is not offline. The very name DeepL suggests a deep network at their end.

Firefox 70 released

Posted Oct 25, 2019 11:33 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

> It is not offline. The very name DeepL suggests a deep network at their end.

You are incorrect. They are going to be using Bergamot

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-get-page-transla...

"Instead of relying on cloud-based text translation services (like Google Translate, Bing Translator, or Yandex.Translate), Firefox will use a client-side, machine learning-based translation library."

Firefox 70 released

Posted Oct 25, 2019 11:41 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

Sorry, misread the thread context. I thought you were talking about DeepL (referred to elsewhere) and whether it's better than Google Translate (debatable). But good offline translation is going to be... a challenge.

Firefox 70 released

Posted Oct 26, 2019 23:43 UTC (Sat) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

There is Apertium for open source offline translation, but it isn't using ML and is not as anywhere near as good as Google/etc

https://www.apertium.org/