Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 3, 2022 18:01 UTC (Fri) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)
In reply to: Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin by rsidd
Parent article: Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

> on some supported languages, it seems about as good as Google Translate, and done on your computer not via the cloud

Google Translate can work offline as well. The Android app, at least, supports downloading data packs for specific languages and can use it to translate text, audio, and images without an Internet connection.

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Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 5, 2022 4:17 UTC (Sun) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (1 responses)

Certainly google translate's technology does not require a huge compute cloud for the user. But do you trust google apps with your privacy? I certainly don't.

Mozilla releases a machine-translation plugin

Posted Jun 5, 2022 15:03 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

I had forgotten that this is possible on android. But it is not sufficiently transparent. Indeed, once you are back online you don't know what is being sent upstream.

Competition is good. I hope the offline translation space improves.