Web Translator API
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Web Translator API
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Re: Web Translator API
#2You had me at "Browser compatibility".
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#3While this might be useful, be mindful:
- it's experimental
- the "specification" is nowhere near a standards track: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/translation-api/
Of course it's already shipped in Chrome, and now Chrome pretends that its own Chrome-only API is somehow standard. Expect people on HN to blame other browsers for not shipping this.
Re: Web Translator API
#4This gives strong IE vibes.
Re: Web Translator API
#5You had me at "Browser compatibility".
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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#6You had me at "Browser compatibility".
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.
While I appreciate the on-device approach for a couple of reasons, it is rather ironic that Mozilla needs to document that for them.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
While I appreciate the on-device approach for a couple of reasons, it is rather ironic that Mozilla needs to document that for them.
Firefox also has on-device translations for what its worth.
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#8Can we please NOT autotranslate the web? I have yet to find a site where the quality of autotranslate does not make me stop using that site. I was already irritated when google started to show me de.wikipedia.org articles adespite me explicitly searching for the english article name. Then came Etsy, where the autotranslate quality was so bad I stopped using the site altogether.
Re: Web Translator API
#9You had me at "Browser compatibility".
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.
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.