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Firefox is getting language translation

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Re: Firefox is getting language translation

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Post by gauMah »

amirmasoudabdol wrote: post #4

While this is great, I like to give a shout out to DeepL Translator [1]. I'm not affiliated with them but I like to recommend them to people who like to step out of Google ecosystem. I am using DeepL for about a year now and I mostly use it for NL EN, DE EN. So far, I never felt that the translation is off, or terrible, and if not better in some cases, it's as good as Google Translator. [1]: https://www.deepl.com/tra…

I have used it for translating several academic writeups, including proposals and papers from English to German. It works like a charm. Also, translates German official letters from banks and government, to English pretty well.

Re: Firefox is getting language translation

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Post by reacweb »

amirmasoudabdol wrote: post #4

While this is great, I like to give a shout out to DeepL Translator [1]. I'm not affiliated with them but I like to recommend them to people who like to step out of Google ecosystem. I am using DeepL for about a year now and I mostly use it for NL EN, DE EN. So far, I never felt that the translation is off, or terrible, and if not better in some cases, it's as good as Google Translator. [1]: https://www.deepl.com/tra…

I use it since 2 years, mainly for French->English and occasionaly for English->French. I love it. It understand very well idioms and propose excellent translations. Even for traduction of single words, it is far better than google.

Re: Firefox is getting language translation

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Post by anxiousguy »

geraltofrivia wrote: post #29

I have a habit of recommending FF to my colleagues. We're based in Germany, and many of us are non-natives. On-page translation is the most common reasons they stick to Chrome. I hope when this is included in a stable release, it'll convince some of them to make the shift.

We're in the same boat. Luckily, I've found an extension that does a decent job, similar to Chrome's in-page translation.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/translate-who...

Re: Firefox is getting language translation

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Post by mrweasel »

hans1729 wrote: post #8

Wow, I didn't think that people actually use on-site-translation. I know that translation became a lot better (using deepl [0] personally, check it out if you haven't heard of it!) in recent years, but on-site-translation always seemed quite goofy to me. I wonder if this caters more to a broader (elder) audience, making Firefox more attractive to less tech-affine folks? Seems like a critical feature for "your grantpa…

Honestly I hope Mozilla will allow me to disable onsite translation to the point where I wouldn't know it's available.

I'm sure it's a nice feature to lots of people, but I never want to see it. It's just another annoyance that I don't wish to deal with. Dealing with multiple language is still something browsers and websites struggle with. Yes, I know I have a Danish IP, and my language settings is British English, but just give me the original Swedish version of the content it's FINE.

Much more useful feature, for my use case, would be language detection of input fields, so I don't have to switch between dictionaries to get the right spellchecker.

Re: Firefox is getting language translation

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Post by romanovcode »

jplayer01 wrote: post #22
hans1729 wrote: post #8

Wow, I didn't think that people actually use on-site-translation. I know that translation became a lot better (using deepl [0] personally, check it out if you haven't heard of it!) in recent years, but on-site-translation always seemed quite goofy to me. I wonder if this caters more to a broader (elder) audience, making Firefox more attractive to less tech-affine folks? Seems like a critical feature for "your grantpa…

I'm not sure why you'd come to the conclusion that nobody uses on-site translation. Have you never visited a non-English site that you wanted to read/navigate but couldn't? Even if the translation isn't perfect, or even great, it's better than understanding 0 words and it's more than enough to navigate a page or to capture the essence of an article. It isn't a daily occurrence for me, but it happens often enough that…

My guess is that he/she is from US and never has the need to visit non-US websites.

Re: Firefox is getting language translation

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Post by Vinnl »

amirmasoudabdol wrote: post #4

While this is great, I like to give a shout out to DeepL Translator [1]. I'm not affiliated with them but I like to recommend them to people who like to step out of Google ecosystem. I am using DeepL for about a year now and I mostly use it for NL EN, DE EN. So far, I never felt that the translation is off, or terrible, and if not better in some cases, it's as good as Google Translator. [1]: https://www.deepl.com/tra…

As far as I've seen that doesn't support translating web pages other than copy-pasting the text you want to translate... Unless I'm missing something. So HN, tell me, how do I get to that functionality, if it's there?

Re: Firefox is getting language translation

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Post by fireattack »

antaviana wrote: post #18
oska wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and possibly even better It is better. Google is now just a sluggish tech bully and only shows world-beating performance through acquisitions (such as, sadly, their acquisition of DeepMind). The Google of 1999 - that a lot of us thrilled to - is long dead.

I am in the translation business, and although we do not use MT so far for the verticals we focus on, perhaps what shocks me most is Deepl Alexa 90-day trend [0]. It is so smooth it seems faked. [0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/deepl.com

Never heard of that website so I give it a try.

It says "[t]ranslate from any language", but doesn't seem to support Chinese or Japanese at all.

To me, translating other Western languages to English is never a problem. I can use any half-decent online translation services and the result is totally understandable.

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