Best foss full page translation app?
5mon 11d ago by lemmy.ml/u/marcie in opensource@lemmy.ml
Currently digging into a lot of foreign websites and am wondering what the best and most private way to translate a whole screen is. I use linux.
It does, and it works quite fine. :-)
I don't know of any, just commenting to keep track of this post and add engagement.
I heard about Argos Translate, which is used by libretranslate github link. It can be used for offline translations.
But I was unable to get it running locally on my machine to test it. As far as i know they translate by routing many different translators together, which may produce worse results (for example French -> English -> Chinese
It’s been awhile but I have liked using this since its European and has been tested with my buddy’s Argentine girlfriend about accuracy and a few of my discord buddy’s from Kuwait. https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407580229522-Translate-with-the-browser-extensions
This is a proprietary extension for a proprietary "service as a software substitute" program living on someone else's computer. It's about the furthest from free software/open source as you can get