I've been trying to move away from Google Translate, it's so good though. Any adequate open source alternatives? Bonus points if it has a phrasebook and if I can import mine from Google.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    https://www.deepl.com/translator has web interface and standalone application for any system

    not open source, but works really well

    • gelberhut@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      Their privacy policy explicitly says that everything you put in it will be used for train their algorithms. So, if the only goal is avoiding Google as such - deepl is ok, if the goal is avoiding of "leaking" of your data - it is not a good alternative.

  • barusu@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Lingva Translate is a privacy friendly front-end for Google Translate (similar to invidious for YouTube): https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate

    Ex. pub instance: https://lingva.lunar.icu/

  • Quatta@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My opinion is the best translation program:

    1. Firefox Translations provides automated translation of web content. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally, on the client-side, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Firefox Translations was developed with The Bergamot Project Consortium. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

    2. Desktop version of Bergamot MT: https://translatelocally.com/ translateLocally is a privacy focussed machine translation application which translates content privately and securely on the user's own computer.

    Not open source but privacy friendly:

    Brave Translate (Lingvanex) https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/8963107404813-How-do-I-use-Brave-Translate-