This looks cool: #mozilla has released an add-on for #firefox that can do web page #translation *locally* instead of sending data to the cloud.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/
Based on Project Bergamot and implemented in WebAssembly
@brion Yeah - it's one of those things like speech recognition that ideally should have always have been local, but the processing and data just wasn't there yet
@KelsonV What? The add-on already exists? Awesome!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/
It'd be really great though if I could highlight snippets and translate, rather than rely on the add-on to "know" whether or not to present itself to me and try to translate the whole dang page.
@aspensmonster @KelsonV I guess you should file an issue for that
Looks like I'm not the only one that would like that feature:
@aspensmonster @KelsonV There's a button in the bar to activate it .. but yeah, "translate this text I have right now" would be a nice addition.
So far, it has been working well for me!
#firefox #translate
@KelsonV I've tried it, but had to uninstall as the toolbar is too wide for my laptop.
This is the reported issue [ https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/issues/245 ]
@sohkamyung Ugh...makes me wonder how the UI passed QA.
@KelsonV yes, please stop sending me words. there are too many
@KelsonV Fucking NICE!
@KelsonV oh that's neat!