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.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    22 days ago

    Well Firefox recently integrated a full webpage translation, fully done local on your system. It works pretty well in my experience.

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      22 days ago

      This. It’s slightly worse than Google Translate in my experience, but definitely usable and much better from a privacy perspective.

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    22 days ago

    Doesn’t Firefox natively offer translations?

    I often visit sites with Portuguese, Japanese and Swedish content and the browser offers to translate everything to English.

    As far as I am aware, the translation happens locally.

  • ghosttownenjoyer👻🌃@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    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