vitonsky

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[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you too πŸ‘

 

Hi everyone. I'm launching Linguist Translate, an open-source, full-featured translation solution with an embedded offline translator based on the Bergamot Project created by Mozilla.

Site: https://linguister.io

GitHub: https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist

Today, Linguist is launched on ProductHunt. Support the project who really care about privacy: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linguist-translate

Linguist is not just a wrapper over Google Translator like many other extensions. You can use any translation service with Linguist, thanks to custom translators! You may even deploy any machine translation (like LibreTranslate) on your localhost and then add this service to Linguist.

All features are included: text translation, full-page translation, selected text translation, Text-To-Speech, dictionary, history, and even more.

 

Hi everyone. I'm launching Linguist Translate, an open-source, full-featured translation solution with an embedded offline translator based on the Bergamot Project created by Mozilla.

Site: https://linguister.io

GitHub: https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist

Today, Linguist is launched on ProductHunt. Support the project who really care about privacy: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linguist-translate

Linguist is not just a wrapper over Google Translator like many other extensions. You can use any translation service with Linguist, thanks to custom translators! You may even deploy any machine translation (like LibreTranslate) on your localhost and then add this service to Linguist.

All features are included: text translation, full-page translation, selected text translation, Text-To-Speech, dictionary, history, and even more.

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Well, the Linguist is no have any public opinion. You are welcome to use the unique project who care about UX, and don't care about political views of their users.

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, decision logs is just a step to fix a problems with decision making. Logs highlight a problems in decision making process and let you analyze a problems in your team. You still need an strong architect who may say "hey team, why your arguments so weak? it looks you are low skill engineers. make arguments more objective, or you will be fired" and then really fire weak engineers in team.

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Exactly! I see how a mindset β€œwe delivered (shit) quickly” successfully reproduces itself, over and over in a lot of companies.

I think the actual reason is that business want to make money on promises right here right now. Business promises a lot of features to investors give money, and then business implement a lot of (shit) features. And then they continue kinda "okay, features broken, give us more money and we will fix it".

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

I hope you're right. The more people will save it, the more chances we have to find the source code later, or even find the community who will maintain the fork.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1927197

Hey everyone, check the Linguist

  • you can translate texts offline (with sent no one single byte to a Google and stay private)
  • a lot of features and flexible configuration
  • dictionary + history for learn languages
  • it is are hackable - you can write code to use your own translation service
[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, the links you needs:

A LibreTranslate may download a gigabytes data once, to get AI models for all language directions, then translation will runs on your computer

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can make a language request in a issues of repository https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/

You're right, resources are limited and a new languages appears not so fast as we wants. Maybe Chinese developers will collaborate and release their own models for a Bergamot. Work with community are important to achieve the goal when we want to unify translation.

If you really needs to be private for now, you can try to deploy your own offline translation server locally (e.g. with a https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate) and use this translator with Linguist as a custom translator.

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi, thank you, share it with your friends and colleagues to help Linguist become a mainstream tool for translation and replace a proprietary software who care about make money on product, not about quality and privacy.

For now Linguist no have feature to hide some languages, but recently used languages appears at top of the languages list. I think we have to show a current language (auto detected by text content) at top of languages too, to allow users see recently used languages immediately with no scrolling. For now you can enter language name in a keyboard when you open languages list.

Thanks for your comment, i've created issue to improve https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist/issues/389

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Share it with your friends if you like it. The people who improve their productivity so much to share it with their friends are motivates me a lot!

[–] vitonsky@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

If you don't try, you won't know πŸ˜‰

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