If providing personal information is a dealbreaker, choosing LibreTranslate is a somewhat decent alternative and can optionally be self-hosted.
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Thank you!
Self hosting would be ideal, but I’m not sure what URL to provide. Can I do it through my Umbrel somehow?
I’ve never used Umbrel but I don’t think there’s any first-party LibreTranslate integration with Umbrel. If I understand correctly, Umbrel is just a layer running on top of Linux, so if it allows you to run Docker and run arbitrary command line commands, you could just build LibreTranslate with Docker by following the README: https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate
You might need an Umbrel expert to help you through some of the steps though, especially with figuring out which URL and port to use.
wasn’t technically a deal breaker for me, but because my billing address is not exactly what the automated formatting address system that deepl does I couldn’t get a key… they did get back to me a month later and were like, change your billing address with your bank. I don’t tell this story to complain, just was an interesting technical limitation of their verification process.
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Same thing happened to me. I gave up.
it’s too bad because many native foreign language speakers say it’s pretty accurate
How good is chatGPT at translation?
Damn, I didn’t realize that DeepL limitation existed. I’ll look into integrating ChatGPT for translations as an alternative option.
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as only really a English speaker idk… but as a dyslexic I certain would love to put a openAI api key into a keyboard that is always correcting my grammar and making other suggestions.
It’s pretty good, I asked it to write a poem for me in Latin. It did very well.
I will not be committing to memory the crazy extra digits at the end of an zip code ex. 90210-xxxx to be able to check out online