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I’ve been using DeepL for a few months and love the translation quality but it’s language support is more restrictive than others.

I built something for myself today that uses DeepL when it’s best and GCP/AWS otherwise. I also made some efficiency improvements to use less input characters when possible.

Would anyone be interested in using this? I could probably offer it at cost but it’s not cheap.
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nobody 2y ago

I'm very excited about the fact that translation is becoming local to devices. Amethyst uses ML Kit to do this. Some of the translations are pretty funny/bad but as the models improve and more and more devices have ML accelerators, I don't think this will remain an issue for long.

I also have an libretranslate endpoint that can be used without API keys at translate.thesamecat.io

It isn't the best, but you can configure Damus to use it, and I do on iOS.

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Mazin 2y ago

Nice! Thanks for running it. Mine is setup as libretranslate compatible as well so works in Damus. I do think running models locally is ideal but the centralized services have a big edge in accuracy atm.

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nobody 2y ago

Very much so. Larger model and more power. But it is getting better for sure. Google Translate allows you to download individual languages for offline use (on Pixel at least, I imagine is true on other androids)

I would love to see them open licence those models. Google bad, and all that, but we occasionally get lucky with them.