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Machine Translation LOCALLY on Your Computer!

This looks cool: Mozilla has released a translation tool as an add-on for Firefox that can do web page translation locally instead of sending data to the cloud! It’s based on Project Bergamot and implemented in WebAssembly.

Mozilla's blog post

Firefox add-on

Project Bergamot

IMO translation is one of those things like speech recognition that ideally should have always have been local (for obvious privacy reasons), but the processing and data just wasn’t there yet when Google Translate and similar services launched.

—Kelson Vibber, 2022-06-02

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