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Hello all! I'm looking for a good alternative to Google Translate. I would prefer one that isn't using a modern LLM, but I understand if that's not possible. I would also like it to not be collecting personal data.

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[โ€“] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Firefox's built in translator from Project Bergamot is made by a co-operation of several European universities and Mozilla. It's a local LLM that you download so the translation never leaves your computer. You can translate whole pages with it or select text and right click and "Translate selection". The only problem is that if you had some raw text you copied from somewhere. You'd need to go to some pastebin site, paste the text, select it and translate selection. I guess it's not that inconvenient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Bergamot https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/translations/resources/03_bergamot.html https://bergamot.mt/

There used to be a desktop version somewhere but I couldn't get it to work. You can run the wasm version from their git repo maybe