I’ve been trying to move away from Google Translate, it’s so good though. Any adequate open source alternatives? Bonus points if it has a phrasebook and if I can import mine from Google.
Libretranslate is FOSS and you can even selfhost it.
Then there is Translate you, it uses multiple engines 🐱
similar to these, there is monocles translator (monocles translation a safe and private translator)
Monocles Translator is a fork of Translate You and I wasn’t able to tell what it changes.
yes, they seem to be identical 🤷
My opinion is the best translation program:
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Firefox Translations provides automated translation of web content. Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally, on the client-side, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Firefox Translations was developed with The Bergamot Project Consortium. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
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Desktop version of Bergamot MT: https://translatelocally.com/ translateLocally is a privacy focussed machine translation application which translates content privately and securely on the user’s own computer.
Not open source but privacy friendly:
Brave Translate (Lingvanex) https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/8963107404813-How-do-I-use-Brave-Translate-
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https://www.deepl.com/translator has web interface and standalone application for any system
not open source, but works really well
Their privacy policy explicitly says that everything you put in it will be used for train there algorithms. So, if the only goal is avoid Google as such - deepl is ok, if the goal is avoid “leaking” of you data - it is not a good alternative.
ok, that’s fair point
Lingva Translate is a privacy friendly front-end for Google Translate (similar to invidious for YouTube): https://github.com/TheDavidDelta/lingva-translate
Ex. pub instance: https://lingva.lunar.icu/
