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Best foss full page translation app? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Currently digging into a lot of foreign websites and am wondering what the best and most private way to translate a whole screen is. I use linux.

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[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I heard about Argos Translate, which is used by libretranslate github link. It can be used for offline translations.

But I was unable to get it running locally on my machine to test it. As far as i know they translate by routing many different translators together, which may produce worse results (for example French -> English -> Chinese