From: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>
To: Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>,
Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: translation programm
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:32:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a5f2073-b47e-5a73-dcf1-0158531594fb@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875136d9-421f-4eee-9a0b-b6ebb812ac66@app.fastmail.com>
On 11/19/22 08:52, Philip McGrath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, at 7:55 AM, Wojtek Kosior via wrote:
>>>>> Is there a translation programm in Guix, you can use for offline
>>>>> translation?
>>>>
>>>> If you want to edit translation files in .po file format (as used by
>>>> Guix), I prefer https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PoMode that gets
>>>> mentioned in the Guix manual. Alternatively there exist other programs
>>>> for PO files, like GNOME Translation Editor (“guix install
>>>> gtranslator”).
>>> I think Francis is talking about something more like a combination of Google translation and bilingual dictionaries?
>>>
>>> If that's the case, I don't know of any options...
>> Neither do I know any particularly good tool. There was some work on
>> libre machine-learning-based translation engines, but the last time I
>> checked, none of them was actually usable to me - none supported Polish
>> and all had deps that were not available from APT (I was not yet using
>> Guix at that time).
>>
> On these lines, the best option I’m aware of is the relatively new Mozilla Translate: https://github.com/mozilla/translate
>
> I don’t think it’s been packaged for Guix yet, but I don’t know of any reason why it couldn’t be. The front-end demonstrated at https://mozilla.github.io/translate downloads language support files on-demand, but I think it could be patched to also package the models. Language support is not comprehensive, but it does include Polish.
>
> Some of the underlying work is grouped under the Bergamot project: https://browser.mt Much of the substantive source code seems to be at: https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator I think it would be easy (but I haven’t tried) to write a front-end in GTK, Qt, or similar instead of the HTML+JS front-end.
>
> Philip
>
Another option is libretranslate. There's a web version, and the source
code is FOSS and suitable for Guix IMO.
https://libretranslate.com/
https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-19 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-18 20:54 translation programm Francis
2022-11-19 11:36 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-11-19 11:56 ` Luis Felipe
2022-11-19 12:55 ` Wojtek Kosior via
2022-11-19 13:52 ` Philip McGrath
2022-11-19 19:32 ` kiasoc5 [this message]
2022-11-21 11:44 ` Gottfried
2022-11-21 11:57 ` Wojtek Kosior via
[not found] <mailman.296.1668862551.1204.help-guix@gnu.org>
2022-11-19 17:19 ` Gottfried
2022-11-19 17:38 ` Wojtek Kosior via
2022-11-20 11:49 ` Gottfried
2022-11-19 22:44 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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