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Optional 3rd party translation services?

Open ParaplegicRacehorse opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Are there plans to provide option to link translation to an online service, such as DeepL or IBM Watson or Apertium?

ParaplegicRacehorse avatar Jan 09 '21 15:01 ParaplegicRacehorse

Jorkens can currently send a highlighted passage to three online services, Amazon Translate, Google Translate, and Libre Translate -- see the machine translation menu.

I'm certainly open to adding more MT options, at least through a popup window for the respective web sites. It looks like that should be fairly easy to do at least for DeepL, unless I'm missing something. Actual API usage might depend on the sites' free tier limits, or how easy it is to use an individual user's local credentials, if that user chooses to pay; every site has its own authentication system. It looks like DeepL charges $7 a month for unlimited text translation for individuals. I'd have to think about whether I could afford to pay out of pocket for users' data access.

I found the Watson Language Translator demo site at https://www.ibm.com/demos/live/watson-language-translator/self-service/home, if that's what you meant.

I found the Apertium web interface at https://www.apertium.org (the link you gave was for the GitHub site). I think I should be able to link to that fairly easily. I'm not sure how many language combinations are supported.

I'll be away for a bit, but will look into this further when I get back.

mcthulhu avatar Jan 09 '21 20:01 mcthulhu

OK, I just added Apertium under the MT menu. I'm not impressed with the translation quality in my test, though.

mcthulhu avatar Jan 09 '21 20:01 mcthulhu