Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by baobob on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:10PM (#31598484)

Do you know what the pipeline looks like for new language pairs being added? This is really, really, really awesome

I'm also immediately curious about using it headless outside the browser

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Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by jelmervdl on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:07PM (#31599231)

The training pipeline is also on Github! [1]

I was experimenting with running the wasm version of bergamot-translator (the translation engine used by the addon) in node [2].

However, if you want more performance, using the Python library [3] or the native C++ interface [4] gets you further because the wasm build is limited to a single thread and thus a blocking interface, and can't use all the processor specific optimisations that are in the native builds.

EDIT: Another option is using translateLocally [5], which is a Qt desktop app based on bergamot-translator. It has a native messaging API that is designed as a much faster alternative to the wasm build for browser extensions, but it can also be used from Python [6].

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-training

[2] https://gist.github.com/jelmervdl/a4c8b6b92ad88a885e1cbd51c6...

[3] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AHpgewVJBFaupwAbZq0...

[4] https://github.com/browsermt/bergamot-translator/blob/main/a...

[5] https://github.com/XapaJIaMnu/translateLocally

[6] https://github.com/XapaJIaMnu/translateLocally/blob/master/s...

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