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Re:Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app by owenpalmer on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @09:51PM (#40723994)
The UI is nice and clean, but I don't have a secondary device to test out the conversation mode. A video demo of how this works would be nice.

The first translation I tried was incorrect:

"Bonjour" (french) -> "- How are you ?" (english)

I suppose that's the limitation of local models.

Great job getting it to a functional beta though. I think the idea is cool, it just needs some polishing.

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Re:Show HN: I made an open source and local translation app by niedev on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:47AM (#40725533)
Yeah, for short inputs the models are not that precise, but for long and complicated ones they work quite good, probably NLLB has been trained with very few short texts.
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