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Re:Web Translator API by sfmz on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:40AM (#44378552)
There's already ways to do translation locally in javascript with neural-nets running in WASM, this is just more convenient.

https://huggingface.co/Xenova/nllb-200-distilled-600M

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Re:Web Translator API by vitonsky on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:38AM (#44384757)
I tried to use this model in my package with translators kit https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112

It runs very slow. Test case that run translation for text in 3k chars multiple times, takes about 30 seconds for google translator, but more than 10 minutes for `nllb-200-distilled-600M`.

Text sample: https://github.com/translate-tools/core/pull/112/files#diff-...

My tests runs on nodejs, it looks in browser it have no chance for real world use

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