LibreTranslate

[xarp]

LibreTranslate
Free and Open Source Machine Translation API, entirely self-hosted. Unlike other APIs, it doesn't rely on proprietary providers such as Google or Azure to perform translations. Instead, its translation engine is powered by the open source Argos Translate library.

https://libretranslate.com
https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate

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Seems like a nice addition to the app collection. Appears it would be a relatively simple integration. I'd love to see this as somebody who heavily uses translation services.

[micmc]

@xarp Indeed, that would be a very nice addition to the Cloudron offer.

[timconsidine]

@xarp interesting that LibreTranslate is integrated if you use the Min browser https://github.com/minbrowser/min

[mdrockwell]

I just logged in to suggest this too. I'd love to see it added!

[LoudLemur]

@xarp

How lovely to have the privacy to translate pages without using a Big Data company!

Censorship has also been circumvented by sharing links to a translated version of a website instead of linking directly.

To greatly leverage the utility of online translation, TTS (text-to-speech) generation, and even speech-to-text generation, is helpful. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) can help too, if text is embedded into an image.

There is a recent summary of self-hosted TTS tools here:

https://medevel.com/14-os-text-to-speech/

For OCR, Cloudron already supports (you people are amazing! ) paperless-ng. There is a summary of some tools here:

https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/open-source-ocr-tools/

Tesseract-ocr request:
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7257/tesseract-ocr-optical-character-recognition-on-cloudron

[nichu42]

@xarp
Another vote for LibreTranslate. It seems that Mastodon v4 now offers translation using the LibreTranslate API. So it would be sweet to have this running on the same server.

[jdaviescoates]

@nichu42 I spotted that too and came to say the same

[ioctl]

@nichu42 Yes, I would love that for this exact reason 🥹

[scooke]

Wouldn't this work if we install it on the VPS the Cloudron is on? It doesn't need Docker, so it's just a pip install, uses port 5000 which I think is untouched by Cloudron.
https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate

[xarp]

@scooke Applies to most things. But it is not recommended to install anything alongside Cloudron. Keep it clean or things could go wrong and then you've acted against best practices advisory.

[robi]

@scooke If you have full VPS server backups, try it.. if it doesn't work, you can always go back.

[nebulon]

This is now published as unstable. The new forum section is at https://forum.cloudron.io/category/156/libretranslate