LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API
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Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. 100% self-hosted, no limits, no ties to proprietary services. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.

I always used translation applications on my phone, when I still used google services the oblivious choice was google translate, but after learning what google does, I traded one evil for the other and turned to the Microsoft app.

I tried several app’s open source but none were 100% effective, when I saw a post on this site, open source, the first thing I did was put an icon for the site on my phone, I gave up all applications.

It is very good this project and everyone should support, good initiatives like this are worth a lot in the days running away from BigTech.

  • Talkless
    7·
    4 years ago

    running away from BigTech

    Absolutely! Though none of my needed languages are supported :-/ .

  • Thyristor
    4·
    4 years ago

    This is actually a pretty good improvement compared to google translate. I made a couple of tries from english to portuguese and got results in european portuguese. Google always defaults to brazilian portuguese and it sticks out like a sore thumb while reading it in Europe, even from short simple sentences.

  • Atahualpa
    4·
    4 years ago

    Very happy to learn about this!

    One issue I found, it doesn’t accept single words in french

    Cat -> Cat

    If I use multiple words it’s fine

    the cat -> le chat

  • IngrownMink4
    4·
    4 years ago

    I’m using Deepl right now. Good to know that there is a true FLOSS translator, so I will use this instead of Deepl. Thanks :D

  • lorabe
    3·
    4 years ago

    it’s pretty good, i have noticed some inconsistencies compared to google translate, but it’s usable.

  • pescetarian
    2·
    4 years ago

    What about the keyboard for smartphone?! Not using Google keyboard or Microsoft SwiftKey any open source project exist?!