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feat: EXPERIMENTAL in-browser post translation#1788
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SHAcollision wants to merge 4 commits intodevfrom
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feat: EXPERIMENTAL in-browser post translation#1788SHAcollision wants to merge 4 commits intodevfrom
SHAcollision wants to merge 4 commits intodevfrom
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This PR introduces an EXPERIMENTAL "Translate" button on posts.
Very experimental, opening a PR here only to share with you guys. Not intending to merge it, but we could eventually polish and merge.
It uses the browser's built-in
LanguageDetectorandTranslatorAPIs to provide on-device translations.The feature automatically detects if a post's content is not in English and displays a "translate" button, allowing users to translate it.
The translation takes place in the user's browser using latest edge AI API recently presented by Google. There is no privacy concerns, data is always local. Translation quality is "acceptable" if the text is not difficult and has no typos. On first translation, the browser will fetch the language model, so it will take a few seconds showing the spinner.
Limitations
TODO
I leave these to you @flaviomoceri in case we decide we want to merge this feature:
esnext to the translate button.en