Crow Translate

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 14 de juliol del 2024, a les 2:31:00 (CEST), Kevin Kofler va 
escriure:
> Hennadii Chernyshchyk wrote:
> > Regardless of the warning. I think that the only translation engine that
> > fully respects privacy is LibreTranslate.
> > But it doesn't support automatic language detection and can't do TTS. It's
> > also disabled on the main Mozhi instance (instances can disable specific
> > engines if they want).
> > So I can add a warning, but there is not much to choose from :(
> > Do you still think it's a good idea?
> 
> The issue is inherently that your application is relying on a web service
> (Mozhi) to do the translations. That service then either forwards the
> requests to yet another (typically proprietary) web service (e.g., Google
> Translate) or to something local to the Mozhi server instance (e.g., a
> LibreTranslate instance running on the same server as the Mozhi instance).
> In the first case, there are two services that see your data, in the second
> case, there is still one service that sees your data and that you have to
> trust.
> 
> The only thing that is guaranteed to be privacy-friendly is to run (either
> as a separate process or embedded as a library) a local instance of
> something like LibreTranslate (or Argos Translate directly) or Bergamot (or
> Marian directly) on the same device as your application. And libmozhi is
> probably not the library you would want to use for that (though technically
> I guess you could theoretically run and point libmozhi to a local Mozhi
> instance and in turn point that to a local LibreTranslate instance).
> 
> As for:
> > But it doesn't support automatic language detection and can't do TTS.
> 
> there are separate libraries for that.
> 
> For automatic language detection, see, e.g., cld2 or cld3, or one of several
> Python or Perl modules.
> 
> For TTS, see eSpeak NG (or its library libespeakng) if you want something
> simple and compact that supports many languages out of the box, or one of
> the local modern AI-based TTS tools (Mozilla TTS, OpenAI Whisper, etc.) if
> you want something that sounds better.
> 
> And, while you did not ask for it, for STT, there is the old PocketSphinx,
> the newer Mozilla DeepSpeech, etc.
> 
> The Free Software implementations that you can run locally all focus on
> doing one thing well, not on offering a complete solution like the Google
> Translate web service does. Integrating that all into a complete solution is
> then your job as the application developer.

You're asking them to do a totally different application of the application 
that they are doing, that makes no sense.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
>         Kevin Kofler