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LibreTranslate – “Building the coolest translation software ” (github.com/libretranslate)
36 points by pjfin123 on June 12, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Its online mirrors[0] (which works without API keys) could be used as dictionary program to GoldenDict via LibreTranslate wrappers[1], so it may be used as a "LibreTranslate Desktop app" with a Scan Pop-up feature for translating any selected text in any app on PC.

(GoldenDict could be used as alternative GUI to Argos Translate engine's GUI[2] directly, but keep running engine on personal PC in offline may highly decreases PC performance)

JFTR, Here is "Google Translate Desktop app" implemented using GoldenDict + `bash` + single Shell-script.[3]

Alternatively, there is Python wrapper to GTranslate for GoldenDict.[4]

[0] https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate#mirrors

[1] https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate#language-bi...

[2] https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate#gui

[3] https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/GoldenDict-as-...

[4] https://github.com/xinebf/google-translate-for-goldendict


This is really cool! I was looking at all the supported modals, and it looks like they are all either to or from English. Does this mean that if I go from say, Korean to Japanese, it must use English as an intermediary? https://www.argosopentech.com/argospm/index/


Yes translations pivot through English.




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