Translate Service for chatting

SchildiChat / SchildiChat-android

Matrix client / Element Android fork

https://schildi.chat/android/

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Translate Service for chatting #147

Open AnisTaluqdar opened 1 year ago

AnisTaluqdar commented 1 year ago

If you can add the Google Translate service it will be amazing as https://imem.app/ they add for telegram client.

It's really helpful when it comes to chatting with outside the world who don't know English.

SpiritCroc commented 1 year ago

As long as there is no reasonable way to do something like this with FOSS-only components, no.

SpiritCroc commented 1 year ago

(I'm not really motivated to look into it if there is a feasible FOSS-approach, but I guess I can make this open-for-contributions though)

lfom commented 1 year ago

Possible FOSS alternatives:

Lingva Translate: instances should offer free API access (translation actually isn't done by FOSS tho, it's something like Piped or Invidous), can be self hosted:

https://github.com/thedaviddelta/lingva-translate

LibreTranslate: can be self hosted, has a paid API access option:

https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate

williamkray commented 1 year ago

translation shouldn't be part of the client, there are bots that do this and can be added to rooms to assist with translation.

SpiritCroc commented 1 year ago

Hosting a translation service on SchildiChat servers is out-of-scope for us. If we'd add something that requires server access, I may only accept it if:

users are fully able to self-host if they want to
you can configure it per-room (otherwise it would leak message contents and break any end-to-end-encryption for all your chats, instead of only those where it makes sense to you to leak contents)

Anyways, since I'm not interested in maintaining such feature, I'd probably only accept something with a low code footprint, e.g. by use of some well maintained library and/or APIs to query (maybe there's something similar to how UnifiedPush allows you to choose a distributor?).

AnisTaluqdar commented 1 year ago

what about https://libretranslate.com/ ? Is still self hosted?

or maybe https://github.com/thedaviddelta/lingva-translate or this https://github.com/crow-translate/crow-translate

lfom commented 1 year ago

For single message translation I think Lingva would be a good option, the API key could be added/edited in Schildi settings. For full automatic chat translation, then probably a bot is a better idea, and riskier too.

AnisTaluqdar commented 1 year ago

possible design

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/41234183/230149031-2bf43922-1ccd-4621-ab80-7300a7880f38.mp4