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niedev / RTranslator

Open source real-time translation app for Android that runs locally
Apache License 2.0
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Feature request #3

Closed Hx2-code closed 3 years ago

Hx2-code commented 3 years ago

Can you implement this library in your app? Google official api are costly so if you implement this library it would be free and unlimited text translation.

niedev commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, but I can't use it, practically this library exploits the Google translate site as API, but it's not a totally legitimate practice, as the developer himself says, it could be blocked at any time, it could be useful for some developer who wants do tests but it does not seem suitable for a product released to the public like mine. But in the future, if I will find some free API that works very well I could insert it as an option.

Hx2-code commented 3 years ago

Ok thanks for checking out.

I also found one more api.

niedev commented 3 years ago

Yeah, I know this API but unfortunately, it has the same problem as the first one (there is no possibility to use google APIs for free without using that technique), I have already found a promising API but I have to test it well (https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate). In any case, if you find other good APIs (I suggest you look for open-source APIs in case, because it is difficult for the proprietary ones to be legitimately free) you can write them here even after the issue is closed, when I have time I will evaluate them well, thanks 😁

Hx2-code commented 3 years ago

Yeah sure I will like to help.