What do you use to translate languages?
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Of the "free as in freedom" options: Wiktionary and patience. DeepL is not FOSS, and I suppose most other similar sites aren't.
I've just looked up Wiktionary in Kiwix and it's available to download for offline use too. Just under 8GB.
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I just tried it out and it looks great. Do you have a subscription with them?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Agree and yes! I happily pay around 100€ annually. Comes with quite a few good perks
- unlimited access to probably one of the best search engines (for search-engine-literate folk it's not necessarily that you'll magically find better websites, but the quantity of garbage-/AI-websites will just be heavily reduced and you won't have the problem that the first three or so links will be ads/sponsorships; it makes searching just feel nicer)
- customisable search (for example, I can generally rank search results for pinterest lower or outright block them to not even have them show up in the first place and instead boost results from beehaw)
- customisable and privacy-respecting AI bots only if you want to use them (from what I could find out, the AI bots always start every new conversation with a blank slate of you, no matter how much you've used Kagi or the LLMs before)
- Kagi Small Web, which is an initiative to basically push the "alive internet theory" by highlighting small blogs and personal websites of a whole range of people
- Kagi Universal Summariser, which is an AI summariser that works very well on just about any text you give it and, for the articles and papers I threw at it, doesn't tend to hallucinate stuff
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dict.cc looks cool - thanks for the recommendation
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's ok ...
Beware it's not foss
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What are some good options for translating between spoken languages?
I use translator app its offline foss app on fdroid