Inline translation on toots #15

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eureka · 2022-11-17T17:19:53Z

eureka commented

2022-11-17 17:19:53 +00:00

I know it's going to be a bit difficult to implement, but having an easily accessible 'Translate toot' button is a very useful feature, and I've seen a handful of toots mention it recently.

To avoid using up API credits doing translations for every single post, we should probably just detect the language used in the toot and store it. If the tagged language differs from the user's locally configured language, show a translate link at the bottom of the tootl.

Google has a language detection extension to their translation api:
https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/detecting-language

Presumably Bing and other common translation APIs also offer the same. Alternatively, we can also do the same (to a much less reliable extent) by tokenizing the toot and comparing against lists of the most frequent words of each (supported) language (maybe against an existing simple list, like what's in /usr/share/dict). This can probably be done at toot ingest time and stored along with the toot.

I know it's going to be a bit difficult to implement, but having an easily accessible 'Translate toot' button is a very useful feature, and I've seen a handful of toots mention it recently. To avoid using up API credits doing translations for every single post, we should probably just detect the language used in the toot and store it. If the tagged language differs from the user's locally configured language, show a translate link at the bottom of the tootl. Google has a language detection extension to their translation api: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/detecting-language Presumably Bing and other common translation APIs also offer the same. Alternatively, we can also do the same (to a much less reliable extent) by tokenizing the toot and comparing against lists of the most frequent words of each (supported) language (maybe against an existing simple list, like what's in /usr/share/dict). This can probably be done at toot ingest time and stored along with the toot.

kouhai added the

priority/3.low

area/infrastructure

labels 2022-11-20 06:13:30 +00:00

fox commented

2022-12-03 05:27:19 +00:00

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/issues/1865 o.o

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