Best foss full page translation app?

Currently digging into a lot of foreign websites and am wondering what the best and most private way to translate a whole screen is. I use linux.

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Maroon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 221d (1 reply)
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Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 221d

It does, and it works quite fine. :-)

Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 221d

I don't know of any, just commenting to keep track of this post and add engagement.

helloworld@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 219d

I heard about Argos Translate, which is used by libretranslate github link. It can be used for offline translations.

But I was unable to get it running locally on my machine to test it. As far as i know they translate by routing many different translators together, which may produce worse results (for example French -> English -> Chinese

standarduser@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 221d (1 reply)

It’s been awhile but I have liked using this since its European and has been tested with my buddy’s Argentine girlfriend about accuracy and a few of my discord buddy’s from Kuwait. https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407580229522-Translate-with-the-browser-extensions

beyond@linkage.ds8.zone · 2 pts · 220d

This is a proprietary extension for a proprietary "service as a software substitute" program living on someone else's computer. It's about the furthest from free software/open source as you can get