Firefox Getting Translate Selected Text Feature, Here's How to Try It
Firefox Getting Translate Selected Text Feature, Here's How to Try It
A handy new translations feature is in the works for Mozilla Firefox that should help speed up translating short snippets of text from one language to
There was doom and gloom about Mozilla saying they wanted to integrate 'AI' into Firexox, but to me, privacy respecting locally run translation seems like a great usecase. I guess people were only reading the headline and jumped to the conclusion Mozilla wanted a chatbot.
Features like this, better text to speech, audio descriptions for images, maybe something to find alternate sources covering the same news, spotting fake reviews, etc all seem like worthwhile developments.
They have been working on the local translation stuff since 2019, long before they started talking about AI recently
True, but a lot of stuff that's now called 'AI' wouldn't have been branded as such a few years ago. A lot of the 'AI' we're seeing now isn't actually new tech.
Comma splice, dude.
Playing catch-up with Chrome again?
Does Chrome's run locally on the machine, or does it ferry it over to Google Translate?
Firefox's is done locally, it is not cloud based.
Also, I think it was already possible to use Google Translate and others through the extensions. This is an improvement because it's done locally