With Translate, Astian publishes a new translation service that appears as free software. At the start the program can handle nine languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Chinese. The automatic recognition of the input is still experimental.

Users can try the service on the Astian operated libretranslate.com, but the software also provide it on your own server. The associated API can be found on GitHub, including instructions for setting up and configuring. The Astian server is only intended for test purposes.

In future, not only as a single service Under the hood, the service is based on Argos Translate. The translation software, which is also free, can be used directly as a desktop application or Python library. Astian plans to integrate Translate into its other open source projects such as the Midori browser or its own cloud platform.

Find all information about Translate himself in the announcement of the project. The Translate API is under the AGPL 3.0, Argos Translate under the MIT license. Suppliers such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon also offer translation services, but these are proprietary software. For example, AWS considers its AI to be fit enough for call center use.

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