The Bergamot project will add and improve client-side machine translation in a web browser

guest · Oct 20, 2019

The Bergamot project will add and improve client-side machine translation in a web browser
https://browser.mt/blog/kickoff-post

The focus of the 3-year Bergamot project is addition and improvement of client-side machine translation in a web browser. This shift to client-side translation empowers citizens to preserve their privacy and increases the uptake of language technologies in Europe in sectors that require confidentiality.

With almost 3M € in funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Bergamot’s addition of client-side machine translation to a web browser will result in cost savings for private and public sector users who would otherwise procure translation or operate monolingually.

Finally, to guarantee impacts beyond the 3-year timeframe of Bergamot, the consortium are integrating the results of this action into the Firefox browser and open sourcing all the technologies produced through the Bergamot effort. This will ensure that the effort is disseminated widely to users through the Firefox browser and is able to be exploited via other means through developers leveraging the open source technologies.
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guest · Oct 20, 2019

Mozilla working on native Firefox translation feature
October 20, 2019
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/10/20/mozilla-working-on-native-firefox-translation-feature/

Mozilla is working on integrating a native translation feature in the organization's Firefox web browser that does not rely on cloud services.
The functionality is not enabled by default; one of the main reasons for that is that Mozilla would have to pay the companies that operate the translation services for API use. While Firefox users may get an API key from these services to integrate it in the browser, it is not something that is advertised by Mozilla.

The native integration of machine translation functionality in Firefox is part of Project Bergamot, a research project funded by the European Union. The project's consortium is a joint venture of the University of Edinburgh, University of Sheffield, Charles University, University of Tartu and Mozilla.
Mozilla plans to integrate the project into the Firefox web browser to bring native client-side translation functionality to the browser.

The translate functionality uses the same interfaces as the already integrated translate services in Firefox. Mozilla Firefox detects the language of the page and suggests to translate it into a different language based on the user's preference.
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