TranslateLocally: Blazing-fast translation running on the local CPU
Nikolay Bogoychev, Jelmer Van der Linde, Kenneth Heafield · 2021
Every day, millions of people sacrifice their privacy and browsing habits in exchange for online machine translation.Companies and governments with confidentiality requirements often ban online translation or pay a premium to disable logging.To bring control back to the end user and demonstrate speed, we developed translateLocally.Running locally on a desktop or laptop CPU, translateLocally delivers cloud-like translation speed and quality even on 10 year old hardware.The open-source software is based on Marian and runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.