Local Translate in the Browser

Longely

nevermind, got it to work now on some sites

obroc

Vlad is this supposed to work for mobile as well? Hoping there is a translation solution on iOS as well, but have so far been unsuccessful with the extension you mentioned

Vlad

obroc what do you use in other browsers on iOS?

mattheja

Vlad Initial testing with this is quite good, thank you. With this, I am going to swap back to Orion full time. The reason I went back to Safari was for native translation. I have noticed that Microsoft Outlook for Mac can use the Apple native translation now, so I am hoping Orion can use this soon? I genuinely have no idea how Apple and their API's work in relation to software development, but in the last of 18 months of Apple updates in iOS and MacOS, the native translation functions have both improved and are available more often when using them.

Vlad

mattheja

Microsoft Outlook for Mac can use the Apple native translation

Can you share more details about this and how do you know it is native system translation?

mattheja

Vlad

I should not assume it is I suppose, but if I right mouse click the same German text in my Outlook for Mac app v16.80 23121017, and then also in Apple's Notes, the UI elements are identical and translations are identical. In Outlook, if I select the language dropdown, then "more languages", it opens up my MacOS settings General>Language&Region>Translation Languages. I'm on Sonoma 14.2.1.

MiguelAmaral

I would like to propose as a test-case reddit.com or old.reddit.com . Afaik on iOS there’s no translation extension that works for this website on Orion, but Firefox on the desktop can do it with TWP. Safari on iOS has no control for target language if the user has picked multiple languages as understood: if Reddit itself shows some UI in English because that’s how the user account is configured, but comments are in a different language, Safari picks as target language the second in the list of user languages.

Vlad

Note that Orion already has "Translate ..." available in the right click menu when you select some text on the page. This is inherited natively from WebKit/system.

Wion

Vlad didn't know, thanks

YannickBurky

Vlad This is a great extension, but unfortunately it doesn't work on the mobile version of orion.

TDV

From WWDC 24, Apple now provides a translation API.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10117/

Vlad

TDV Yeo we saw that, it is great news.

azdanov

It would be cool if Orion had something similar to Chrome's Google Translate.

If it's implemented as part of the browser then it can be much more powerful than an extension.

In future iterations maybe it would be possible to leverage local LLMs or bring your own key LLM services instead of Kagi Translate, although I think people would just pay for Kagi + Orion.

yuzhe

[https://immersivetranslate.com/en](https://)
It is recommended to refer to this one. This translation project is very well done.

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