RTranslator
Languages and libraries
translation app
SHOW HN2024
236points
56comments
#312of 3,515 in 2024
Top 9%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Execution: 1 for, 6 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, nice UI
From 2 comments
The UI is nice and clean, but I don't have a secondary device to test out the conversation mode. A video demo of how this works would be nice. The first translation I tried was…
owenpalmer on HNCongratulations to the translator, very nice and clean. Will you release a version for iOS or Progressive Web App in the future?
8mobile on HN
Useful offline translation idea
From 2 comments
Great we are more than a century ahead of schedule for Star Trek universal translator [1]. Joking aside, this will be very beneficial software if it can work seamlessly in…
teleforce on HNWhat does the latency look like with this?
spacemanspiff01 on HN
Objections
NLLB license is non-commercial, so calling the app open source is inaccurate
From 2 comments
The app looks very cool, but you might have a licensing issue; Meta's NLLB models are CC-BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial use only). I could recommend checking out the OPUS-NLP models,…
mrwyz on HNIn that case, it is not open source. Part 6 of the open source definition by OSI (the only commonly accepted definition) includes this requirement: > 6. No Discrimination Against…
Flimm on HN
Privacy policy still refers to Google and sends data to Google
From 1 comment
If you are doing translation locally on the device, why does your Privacy Policy say you are sending voice and transcriptions as well as personal location data to Google? >…
gslepak on HN
TTS initialization errors on several custom ROMs
From 3 comments
FYI, After model download, I get an error: ``` There was an error with the tts initialization ``` Using LineageOS+Microg and eSpeak for TTS (equivalent android version = 13).…
sillystuff on HNAfter downloading library I got error: There was an error with the tts initialising. Retry won't do anything.
t0bia_s on HNthis looks really exciting! sadly running into an issue with TTS initialization on CalyxOS with the eSpeak TTS engine.
khimaros on HN
Poor translation quality for short inputs and some languages like Turkish
From 3 comments
The UI is nice and clean, but I don't have a secondary device to test out the conversation mode. A video demo of how this works would be nice. The first translation I tried was…
owenpalmer on HNI like the idea, it's awesome! Too bad that NLLB, despite being advertised as specialized translation LLM, doesn't work with Turkish - it generates rubbish like Google Translate,…
levhawk on HNSo, there's a hope, cool Just for the reference, what I have to face with: "Sizinde Sular kokuyormu çok kötü koku var baneda mutfakta" NLLB gives: "You smell like water. It…
levhawk on HN
Requests
iOS version
From 2 comments
This looks neat. Surprised to find that it only got 40 upvotes on Producthunt. Just bookmarked on Github. Any chance to launch it for iOS as well?
nanovision on HNCongratulations to the translator, very nice and clean. Will you release a version for iOS or Progressive Web App in the future?
8mobile on HN
F-Droid release
From 1 comment
Any change on an fdroid release?
tonetegeatinst on HN
Video demo
From 2 comments
As said, a video demo would be great, especially since it is not on iOS yet, but it looks great!
tamimio on HNThe UI is nice and clean, but I don't have a secondary device to test out the conversation mode. A video demo of how this works would be nice. The first translation I tried was…
owenpalmer on HN
Questions
Performance on average/low-end devices
From 1 comment
Nice one! Thanks for sharing this. If possible, it would be good to include a list of devices that you know performance is good. We can all understand that most flagship mobiles…
NKosmatos on HN
Latency numbers
From 1 comment
What does the latency look like with this?
spacemanspiff01 on HN
Alternatives named
Google Translate
From 2 comments
This app is very cool! In walkie talkie mode, you may want to tweak the UI to make it clearer when the microphone is listening and when it's not. I saw the microphone icon…
ssrlcc on HNI like the idea, it's awesome! Too bad that NLLB, despite being advertised as specialized translation LLM, doesn't work with Turkish - it generates rubbish like Google Translate,…
levhawk on HN
ChatGPT
From 1 comment
I like the idea, it's awesome! Too bad that NLLB, despite being advertised as specialized translation LLM, doesn't work with Turkish - it generates rubbish like Google Translate,…
levhawk on HN
3PO app (non-local translation)
From 1 comment
Hi, I made a non-local version that supports translation to other languages. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.evergreenlabs.c3po iOS:…
billylo on HN