In plain words: TranslateLocally is a free app that translates text using only your computer's own processor, so nothing is sent to a company's servers. It matches online translation in speed and quality even on 10-year-old laptops.
Abstract
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.
Nikolay Bogoychev, Jelmer Van der Linde, Kenneth Heafield
arXiv:2109.10194 · cs.CL · submitted Sep 21, 2021
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted at EMNLP 2021 demo track; https://translatelocally.com