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Has anyone used it? What's the quality and latency like?

On one hand, I love the idea of moving this kind of processing back to local machines after two decades of centralization. But there were reasons the stuff got centralized in the first place. Are we already in a world where high quality translation has been commoditized so much that the models no longer have any intellectual property value, and can provide a good UX even on lower end machines?

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Just tried it in on Spanish to French and it took a while on the first run (I guess it downloaded the dictionary) but then it was as fast as Google translate.

Quality is pretty good to understand mainstream news. Some mistakes on words with multiple meanings.

I also tried it on a local TXT file in en=>fr and it works!

I've been using it for half a year or so. Dutch to English isn't perfect, but good enough, despite some glitches. The translation takes a couple of seconds.

I have a pretty similar experience. It's slower and worse translation (at least for Dutch) than the TWP extension, but hey it's local translation and I'd rather use this than send the contents of browser to a 3rd party like google, bing or yandex.

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