Translate API

@xucian hey, thanks! Yep, you were dead on. The only issue is that they can be very unpredictable in their responses (a flavor of their infamous hallucinations), so a lot under the hood here is corralling that. Took a lot of trial and error to get it to play nice and predictable. Nice guess lol

@nicben_ thanks for clarification. I imagined most of the work is around sanitization. it'll get more predictable over time, I guess. do you have any tips for my specific case? could it be fast enough for live translation? I'll take care of the speech-to-text part and such, ofc. also, I'm looking to start with english->greek and english->romanian. fun backstory: I'm doing this to help my dad experience red dead redemption 2, he's a huge fan of old western movies, hehe. and, why not, later turn it into a product

@xucian Yep, definitely. It's fast enough for live translation (under .5 second latency), but any faster than that you'd need some on-premises hardware. Though I don't think that's entirely necessary. Cool idea though, I definitely think this would be as good as it gets for that use case.

@nicben_ thanks, any plans to add Romanian & Greek?

@xucian Added :) Tested against Google translate and looking good. Lmk what you think of performance

@shinny When I used it over the other big names for my previous startup, I honestly couldn't tell the difference. But I encourage you to use the demo on the landing page (no account or card required) and see for yourself :)

@nicben_ From playing with the demo, It looks pretty good :)

@shinny Awesome! Do you have a use case for a service like this, or are you just exploring?

@nicben_ Nothing at the moment, I've been playing with the idea of a live language translation app but don't have the time right now :)

@shinny Right on. Well, you know where to find me when you're ready to tackle it, and when you do, I'll be your first supporter :)

@catcat_fist I haven't, but that's very interesting. What would be the use case there?

@nicben_ For example, translating words by highlighting them while reading articles or in the comment section. In this case, a Chrome extension saves me from having to switch between pages.

@catcat_fist Oh cool. Do you currently have a service you use that I could check out? And do you pay for it?

@nicben_ Saladict. It's free to use. However, its translations are not very accurate. I hope to find a more accurate and powerful translation plugin.

@catcat_fist I see. I'd have to figure out how to swing it monetarily, but that sounds interesting. I'll look into it and lyk if I pursue, thanks for the suggestion

@naveed_rehman Hey, good question! This is better because the model is specifically built for this purpose; ChatGPT can be very unpredictable in its responses (a flavor of their infamous hallucinations), so a lot under the hood here is corralling that. Took a lot of trial and error to get it to play nice and predictable :)

@qiufeng Thank you! Have you used similar translation services before?

@nicben_ I used deepl and tencentcloud , However, the accuracy of the translation may need to be tested specifically.

@qiufeng Fair enough, I encourage you to use the demo on the landing page (no account or card required) and see for yourself :)

@sanjog_gururaj Thank you! I hope you find it as useful as I did making it :)