Hey do you know any alternatives of google camera live translator for translating signs, documents, etc?

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Until AI models on the device will become a standard I really doubt you’ll find a viable alternative, since then it will always be someone’s server you send your pictures to, it’s the matter of who you trust more, a well established corporation which will profit from your content or some shady company/startup that will do the same but in less controlled environment

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      2 days ago

      Nah, bergamont works mighty fine offline in Firefox on Android right now already. You don’t need stupid LLMs to do machine translations.

      The real difficulty is OCR and combining the two.

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      3 days ago

      I highly doubt if they really live stream the video you took, or pictures. I would much rather believe an OCR is being done locally and send it to a server for translation.