Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world Optional @lemmy.world 5 mo. ago

Auto-translate?

I see a lot of feeds in other languages that I don’t know (I are a merican so i just know the two - baseball and cursing.). But I’d be very interested if there was some kind of babelfish auto-translation for the other posts so I could see what they were about - does anything like that exist or is there any known effort underway to make one?

As it is, I get conflicted between blocking them because I never understand them, or just scrolling by them all. Yes, I should learn German, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, and that one they talk in the Britishal Kingdom or whatever, it’s, uh, like it’s on the to-do list but, like, in the meantime . . . ?

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Sync for Lemmy has a translation feature. You could try that.
- Oh that's neat, thanks.
You can select the languages you want to see posts in in the Lemmy settings.
- Yeah, I just wanted to “see them all” so to speak, thinking the language setting could be an input for auto-translation
  
  it can be done via chatgpt etc but would have to be implemented by a client app and likely would have a cost so enough people would have to be willing to pay for it.
- I did this and somehow still see them. Not sure the reason.
I had the same idea, but it's still just a feature that's being worked on.

I haven't found any specific workaround to do that.

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