Translation
For speech-to-text translation, see Speech-to-Text (STT / VTT / ASR) Transcription & Translation
LibreTranslate
We have an exprimental on-campus deployment of LibreTranslate, a free & open source machine translation web user interface and API;
https://translate.rtis-k8s-bravo.uod.otago.ac.nz
Depending on the language, quality can vary but output is generally poor compared to some of the larger ML models/LLM-based translation.
Supported languages
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and more
LLMs
Many generic LLM models perform quite well when tasked with translating from one language to another (depending on source and target language, and the respective model’s training).
e.g. with the prompt: “Translate this into English: …..”