Automatic Translations (similar to Google Translate, Deepl, etc.)

[candidexmedia]

Hello! I get the sense that this question/suggestion was already put forth, but I couldn't find it anywhere:

Will it be possible to generate automatic translations using Google Translate or Deepl, mark them as machine translations, and then allow human contributors to review those automated translations?

[samuelstroschein]

Yes!

We are launching a CLI soon that enables machine translations as part of the CI/CD process. One difficulty we have is the question of where to store metadata like marking translations as machine translated.

A discussion is on going at #355.

TL;DR Either store metadata in git repos, or have a backend service. Right now, inlang has no backend which leads to easy adoption because all apps (editor, CLI, ide-extension) just work without extra accounts, setup, etc.

[jonator]

Hey we need this ASAP for https://github.com/osmosis-labs/osmosis-frontend as we're looking into other solutions to automate this.

IMO it would be great if we could have the Inlang dev-native experience (VSCode extension??) that could walk us through the automatic translation of a ref lang using AI. But still maintain the human element of exposing a frontend to make it easy for a native speaker to fine-tune the translations.

It would even be enough for me to give the VSCode extension (or CLI) my OpenAI API key to use for translating (or google translate API key).

[samuelstroschein]

1. I am going to prioritize this. Is this month a satisfying timeline?
2. What caused the need/lookout for a solution?

[felixhaeberle]

@jonator As I heard from your response, you would like to have a "Translate all" feature which simply translates all the strings of the reference languages in all (specified, for example by an config) other languages?

[shinokada]

I will be interested in using the automatic translations for https://github.com/themesberg/flowbite-svelte as well.

[felixhaeberle]

@shinokada What requirements do you have? As you may know, we already have machine translation in our editor. You can already use the inlang editor here: Just create a inlang.config.js at the root of your repository with the content from here and visit https://inlang.com/editor/github.com/themesberg/flowbite-svelte

Keep in mind to have translation files in place with key value pairs. More on how to use inlang with svelte can be found here.

I'm curious: What would the best developer experience in regards to translating look like for you?

Do you have any further question? Feel free to ask them. I'm happy to help!:)

[samuelstroschein]

The CLI supports machine translations now with inlang machine translate.