{"id":100250,"date":"2021-05-24T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/novosti-interneta\/mozilla-podgotovila-dlya-firefox-dopolnenie-s-sistemoj-mashinnogo-perevoda"},"modified":"2021-05-24T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T08:23:14","slug":"mozilla-podgotovila-dlya-firefox-dopolnenie-s-sistemoj-mashinnogo-perevoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/mozilla-podgotovila-dlya-firefox-dopolnenie-s-sistemoj-mashinnogo-perevoda","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla has prepared a machine translation system add-on for Firefox","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Mozilla has released version 0.4 of the Firefox extension Firefox Translations (formerly developed under the name Bergamot Translate), implementing a self-sufficient machine translation system that operates on the browser side without relying on external services. The translation engine utilizes bergamot-translator, developed within the Bergamot initiative by Mozilla developers in collaboration with researchers from several universities in the UK, Estonia, and the Czech Republic, with financial support from the European Union. The code is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license. <\/p>\n
The engine is written in C++ and compiles to an intermediate WebAssembly binary using the Emscripten compiler. It acts as a wrapper over the Marian machine translation framework, which employs recurrent neural networks (RNN) and transformer-based language models. GPU can be used to accelerate training and translation. Marian is used to power the Microsoft Translator service and is primarily developed by engineers at Microsoft together with researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Pozna\u0144. <\/p>\n
Firefox Translations supports translation from Estonian and Spanish to English and vice versa, as well as from English to German. The translation speed is 500-600 words per minute. It includes support for prioritizing the translation of text visible in the browser window. The new version provides the ability to automatically download models upon the first translation attempt. Model files take about 15 MB for each language. This automatic downloading leads to a slight delay before the first translation, but drastically reduces the size of the extension itself (3.6 MB instead of 124 MB). <\/p>\n
In the new version, the loading speed of models into memory has also been significantly accelerated \u2014 previously loading a model took 10-30 seconds, but now models load almost instantly. If the page translation takes more than 3 seconds, a progress indicator is provided in the interface. The translation occurs sequentially from top to bottom, starting with the visible area. Translated parts are displayed as they become available, while untranslated sections remain in the original language. <\/p>\n
Telemetry transmission has been enabled, including data on user interactions with the extension's interface (for example, about button clicks for translation or disabling translations for specific sites), information about operation execution time, and technical details about the system (CPU, memory). <\/p>\n
The extension can currently only be installed in nightly builds of Firefox with the check for add-ons by digital signature disabled (\"xpinstall.signatures.dev-root=true\" and \"xpinstall.signatures.required=false\" in about:config). After installing the extension, Firefox will begin displaying a toolbar suggesting to translate pages where the language differs from that of the browser and is supported by the extension. You can disable further display of the toolbar for a given language or site.
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It is worth noting that Firefox already has a built-in mechanism for translating pages, but it relies on using external cloud services (supporting Google, Yandex, and Bing) and is not activated by default (to enable it, the settings \"browser.translation\" should be changed in about:config). The translation mechanism also supports automatic language detection when opening a page in an unknown language and displays a special indicator offering to translate the page. The new extension uses this same interface for user interaction, but instead of calling external services, it launches a built-in processor that handles data on the user's system.
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