[stlee42]

it doesn't fit in 3MB.

you can see the model sizes here: https://gist.github.com/jelmervdl/1a48816e4c3643ff5d9e1fd682...

they are like 15MB per language pair each way

[GekkePrutser]

Still impressive. It works pretty well and without that cloud that Google likes to tell us we really need.

Google is a bit better of course with many common expressions but I'm sure that can run locally too if they'd want to. Mozilla just has don't catching up to do because they don't monetize our data. So less budget to work with.

[tinus_hn]

As far as I could tell this is the engine powering this:

https://github.com/marian-nmt/marian-dev/

It’s compiled c++ running using wasm.

[autoexec]

> Still impressive. It works pretty well and without that cloud that Google likes to tell us we really need.

This is still using Google's cloud to host the models and your browser has to repeatedly download them on demand. We shouldn't need to depend on Google at all, but with Firefox Translations we still do and they're still collecting data about us.

[MMAesawy]

With the Google Translate app you have the option to download languages for offline use, and it's not hidden behind 10 menus or anything.

[midoridensha]

That's still very small. Pretty soon, we'll have universal translator chips installed in our heads.

[dt3ft]

Or a fish in our ears?