# translate

**Repository Path**: mirrors_nextcloud/translate

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: translate
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2023-12-02
- **Last Updated**: 2026-01-11

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

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# Translate

[![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/nextcloud/translate)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/nextcloud/translate)

A Machine translation provider using Opus models by University of Helsinki running locally on CPU.

The models run completely on your machine. No private data leaves your servers.

### This app is deprecated

in favor of [translate2](https://github.com/nextcloud/translate2)

#### Nextcloud All-in-One:
With Nextcloud AIO, this app is not going to work because AIO uses musl. However you can use [this community container](https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/tree/main/community-containers/libretranslate) as replacement for this app.

## Ethical AI Rating
### Rating: 🟢

Positive:
* the software for training and inference of this model is open source
* the trained model is freely available, and thus can be run on-premises
* the training data is freely available, making it possible to check or correct for bias or optimise the performance and CO2 usage.

Learn more about the Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating [in our blog](https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-ethical-ai-rating/).

## Install
 * Place this app in **nextcloud/apps/**

or 

 * Install from the Nextcloud appstore

After installing this app you will need to run:

```
$ php occ translate:download-models
```

### Downloading only specific languages
```
$ php occ translate:download-models <languages>
```

For example

```
$ php occ translate:download-models de en
``` 

will download both en->de and de->en.

```
$ php occ translate:download-models de en es
```

will download en->de, de->en, en->es, es->en, es->de, de->es

## Building the app

The app can be built by using the provided Makefile by running:

    make

This requires the following things to be present:
* make
* which
* tar: for building the archive
* curl: used if phpunit and composer are not installed to fetch them from the web
* npm: for building and testing everything JS, only required if a package.json is placed inside the **js/** folder