Offline neural machine translation library and GUI.
Project description
Argos Translate
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Open-source offline translation library written in Python. Uses OpenNMT for translations, SentencePiece for tokenization, Stanza for sentence boundary detection, and PyQt for GUI. Designed to be used as either a Python library, command-line, or GUI application. LibreTranslate is an API and web-app built on top of Argos Translate.
Argos Translate supports installing model files which are a zip archive with an ".argosmodel" extension that contains an OpenNMT CTranslate2 model, a SentencePiece tokenization model, a Stanza tokenizer model for sentence boundary detection, and metadata about the model. Pretrained models can be downloaded here.
Argos Translate also manages automatically pivoting through intermediate languages to translate between languages that don't have a direct translation between them installed. For example, if you have a es ➔ en and en ➔ fr translation installed you are able to translate from es ➔ fr as if you had that translation installed. This allows for translating between a wide variety of languages at the cost of some loss of translation quality.
Models
Supported languages
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese
Examples
Python
from argostranslate import package, translate
package.install_from_path('en_es.argosmodel')
installed_languages = translate.get_installed_languages()
>>> [str(lang) for lang in installed_languages]
>>> ['English', 'Spanish']
translation_en_es = installed_languages[0].get_translation(installed_languages[1])
translation_en_es.translate("Hello World!")
>>> '¡Hola Mundo!'
Command Line
argos-translate --from-lang en --to-lang es "Hello World"
Hola Mundo
echo "Text to translate" | argos-translate --from-lang en --to-lang es
Texto para traducir
LibreTranslate Web App (Demo)
LibreTranslate API
const res = await fetch("https://libretranslate.com/translate", {
method: "POST",
body: JSON.stringify({
q: "Hello!",
source: "en",
target: "es"
}),
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json"}
});
console.log(await res.json());
{
"translatedText": "¡Hola!"
}
GUI
HTML Translation
The translate-html library is built on top of Argos Translate and Beautiful Soup and parses and translates HTML. The LibreTranslate API also has support for translating HTML.
Installation
Install from PyPI
Argos Translate is available from PyPI and can be installed with pip.
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install argostranslate
macOS
Install from Snap Store
Argos Translate is available from the Snap Store and auto installs a content snap to support translation between Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Additional languages can be installed from supplementary content snaps.
With snapd installed:
sudo snap install argos-translate
Automatically installs and connects to argos-translate-base-langs
snap to support translations between Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Additional languages can be installed from *.argosmodel files or from supplementary content snaps:
- argos-translate-de-en - German - English
- argos-translate-en-it - English - Italian
- argos-translate-en-pt - English - Portuguese
To connect automatically:
sudo snap connect argos-translate:argos-packages argos-translate-en-it:argos-packages
To run command line interface on Snapcraft:
argos-translate.cli --help
Installation for Windows
CTranslate2, the inference engine for Argos Translate, currently only distributes binaries for Linux and MacOS so to install Argos Translate on Windows you will need to build CTranslate2 from source.
Python source installation
Dependencies
Requires Python3, pip (which should come with Python3), and optionally virtualenv to keep Argos Translate's dependencies separate from other Python programs you have installed.
Python Installation Instructions
On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python3
Install
- Download a copy of this repo (this requires either installing git or downloading a zip from GitHub):
git clone https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate.git
cd argos-translate
- Make a virtual environment to install into (optional):
python3 -m pip install --upgrade virtualenv # If virtualenv not already installed
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
- Install this package with pip:
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install .
GPU Acceleration
To enable GPU support, you need to set the ARGOS_DEVICE_TYPE
env variable to cuda
or auto
.
$ ARGOS_DEVICE_TYPE=cuda argos-translate --from-lang en --to-lang es "Hello World"
Hola Mundo
The above env variable instructs CTranslate2 to use cuda. if you encounter any issues with GPU, please consider reading CTranslate2 documentation.
Build and install snap package
- Install snapd if it isn't already installed.
- Using snapd install snapcraft and its dependency multipass:
sudo snap install multipass
sudo snap install snapcraft
- Clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate.git
cd argos-translate
- From the root directory of this project build the snap package:
SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_ENVIRONMENT_MEMORY=4G snapcraft
Any unzipped package files in package/ will be automatically included in the snap archive (and won't be able to be deleted by users of the snap).
Note, the build won't run with Snapcraft's default build memory of 2GB so you need to set the SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_ENVIRONMENT environment variable. More on Snapcraft forum.
- Install the snap package:
sudo snap install --devmode argos-translate_<version information>.snap
Run Argos Translate!
argos-translate
argos-translate-gui
When installing with snap a .desktop file should also be installed which will make Argos Translate available from the desktop menu.
Uninstall
If you want to uninstall Argos Translate, you may choose the applicable method.
Uninstall PYPI/pip package
If you installed Argos Translate via pip
you can uninstall it using
python3 -m pip uninstall argostranslate
You may choose to also delete temporary and cached files:
rm -r ~/.local/cache/argos-translate
rm -r ~/.local/share/argos-translate
Uninstall Snap
The following command will uninstall the snap package.
sudo snap remove argos-translate argos-translate-base-langs
If you installed additional language packs, you might want to remove them as well, e.g.
sudo snap remove argos-translate-de-en
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Available issues are on the GitHub issues page.
Support
For support use GitHub Issues, Github Discussions, or the LibreTranslate Forum.
Custom models
Custom models trained on your own data are available for $1000/each (negotiable).
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License
Dual licensed under either the MIT License or CC0.
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