Crow Translate is a great frontend for translating, but it’s missing a huge advantage - Libretranslate can run locally on most computers with a GPU at reasonable performance. Instead, it relies on Mohzi to proxy queries to public cloud operators. There is no setting to use a local instance or even a specific instance of Libretranslate (say, you selfhosted your own somewhere). Adding this functionality would make it possible for Crow translate to enable seamless, private translation with the only drawback being reduced quality. It’s pretty great. I think this is the right place to request a feature like this, but if anyone knows a better way to get this to the developers, I’m not really feeling like learning a whole new development scheme to help out with this quite yet.
technically, the gitlab is for this: Issues · Office / Crow Translate · GitLab . I haven’t considered libretranslate, but it sounds like a good idea. Actually maybe better than a builtin local translator backend, because it seems much easier.