TranslateLocally: Blazing-fast translation running on the local CPU

Nikolay Bogoychev, Jelmer Van der Linde, Kenneth Heafield


Abstract
Every day, millions of people sacrifice their privacy and browsing habits in exchange for online machine translation. Companies and governments with confidentiality requirements often ban online translation or pay a premium to disable logging. To bring control back to the end user and demonstrate speed, we developed translateLocally. Running locally on a desktop or laptop CPU, translateLocally delivers cloud-like translation speed and quality even on 10 year old hardware. The open-source software is based on Marian and runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-demo.20
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Editors:
Heike Adel, Shuming Shi
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
168–174
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.20
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.20
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Cite (ACL):
Nikolay Bogoychev, Jelmer Van der Linde, and Kenneth Heafield. 2021. TranslateLocally: Blazing-fast translation running on the local CPU. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 168–174, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TranslateLocally: Blazing-fast translation running on the local CPU (Bogoychev et al., EMNLP 2021)
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