translate

Transate text from stdin to the current locale using ollama and mixtral:instruct.

mixtral:instruct (around 26 GiB) will be downloaded the first time the utility is being run.

Requires ollama to be set up and serving on port 11434.

The translation takes a cuple of seconds up to several minutes, and is not terribly exact. But, it is a pretty versatile tool.

ollama and translate does not require an internet connection once mixtral:instruct has been downloaded.

Quick installation

For installing the latest version of translate into ~/go/bin:

go install github.com/xyproto/translate@latest

Add ~/go/bin to the PATH if needed:

export PATH="$HOME/go/bin:$PATH"

Example use

LANG is set to nb_NO.UTF-8

$ echo 'I can speak Norwegian!' | translate
Jeg kan snakke norsk!

Translate "hello" to the current locale if no text is given on stdin:

$ translate
hei

LANG is explicitly set to de_DE:

$ echo 'I can speak German!' | LANG=de_DE translate
Ich kann Deutsch sprechen!

LANG is explicitly set to de_DE and verbose output is enabled with -v:

$ echo 'I can speak German!' | LANG=de_DE translate -v
Prompt: Translate the following text to the locale de_DE (and only output the translated text): I can speak German!
Sending request to /api/tags
Sending request to /api/generate: {"model":"mixtral:instruct","prompt":"Translate the following text to the locale de_DE (and only output the translated text): I can speak German!"}
Ich kann Deutsch sprechen!

General info

• Version: 1.0.1
• License: BSD-3