Add More Languages to Firefox Translations

[khalloof]

There are many languages in different places of the world. Currently, Firefox Translations doesn't provide succinct languages for people outside of Europe, the US and the UK. Please make sure to add more languages, especially significant ones, before starting to train Firefox Translations' neural networks. You have probably started already, but please make sure to add more languages.

[duvjones]

@Jon 
You know, it would be rather helpful if there was a bug on this to track. Something else to point to that the idea has been gaining or losing traction

[yousif]

Any plans to support Arabic language please? 

P.s.: I had to post this comment via Chrome as the comments box is not opening in Firefox Nightly for me!  

[nordzilla]

We released a new set of source languages this month:

• Croatian
• Danish
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Vietnamese

This means that you can now translate from these languages, but not yet into them.

[Albirew]

Since addon has been merged with Firefox, we lost "development" languages, like Icelandic, Farsi, or Norwegian.

Is there a way to get those back?

[conualfy]

I would like to help if there is some way to add Romanian language. Nothing bad about that, but it is rather strange to have in the list languages spoken by a lot fewer people but not some more frequent ones. Is there something we could do to add the Romanian language?  Thank you.

[Jon]

@conualfy thanks for reaching out! We actually have another thread here specifically for the Romanian language: Support Romanian translations - and happy to report that it's being worked on. Let me check with the team to see if there are any recent updates we can share 😃

[uid65534]

This is an old issue, but has there been any discussion around optionally adding an opt-in to web based translations as part of this feature? For example, Translate GPT or similar services.

This would go a long ways towards improving the language set support for this feature, which as it is right now makes this feature basically useless to me and many others. Quite a few major languages are missing, Chinese being a glaring example.

I would love to use the local translate frontend (e.g. context menu selection translation, etc) with a more versatile backend.

[Albirew]

using web-based translation services would kill the "privacy first" thinking behind this.

Firefox translations is privacy-based. if you don't care about your data and just want accurate web-based translation services, you can use google, deepl, or whatever web-translator addon you can find on the firefox addons website...

[uid65534]

That is why I said 'optionally'. I do not want the local translations feature removed, the suggestion was to extend it on an opt-in basis for those of us that care more about translation quality than the privacy of the specific things I want translated.

Obviously I know plugins exist, however the quality of built-in features is typically far higher and code trust is much better.

[nAME2]

The Android version was only recently repaired in order not to waste the phone's battery, so the app was installed, however, the lack of translation causes some inconvenience and loss to chrome.

I also don't understand why, when you highlight a hyperlink at the top of the browser, a menu with copy, for example, does not appear, as is usual. Small things but they are inconvenient.

The only thing that saves is extensions.

[tosix]

Browser translation capabilities are becoming very important due to AI.

Webkit alone is a crippled world, unable to go against companies like Google, Apple, and MS who are paying for it.

CJKV should be an important translation target so as not to further reduce its market share.

[baskardotbalsu]

Please let me know how I can contribute as a developer so that 'Tamil' language can also be included as part of Firefox translations.

[nordzilla]

I am happy to announce that starting in Firefox 135, which released yesterday, we now support the following languages for translation:

• from Simplified Chinese
• from Japanese
• from Korean
• into Russian

These models are only available on Firefox for Desktop at the moment. We are still working hard to improve some performance considerations before releasing this model on Firefox for Android. 

However, if you would like to try them out on Android, you can do so in the Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly applications available from the Google Play Store.

Thank you all for your continued support.

[nordzilla]

I am happy to announce that starting in Firefox 135, which released yesterday, we now support the following languages for translation:

• from Simplified Chinese
• from Japanese
• from Korean
• into Russian

These models are only available on Firefox for Desktop at the moment. We are still working hard to improve some performance considerations before releasing this model on Firefox for Android. 

However, if you would like to try them out on Android, you can do so in the Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly applications available from the Google Play Store.

Thank you all for your continued support.

[Albirew]

@nordzillaMany thanks for these languages. They were really wanted by a lot of people.

BTW, do you have an idea what happened to Icelandic, Farsi and Norwegian?
They were present as "beta" when translation was a standalone addon (and were working fine), but disappeared then.

[nordzilla]

@Albirew 

Those models were present in the original Translations extension, and we still have them!

You can view all of our models and their release statuses here.

When we transitioned from the extension to an in-browser experience, we established certain criteria for translation quality, and those models, unfortunately, did not meet the quality criteria.

Hopefully we will be able to retrain them with better quality in the future. 

Also, you can still use those models in the Beta and Nightly versions of Firefox.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/