argos-translate
Offline neural machine translation
TLDR
Translate text
SYNOPSIS
argos-translate --from lang --to lang [text]
DESCRIPTION
argos-translate is an open-source offline translation tool based on OpenNMT neural machine translation. It provides privacy-focused translation without sending data to external services.
The tool supports numerous language pairs through downloadable packages, enabling translation entirely on your local machine.
PARAMETERS
--from lang
Source language code--to lang
Target language code--list
List available languages-h, --help
Show help
CAVEATS
Translation quality varies by language pair. Language packages must be downloaded before use. Resource-intensive for large documents. May not match commercial translation services.
HISTORY
Argos Translate was developed as an open-source, privacy-respecting alternative to cloud translation services, using OpenNMT models for neural machine translation.
SEE ALSO
trans(1), translate-shell(1)
