I would be willing to train a new model (language based on community input?) for $1000 similar to what I did for the Zammad sponsored model.
@pierotofy I think you should keep the majority of the $10k to support your work on LibreTranslate. You’re currently doing most of the day to day maintenance and making that financially sustainable for you is important for the project.
Some other ideas for micro grants:
- Documentation - this is something open source projects often struggle with. Proprietary software often has better documentation because they’re paying people to write it.
- More support for Indian languages, this is currently a weakness of Argos Translate but something that people have been asking for. I think currently we only support Hindi and Urdu. I could work on this
- Develop a web app for people to submit their own translation pairs and rate translations. This way we could crowdsource data
- Create a bug bounty for someone to find and fix the memory leak in LibreTranslate
- Train a custom Spacy model for sentence boundary detection
- Better tooling for managing .argosmodel translation models. I’ve noticed most people aren’t comfortable installing a model with Python and this prevents them from doing any sort of custom language model install besides using
--load-only. Maybe I could port Argos Translate GUI to Windows. - More performance profiling