machine translate plugin api (LLMs, DeepL, ChatGPT)

[osdiab]

Hi, I looked at the source code for the CLI machine translate task and it uses Google Translate as of now—I think it would be cool if it would be possible to specifically use LLMs like ChatGPT via an OpenAI API key to generate translations, in particular to provide the full set of existing i18n strings as context for a greater likelihood of contextually-correct translation outputs. How difficult might it be to set something like that up?

[samuelstroschein]

How difficult might it be to set something like that up?

Simple once we introduce a plugin API.

Context

Users want different machine translation providers (Google Translate, DeepL, ChatGPT, Custom LLM, IGAI).

Proposal

Offer a plugin API for machine translations.

Users will be able to plug in their machine translation solution of choice, and even mix & match. Installing 2 machine translation plugins e.g. deepl and chatgpt offers users a choice of machine translating messages with different models.