Translation feature for forums

TomteTummetott

I've discovered that the guys from Userlike integrated DeepL to translate chats live during a conversation. The way it works is that it detects the webvisitors language and then translates it into the language that is set in the agents profile. You can see the feature in action in this short video (at 3:50).

How awesome would it be to have a similar feature for posts in flarum? It would make a whole forum be available in many more languages and bring together people from all over the world more easily!

For those of you who don't know DeepL yet: It is the current market leader in translation software, far better than any other software out there. It creates such great results, that it allows you to actually have a conversation with someone whos language you can't speak.
The technical documentation can be found here, hopefully someone feels inspired to build such an extension :-)

bryantmilan

This looks really good! I imagined something like this could be on the forums, it would make a revolution among the forums. I see that there are currently a limited number of languages for translation, but I believe that there will be more and more of them and that this will become the standard on larger websites, social networks or applications.

TomteTummetott

They do not offer that many languages, because they are completely focusing on quality instead of quantity. But they are adding new languages constantly, last ones were Chinese and Japanese I believe.

McAdam

@TomteTummetott
I am planning something that might be similar to what you mentioned.
Check it out here and add your support if it aligns.
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/25598-true-multi-language-a-plan-seeking-devs