Automatic in-browser Ukrainian text translation and local news sources to follow

3 points

4 years ago

In comments on forums, Twitter, Telegram, and many other text based services, I've seen a lot of requests/demands for translations of Ukrainian and Russian language content.

There's a Mozilla Firefox add-on "Translate Web Pages" by Filipe Ps [0] available on Github [1] I've been using since the beginning of hostilities to automatically translate, and check existing English translations, of Ukrainian news web-sites, Twitter threads, etc.

Originally the Yandex engine worked but lately seems to be less useful - not sure if that is due to some interference on the Yandex side for Ukrainian translation or a side-effect of the sites I read. The Google engine continues to work reasonably.

The result sometimes needing a little mental gymnastics to help decode into a colloquial style.

Here's a few of the Ukrainian language news and mapping web sites I read:

https://liveuamap.com/en/ = really good for geo-locating stories on map with links to original sources

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/ = natively Ukraine/Russian/English

https://www.epravda.com.ua/news/ = economic news (Special Financial Operation - SPOs - aka Sanctions!)

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato = Natively Ukraine/Russian/English/Spanish/German/French/Japanese/Polish

https://www.5.ua/novyny/ = Channel 5 TV

https://prm.ua/news/ = Direct TV

https://censor.net/ua/news/all = Censor Net

https://war.ukraine.ua/ = Ukraine government news

https://tvzvezda.ru/ = Russian defence ministry

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/

[1] https://github.com/FilipePS/Traduzir-paginas-web