Translator API

You can translate text on-device using Chrome's built-in AI APIs, which ensures privacy and offline functionality by processing translations locally without sending data to external cloud services.

On-device language detection identifies the source language of unknown text by leveraging the Language Detector API as a fallback, automatically recognizing the language before passing it to the translation model.

Yes, you can translate long texts efficiently by using streaming translation, which processes extensive content in sequential chunks rather than attempting a single large translation request.

Client-side translation works offline because it uses Chrome's built-in on-device AI models, eliminating the need for external network dependencies or cloud API calls during the translation process.

The best way to handle client-side localization is to use on-device AI to detect the page's language and translate it into the user's preferred language in real-time without external service dependencies.

You should avoid on-device translation if your application must support browsers lacking Chrome's built-in AI APIs or if you require cloud-based translation models that support a wider array of languages.