Contributing

We welcome contributions! Here’s some ways to contribute to the project:

Financially

You can support the project financially by getting yourself an API key and/or support upstream libraries like argos-translate by visiting their sponsorship page.

In-Kind

Documentation

You can help us improve this documentation or translate it.

Web UI

The LibreTranslate Web UI is available in all the languages for which LibreTranslate can translate to. It can also (roughly) translate itself! Some languages might not appear in the UI since they haven’t been reviewed by a human yet. You can enable all languages by turning on --debug mode.

You can help us improve or review the UI translations:

• Go to https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/libretranslate/app/#translations. All changes are automatically pushed to the repository.
• Once all strings have been reviewed/edited, open a pull request and change libretranslate/locales/{code}/meta.json or let us know in the community forum which language you’ve reviewed and we’ll do it for you:

{
 "name": "<Language>",
 "reviewed": true <-- Change this from false to true
}

Developer Tasks

• You can train a new language model using Locomotive. For example, we want to train improved neural networks for German and many other languages.
• Can you beat the performance of our language models? Train a new one and let’s compare it. To submit your model make a post on the community forum with a link to download your .argosmodel file and some sample text that your model has translated.
• Help us fix an existing issue.
• Add a new feature that is useful to you. If you’re unsure about it, open a discussion on our community forum first.