Hello,

Joshua would be suitable to this. We have models built for FR→EN and ES→EN. I 
want to improve these because some certain data was left out. I could also 
build ones for the other direction.

One question — What do you mean about 3rd party services being "untrustworthy"?

matt


> On Jan 16, 2017, at 12:27 PM, Karel Novotný <ka...@apc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello developers,
> 
> I am new to this list, so missing a lot of background. Apologies
> beforehand for eventually dumb questions...
> 
> We would like to build a self-hosted machine translation system that
> could be plugged into our mailman installs. The objective is that the
> members of our multicultural network would be able to send email in
> their mother language and it would be delivered to the list
> machine-translated (and vise versa). The translation pairs we care about
> most are EN<->FR and EN<->ES
> 
> Our dream scenario is:
> 
> 1. A translator machine is installed on our server, so the messages
> don't need to be run through untrustworthy 3rd party services (googletrans)
> 2. Mailman (or similar) is connected to such a translator
> 3. Mailing list users can opt to receive messages sent to the mailing
> list in following format:
> 
> ----
> Message body
> ----------------------
> Message body translated
> -----
> 
> 4. Similarly, the system can be configured so that when receiving
> messages from specific senders the messages get translated from FR or ES
> into EN
> 
> Our default language used on lists is EN
> 
> Is Joshua relevant for this? Any previous experience with similar setup?
> I suppose that a lot of configuration would be needed, but at this point
> I want to know if I am not completely mistaken when considering your
> Joshua for this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> karel
> 
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