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by jphilip 1464 days ago
Mozilla uses WebAssembly in it's offline translation extension. Here's a web-page demonstrating the same stuff:

- https://mozilla.github.io/translate/

These are neural models that are compressed and optimized to run on user's CPU. I write some of the code which repurposes the underlying (C++) library for extension's needs, all of which gets compiled via emscripten to WebAssembly for use in the browser.

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596888