[Debian-l10n-devel] Using LLMs to automte translations in Debian?

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi,

(I am not subscribed to this list, please include me in replies)

Are there any efforts underway to build systems or tools that leverage
LLMs to translate content for Debian?

LLMs seem to be mature enough to do a pretty good job at translations,
and I recently used them to update and complete all translations in
dbconfig-common
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dbconfig-common/-/merge_requests/14).
None of that was package-specific. All packages in Debian share the
same Gettext system and translation formats and LLMs seem to handle
them pretty well. I would kind of be surprised if nobody already had
started building automation around this for Debian. Alongside the
automation and tools there should perhaps also be an agreed upon
process on how to efficiently or sufficiently review all the
translations, as I suspect the main bottle-neck will be reviews, not
translations themselves.

- Otto