v0.2.0

TL;DR:

This release allows translation from Spanish and Estonian in and out of English, as well as English into German. The first translation will be a bit slow but the subsequent translations with the same translation language will be fast.

Key new features introduced in this release:

• Translation speeds are back to about 500-600 words per second
  • Compared to about 150-200 words per second in the last release

How to perform translation

• README to see how JavaScript APIs can be used
  • A demo to see everything running in a browser
• Translation model files for Spanish <-> English; English -> German; Estonian <-> English can be downloaded from mozilla-applied-ml/bergamot-models)

Caveats (will be improved upon in follow-up releases):

• Loading models still takes 10-30 seconds

  • This means that the first translation will take a long time to finish (subsequent translations should be faster for the same language pair)

• We currently bundle all files that are required for translation (model, vocabulary, shortlist etc.) in the wasm binary at compile time (instead of downloading them on demand during translation)

  • This is why the wasm binary size is over 400 MB