Lingo Link

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Introduce：

Lingo Link is a browser plugin for translating selected text, designed to help users read the original language in a foreign language and improve their language skills in the process. The plug-in design is simple and beautiful, supports a variety of translation services, including Youdao Dictionary, Google Translate, and allows users to customize the model.

Stakeholders:
The target audience is users who need to read foreign language materials, learn foreign languages or improve their language skills. Lingo Link helps them better understand and learn foreign language content by providing convenient translation services and vocabulary learning functions.
Usage Scenario Examples:

Students use Lingo Link to quickly translate professional terms when reading academic papers in English.
Foreign language teachers use Lingo Link to translate and interpret vocabulary in real time in the classroom.
Business people use Lingo Link to understand foreign language content when browsing international websites.

The features of the tool:

Word query: Support Youdao Simplified Dictionary and Youdao Collins Dictionary.
Translation services: Integrated with Youdao Translation, Google Translate, OlienAI, etc., large-scale model translation requires API keys.
Word tagging: New words collected on the page are tagged.
Custom models: Users can add custom translation models.
Development mode: Supports loading plug-ins in the browser extension development mode.
Build output: The dist directory contains the final build output.
Open source license: GPL-3.0 license.

Steps for Use:

1. Open the browser and go to the extension management page.
2. Enable developer mode so that unpackaged extensions can be loaded.
3. Click “Load the extracted extension” and select the dist folder of Lingo Link.
4. The browser will load the Lingo Link plug-in, and the user can select the text on the page for translation.
5. Users can select translation service and custom translation model in plug-in Settings.
6. During use, new vocabulary will be automatically marked on the web page for easy learning and review.

Tool’s Tabs: Translation, browser plugin