Drop google translate dependency

[kfatehi]

Promising library here https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate

Persian language is missing, and is voted on here argosopentech/argos-translate#91 (comment)

When you look at this project, you can see it is based on an open parallel database, and so I think it may be within reason that an individual could go and add Persian himself using that dataset. Is this true?

[nimkamp]

Why are we dropping google translate? Google translate supports Persian and Vosk can be used to translate Persian audio to Persian text. Google Translate will then take the Persian text and convert to English text. English text to English Audio.

[kfatehi]

@nimkamp i tried to explain my reasoning here https://github.com/kfatehi/pi-phone-dock#connectivity-requirements

basically 2 reasons:

1. latency for round trip time to a third party service
2. you might not always have internet access yet still want to use the tool.

also there's a baked in assumption that google will allow us to keep using it forever, so i consider these services as temporary anyway, it's just a matter of time before the put up blockers (like beefing up their security so that the method used by the library to access it will no longer work / enforcing usage with a captcha on the website, things like that.).