{
  "title": "Free Translation",
  "video_id": "1guxKL429F4",
  "published": "2026-02-27T10:43:54+0000",
  "complexity": "Normal",
  "old_url": "https://workflows-of-ai.com/workflow/free-translation",
  "description": "Free, private AI translations in Drupal: use Chrome's built-in Translator API with the Browser Provider and AI Translate modules.",
  "subtitle": "Translate Drupal content with the Translator API built into Chrome, so the text never leaves the browser and costs nothing.",
  "summary": "The Browser Provider lets Drupal AI hand calls to AI that runs in the browser, here Chrome's built-in Translator API. Marcus installs AI, AI Translate and the Browser Provider on Drupal CMS, makes the browser the default translation provider and adds German and Spanish. Each editor downloads the language packs once, then translations run locally at no cost.",
  "categories": [
    "Drupal AI"
  ],
  "intro_html": "<p>Free &amp; Private AI Translations in Drupal - Running Directly in the Browser</p><p>What if you could translate content in Drupal using AI - completely free and without sending data to external services?</p><p>In this video, I show how to use the Google Chrome built-in Translator API together with the Drupal Browser Provider and AI Translate module to run translations directly inside the user’s browser.</p><p>That means:<br />* No external API calls<br />* No third-party data sharing<br />* True privacy<br />* Zero cost per translation</p><p>Everything runs locally via Chrome’s built-in AI capabilities.</p><p>In this walkthrough, I show:</p><p>How the Chrome Translator API works</p><p>How to configure the Browser Provider</p><p>How to connect it to AI Translate</p><p>How to get browser-based translations working in Drupal</p><p>Links:<br />Chrome Translator API<br /><a href=\"https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/translator-api\">https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/translator-api</a><br />Browser Provider<br /><a href=\"https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_provider_browser\">https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_provider_browser</a><br />AI Translate<br /><a href=\"https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_translate\">https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_translate</a></p><p>If you're working with AI in Drupal and care about privacy, cost control, or local-first architecture, this is a powerful setup.</p>",
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  "chapters": [
    "0:00 Free and private translations",
    "1:02 The Browser Provider",
    "1:52 Installing the modules",
    "2:53 Browser Provider settings",
    "3:31 Adding languages",
    "4:49 Translating with language packs"
  ],
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  "ai_note": "The video and the introduction are Marcus's own, first published on workflows-of-ai.com. AI wrote the subtitle, the summary and the video chapters from the transcript, and corrected misheard names in YouTube's automatic captions."
}