英語版待てない…←日本版向けに自動翻訳を作れるんだけど、どれくらいの人が欲しい？【海外の反応】

I don’t need this myself because I learnt JP over the years (I’m not a basement dweller I’m just locked in).
I was wondering how many people would be interested in a simple HUD to translate the game.
The way it would work is I use OCR to recognize the text, and then I cover the text with an English translation (or any language would work) in a roughly similar color and style and size. It would be a completely automatic overlay but I expect a delay of about 1s after the text appears.
I’m quite good at coding and AI makes things a lot easier obviously.

I KNOW that libraries and tools exist that already do this, but there are two benefits to making a custom promilia one: 1. We can run the translation using a small local LLM that has an actual glossary of names and place, which makes translation context-aware and more accurate, and will handle the game’s dialogues more smoothly.
2. I can fine tune and adjust it for the UI once it comes out, and I can make it so recurring UI gets translated faster.
3. After I ran through the game once we can use all the text and images as fixed references to make most of the dialogue translations instantaneous (but that’s a little tedious so I’ll see about that).

If enough people want this I’ll develop it and make it a neat little GitHub (open source for anybody that’s scared of me).
If none of you care then I just won’t do it because I don’t need it, I’m trying to build some positive vibes in these dire times.

https://www.reddit.com/poll/1x5bd58

Note:
The app won’t ban or flag this, because it’s just a visual overlay. So there’s no worry that the game will consider this modding because the application won’t alter game files at all

Well, its surely gonna be miles better than what we already know will be a butchered english localization thx to lolcowlizers so why not lol.

There’s no guarantee the JP release will have an English translation at all, butchered or not
The LLM translation will certainly be better tho

Oh no, what i meant was about the global version lol. Instead of ppl waiting to play a butchered version, they can just play earlier *and* with real translations thx to u

Oh yeah I got it
Better than dubtitles

PC or mobile?

PC is cleaner and easier, but i can get it running on android phones, keep in mind though that an android phone realistically won’t have the compute to spare to run context aware translations so you’d have to wait until it’s all cached

Even if they don’t release a pc client it can run on blue stacks
iOS is impossible basically

It’s fine I will play on PC too. I was thinking about vibe coding a whole OCR based translation software before, but if you have a better option then that would be great

If I have a Better option than what?
I’m not going to develop my own OCR that would be a crazy overcommitment hahahahah
OCR already exists, I’m just going to make a HUD with context aware translation and a cache database

Better as in seamless, less intrusive, and user friendly I guess. Because some translation software I’ve used in the past, mainly for vn, weren’t that great on those aspects

You probably need root for Android and who the fuck knows what is going on for iOS.

I play AL JP but I’ll probably just wait for the EN server this time.

I have tried OCR on AL and 1s every textbox is just too much unfortunately. Especially since AL story can be difficult to interpret at times.

That’s why I suggest making a custom version

Instead of using a generic all purpose OCR application, this one would cache the translations. So menu translations etc would be very fast.
Only story/dialogues would have a bit more delay

But still thanks for the opinion, that’s what the post was for

No one needs menu translations. After a week people will have memorized what every button does.

The issue is the story/new stuff.

I don’t think its a bad idea overall. Some people will jump into JP rather than wait. 

I guess one thing to think about is whether you actually make it translate off CN. Because JP in AL is also localized / not entirely accurate to the original CN script as well.

It is possible to have a shared database of the actual dialogues which then overlay very quickly
At least one person would always need to make the sacrifice and go through it at least once though (I surely won’t play every story line every time it comes out right on time), so there’s probably a solution to make the experience as smooth as possible

I don’t know about translating off CN though because I personally don’t know how easy or reliable it’ll be to get access to the CN release for people, also people will be listening to mostly JP voices anyway

Is it possible to pull the lines from the game files? I’m assuming there will be Japanese subtitles too

I am honestly interested.

Better yet — a brief instructions how to do it to the other games 🙂

Shit why the hell not atp

If you do, I will donate money if you need . Thank you

Yeah totally down, the local cache shit is a great idea. I’d still play anyway (not my first rodeo with japanese only games) but it’ll be nice to not need to consult a discord or wiki for new updates.

looking for contributors? i can help if help is needed

From my experience MTL is big no no. Live translation without context being added is just horrible.

There’s a reason why AI machine translation is better because you can add context in the tool and make changes depending on the scenario but this isn’t live translation and requires more work

As someone that plays on the Japanese Priconne server after the global server shut down using translation tools I would need to see no global release to be interested in such a thing. MTL isn’t terrible but it can easily be outdone by a human translator and I have trouble believing Manjuu is going to go to the expense of running a global server and screwing things up. 

Sure stranger things have happened looking at Yostar handling their own game with Stella Sora but the issue there isn’t translation.

I hope they’ll be fine with this. Some developers can just have weird reasons for not allowing to do so. Would be great for the game!

You dropped this