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Interpreter

This app can translate text captured from any application running on your computer. You just need to specify which window you want to sample and that's it.

The app uses:

  • Google Cloud Vision to Extract the text on-screen
  • Google Translate or DeepL to translate it

The translated text is then displayed as subtitles on a floating window that you can move anywhere.

It's typically used to translate Japanese retro games unreleased in the US but you can use for anything you wish to translate!

sample

How to use

Prerequisites

Before you can use this app, you need some prerequisites:

  • A Google Cloud account.
  • Alternatively, you can use DeepL instead of Google Translate for translation.

Setting up your Google Cloud account

translator:
  api: "google"
  to: "en" # Target language

Note: The list of Google Translate supported language is available here.

(Optional) Setting up your DeepL account

As an alternative to Google Translate, you can use DeepL translate:

translator:
  api: "deepl"
  to: "en" # Target language
  authentication-key: "your-deepl-authentication-key"

Note: The list of DeepL supported language is available here.

Creating the default configuration file

If you run interpreter and no configuration file is found, interpreter will create the default configuration file in the current folder and then exit.

You can make the required change to the configuration file after that.

Once you are done, you can run interpreter again to start translating an application.

Configure Interpreter

Update the config.yml configuration file:

window-title: "change me"               # Title of the window you want to capture. It can be any part of the window title, for instance "Tales" for "Tales of Phantasia".
refresh-rate: "5s"                      # How often a screenshot is taken
confidence-threshold: 0.9               # Between 0 and 1. Filters out any OCR character with a confidence score below the threshold.
translator:
  api: "google"                         # "google" or "deepl"
  to: "en"                              # Target language. For Google translate, please check here: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages. For deepL, please check here: https://www.deepl.com/en/docs-api/translating-text
  authentication-key: "deepl-auth-key"  # required only for deepL
subs:
  font:
    color: "#FFFFFF"                      # RGB color code
    size: 48                              # Font size
  background:
    color: "#404040"                      # RGB color code
    opacity: 0xD0                         # Between 0x00 (transparent) and 0xFF (opaque)

Why does my virus-scanning software think interpreter is infected?

This is a common occurrence, especially on Windows machines, and is always a false positive. Commercial virus scanning programs are often confused by the structure of Go binaries, which they don't see as often as those compiled from other languages.

Read more about it here

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