boooooo stop separating Bjorn from his friends! you’ve done that like 3 times in a row!! its a perfectly valid plot development normally but the repetition is noticeable booooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve spent a whole two weeks creating an AI tool to translate novels yet even with the best LLM models, human translation still wins. Atleast the tool is a step up from the MTL’s we see online so often so it was not entirely a waste.
any new gen LLM should be able to translate a LN, maybe languages like korean, japanese etc. being hard in writing makes it harder idk. Anyways after translating using 2 different LLM’s (lets take gpt and claude or maybe gemini?) , cross checking them then fixing some words using human logic that reads this type of LN’s should be very close to full human translation
I tried locally running LLM models like QWEN 3.6 and translationGemma. If there’s no real translator doing the translations, it’s do-able but it can’t compare to a real person translating. The mean issue I’m having is that it’s not interpreting things correctly and/or leaving things out. I even added a dictionary, second translation to compare + auditor who compares and chooses but that didn’t fix everything. Maybe if it was ran using a 1T model like the paid ones but I wanted to focus om something anyone can run as my main target is people like me who occasionally run into a novel that is so unknown there are only bad MTL’s available. I translate using 12b and 27b models
I find you’re always going to have some deficiency with even LLM translation, especially when there's a lot of nuanced/almost-poetic usage or creative language used in these works (especially in korean). Some of it requires insider knowledge to translate properly within its context. LLMs are fantastic, but still have limitations.An English equivalent would be something like “he's a silver-spooned, silver-tongued pup with gold-plated dreams on a nickel budget” meaning “he'sa spoiled little brat talks who big but has unrealistic aspirations”, but could also mean “he's a savvy kid from means who is skilled/sly enough to accomplish a lot with very little” (ie. Lloyd) depending on how it is used. Not the best example, but hopefully it comes across
Yeah, I’ve thought about feeding the LLM lore that is relevant to the story (like DND for this one) or just Fandom Wiki dumps but the issue is that it’s hard to keep all of that in memory especially on consumer cards.
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boooooo stop separating Bjorn from his friends! you’ve done that like 3 times in a row!! its a perfectly valid plot development normally but the repetition is noticeable booooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve spent a whole two weeks creating an AI tool to translate novels yet even with the best LLM models, human translation still wins. Atleast the tool is a step up from the MTL’s we see online so often so it was not entirely a waste.