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v2.6 Multi-language update now live

I added multi-language support over the weekend:

  • Added support for Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.

  • Added 5 new fonts.

  • Added support for...

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OneTranslate 2024 Year-End Progress Update

The closed beta launch in March went fairly well, and since then, there have been significant research and development efforts into milestone 4. These developments are shaping up to deliver some am...

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Early Access week 1 report and Milestone 3

Early Access launch went as well as I could have expected! There are enough users that the server is always almost ways being used. This is useful for me to address stability issues and add feature...

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OneTranslate Early Access going live tonight

I'll be sending out invite keys starting sometime tonight between 8-9pm PST. I didn't have time to automate the process so I'll be doing it manually. This will be automated over the next week.

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OneTranslate Early Access Launching March 8th 2024

I’m happy to announce that OneTranslate will go into early access March 8th for all Reader (tier 2) Patrons and above. OneTranslate is an AI first manga translat...

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App launching early 2024

I’m targeting the app to release sometime in Feb 2024. Here is an sneak peek of the launch plans:

- This will be an invite only public alpha release.

- Priority will be given to Patro...

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GPT4 Unleashed

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth the number of total frames multiplied by a thousand. :P

I’ll let the video speak for itself.

Yes, I haven’t been updating th...

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V2 Editor UI

This project started out with the editor. I always thought that things like AI redraws and translations tech were ways out and an editor would be essential. I estimated that my editor would acceler...

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ChatGPT's Translation Skills are So Good, You'll Think a Human Did It!

I've added ChatGPT in my development build. Look at the results above. You tell me.

And yes, I asked ChatGPT to come up with the title :P

Edit: Uploaded image was wrong size. Should be ...

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Demystifying common translation issues

I thought it might be fun to address some of the common "issues" that you may see during the alpha tests. I am aware of almost all issues, but may not address them in a timely manner. Hopefully thi...

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A whole new AI world

In my last post, I mentioned that I set out 4 upcoming milestone. First of which was an UI overhaul that puts the emphasis on the human translator. Over the last few weeks I ended doing my mileston...

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Will be working extensively on the app over the next 3 weeks. Stay tuned.

Hoping to have the new ML models deployed by then. Cheers!

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Version 2

I apologize for the slow updates. There are stuff happening IRL that I just can't get away from, but I am working on the app! I've been doing a bunch of experiments on getting the app to the next l...

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Life has been weird and busy... Human assisted cleaning coming

Sorry for the lack of updates. As title indicates, life was in the way. But don't worry, I'm working on it whenever I can get the time.

Here's an early look on something I'm working on. I'll ...

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Improving OCR and continued public alpha test

I've been trying to improve the accuracy of OCR over the last couple of weeks. The new OCR AI is currently up on the public alpha site for you to check out. It is a culmination of a few things:

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I'm not limiting bubble count for Friday's alpha test!

Public alpha test #2 coming Friday 12pm PT! The test will last until Sunday midnight and I'll be monitoring the server throughout.

This test features fully automated speech bubble clean, tran...

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Public alpha testing #2 - now with translation - April 29th 12pm PT - May 1st 11:59pm PT

I'm happy to announce the second alpha test is coming on April 29th! This time we're testing the stability of translation/typesetting AI portion of the server. Since I'll be enabling the translatio...

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AI server has been up for over 2 weeks, 24/7! Next steps

Thanks to everyone who participated in the first ever public alpha stability test of my AI server! As a result I was able to fix a few bugs that caused disconnects and server crashes. The server ha...

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Public alpha testing this weekend, link inside

I'm running the first ever public alpha test of OneTranslate AI server this weekend Feb 19-21. I'll be monitoring the server the entire weekend and fix any issue that arise during the test. Please ...

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First ever public alpha testing on Feb 19th 12pm PST to Feb 21st 11:59am PST

The first ever public alpha testing of OneTranslate is coming! The primary goal is to test the stability of the servers. Being a first test, only the bubble cleaning feature provided. It will be do...

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Dedicated AI server build complete! AI performance improvements incoming

First of all, happy new year! Hope everyone had a great holiday. I got a good chunk of time to work on the project and I have some great progress to report!

AI dedicated server is don...

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Insight into overlay text segmentation, and dedicated server update

I'll get the latter out of the way first. The dedicated server is about half way built. I just got Tensorflow built on it and is in process of building and hooking up rest of software. Vacation tim...

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Batch mode done! What's coming next will be a big deal…

Batch mode is finally done! You'll now be able to upload multiple pages, clean, translate, and typeset all in one place. There are two buttons that allows to download all edited or cleared pages. View Post

Quick batch mode update

I've been especially busy the past month so progress is a bit slower than usual. However, batch mode is coming along nicely! All of the core features are in place and most of the remaining work is ...

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Work in progress update on an even better batch mode

The original plan was add a batch mode that allows the user to upload multiple pages simultaneously and clean all the bubbles. This feature is probably the most asked for as bubble cleaning is a ve...

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Server side rendering! A comparison

If you followed my last post you'll remember that one of the reported issue was that the font rendering on Windows looked too thin while macOS and Linux doesn't have this issue. ClearType on Window...

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Quality of life updates (WIP)

This one is all about making the app simpler to use. All of changes are based off user feedback.

Font size selection changed to + - buttons

The automated line breaking ...

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Upgrading machine learning hardware!

I started this project by training on a GTX 970M, yeah a mobile graphic card. It was slow as hell and training took days for mediocre results. But eventually I got down to a model that gave an usab...

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Bold and italic done! (maybe underline in the future)

This one was more tedious than expected, largely because the rendering needs to backend and frontend to match in order to produce accurate line breaking. So sets of rendering logic need to be writt...

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Week 1 Update

I had to the privilege of chatting with a few experienced translators and typesetters and got some feedback on current state of the app. Here are the top 3 backlog based on the aggregate feedback:<...

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