I added multi-language support over the weekend:
Added support for Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.
Added 5 new fonts.
Added support for special characters; note that not all fonts support special characters.
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2025-01-14 07:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 amazing advancements in 2025.
Beta Plans and Rationale
Originally, I planned...
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 features as people request them.
If you’ve been following my milestones from previous posts, I’ve...
2024-03-19 05:53:21 +0000 UTC View PostI'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.
Once you have your key, you can register at 2024-03-09 02:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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 translation and editing tool. It aims to provide at least 10x speed up in manga translation and editing comp...
2024-02-12 01:39:55 +0000 UTC View PostI’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 Patrons. Patrons will be able to invite others for free.
- Secondary free access will be available ...
2023-11-12 19:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostIf 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 the core translation engine. I took a detour to work on getting an AI assistant working because it was...
2023-08-29 06:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 accelerate the translation process by more than 5x. However, I'm confident that fully automated AI manga tr...
2023-05-08 06:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 fixed now.
2023-03-14 08:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostI 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 this post demystifies how I tackle these issues based on my development style.
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 milestone 2 first...
I was on a roll...
2023-01-17 11:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostHoping to have the new ML models deployed by then. Cheers!
2022-12-14 02:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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 level, and I believe I figured out all the missing pieces to solve fully automated translation. This ...
2022-10-04 08:31:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 have more to say later.
2022-07-08 09:55:40 +0000 UTC View PostI'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:
1. New OCR LSTM model. The previous model was using a modified version of the Tesseract's best Ja...
2022-05-31 02:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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, translation, and typesetting. Like last time the primary goal is to test the stability of the server wit...
2022-04-28 07:57:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 translation AI, this test will run in limited manner to prevent abuse. Therefore, all pages will be:
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 has been live for the past two weeks with no disconnects and crashes so far. I'm going to keep it live...
2022-03-07 08:35:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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 report all issues and feedback in this the2022-02-17 06:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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 done over the 3 day long weekend so mark your calendars. If you wanted do some automated bubble cleani...
2022-01-25 11:05:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 done!
The dedicated AI server well and working! All of the software has been setup and m...
2022-01-10 07:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostI'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 time is coming up so I'll be able to dedicate way more time to work on this project. I expect to have s...
2021-11-29 04:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
This marks a significant milestone in the development of the app as the current feature set is ...
2021-10-04 08:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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 about hooking up the UI. Soon, you'll be able to batch clear, translate, edit and/or download all in...
2021-09-13 09:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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 very time consuming task for a human.
After a few design iterations of how this would work, I ca...
2021-08-19 05:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Windows seems to affect text rendering regardless of which browser was used. So in order to produce consis...
2021-07-28 07:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 doesn't guarantee that the selected font size will work. For example, the algorithm determines that ...
2021-07-08 08:48:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 usable accuracy and I decided to go all out with a GTX 1080Ti (I've been using AMD on desktop for years)...
2021-06-21 04:35:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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 written and synced on completely different platforms, and all rendering implementations are custom. On to...
2021-06-08 09:17:04 +0000 UTC View PostI 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:
1. Bold, italic, underline
2. Quality of life changes (auto defaults, rendering issues, ...
2021-05-11 04:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post