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[ @Ashraf] v1.0.0. – not surprised that it doesn’t do anything but INSTALL. Please let the developer[s] know so I can look at it again, at v2.0.0.
[ @Ashraf] v1.0.0. – not surprised that it doesn’t do anything but INSTALL. Please let the developer[s] know so I can look at it again, at v2.0.0.
According to their website version 2 has already arrived:
Version 1 or Version 2
Version 1 translated what you pointed at. Version 2 reads your whole screen, live.Same goal, rebuilt from the ground up: a new reading engine, one live pipeline per screen, and a translator that runs entirely on your PC. A safe stage holds back garbage before it is translated, and the app picks the right speed for your hardware on its own. You stop operating a tool and simply read.
Sadly it does not translate in real-time it just translates OCR’d on screen text it’s pointed at not spoken text in real-time. I don’t think it does on screen text in real-time on stuff that is already printed on the screen not what is being printed in real-time though I could be wrong… I don’t think AFKSecurity marketing employees if there are any have English as their first language so do not understand what “in real-time” means. I personally doubt the offline translation modules will be accurate and have a full vocabulary. Also like AFKSecurity, this probably relies upon msedgewebview2.exe and its bloated system cache EBEWebview to build its User interface rather than a local clean GUI framework like QT or WXwidgets etc. I won’t be polluting my machine with it. Thankfully I don’t kneed it, firefox select right click translate suffices for my needs.
[@Stu] Hi Stu, developer here, thanks for giving it a try.
Version 1 doesn’t translate anything on its own, which is probably why it looked like it only installs. You start it from the small button at the top right (or from the tray icon), draw a box around the text you want, and the translation appears on top of it. On first use it also downloads the language pack for the language you picked, and depending on your connection that can take a few minutes, during which nothing seems to happen.
Version 2 is a separate program, AFKLiveTranslate 2, and it works the way you probably expected: you pick a screen and it finds and translates the text by itself, with no box to draw. There’s a 7-day free trial with every feature on the website if you want to look at it again.
[@TK] Hi TK, a few corrections since some of this is my fault for not explaining it clearly.
You’re right that it doesn’t translate speech. It never listens to audio; it reads text that’s drawn on the screen. “Real-time” means it keeps watching the screen, up to 20 times per second, and when text appears or changes (game dialogue, subtitles burned into a video, a chat window, a menu), it’s usually translated within about half a second, without you pointing at anything. That’s the difference with Version 1, where you had to draw a region and trigger it each time.
On accuracy, a fair point: the translation runs fully offline, so it’s good for understanding a game, a manual or a video, but it isn’t DeepL on long, complex sentences. That’s why there’s a 7-day trial with nothing to pay, so you can judge on your own content.
On the UI: no WebView2 and no Edge components. The interface is built with Qt, everything runs locally, and the uninstaller removes everything it created.
And yes, I’m a one-person developer from Belgium, French is my first language, so feedback on the wording of the site is welcome. If Firefox’s built-in translation covers what you need, that’s the right tool for web pages. AFKLiveTranslate 2 is meant for text you can’t select: games, video subtitles, apps and images.
[@TK] Hi TK, a few corrections since some of this is my fault for not explaining it clearly.
You’re right that it doesn’t translate speech. It never listens to audio; it reads text that’s drawn on the screen. “Real-time” means it keeps watching the screen, up to 20 times per second, and when text appears or changes (game dialogue, subtitles burned into a video, a chat window, a menu), it’s usually translated within about half a second, without you pointing at anything. That’s the difference with Version 1, where you had to draw a region and trigger it each time.
On accuracy, a fair point: the translation runs fully offline, so it’s good for understanding a game, a manual or a video, but it isn’t DeepL on long, complex sentences. That’s why there’s a 7-day trial with nothing to pay, so you can judge on your own content.
On the UI: no WebView2 and no Edge components. The interface is built with Qt, everything runs locally, and the uninstaller removes everything it created.
And yes, I’m a one-person developer from Belgium, French is my first language, so feedback on the wording of the site is welcome. If Firefox’s built-in translation covers what you need, that’s the right tool for web pages. AFKLiveTranslate 2 is meant for text you can’t select: games, video subtitles, apps and images. uno online
Appreciate the clarification on the tech stack. Differentiating between basic web text translation and on-screen OCR for non-selectable text helps set the right expectations for users coming from browser tools.
Merci pour les éclaircissements David.(Thank you for the clarification)
one more precision, since the two versions really are different tools.
Version 1 works on demand: you draw a region, it reads that area with Tesseract OCR and translates it with statistical machine translation, either offline with language packs or with your own DeepL, Azure or Google key.
Version 2 was rebuilt from the ground up. A new reading engine replaces Tesseract and watches the whole screen continuously, with one live pipeline per screen. A filtering stage holds back unreadable fragments before translation, and the statistical approach is replaced by a neural translator that runs entirely on your PC for 22 languages, choosing the right speed for your hardware on its own. No region to draw, no key, no cloud.
On speed: on my test PC, a full English Wikipedia page of 250 sentences is translated into French in 2.1 seconds, entirely offline.
On quality: for the best-supported languages, especially English, French, Spanish and German, my tests show results close to Google Translate on everyday text like game dialogue, subtitles or menus. Long, complex sentences and rarer languages remain harder, which is why the 7-day trial is the best way to judge on your own content.
Sajnos, az ígérettel ellentétben nem fordít “magyar” nyelvre, sőt, összesen 4 nyelvet ( angol. német, francia, japán) ismer, illetve ajánl fel célnyelvként.
[@Dezső] Köszönöm a visszajelzést, és elnézést a félreértésért! Igaza van: offline módban a v1 négy célnyelvet kínál (angol, német, francia, japán). A magyar és a többi nyelv a v1-ben csak saját API-kulccsal érhető el (DeepL, Azure vagy Google).
Az AFKLiveTranslate 2 viszont offline is támogatja a magyart: összesen 22 nyelvet kezel, és valós időben olvassa a teljes képernyőt. A weboldalon 7 napos ingyenes próbaverzió érhető el, a SharewareOnSale felhasználói pedig 40% kedvezményt kapnak a SOS40 kóddal.
Hi, version 2 installed from sharewareonsale doesn’t allow me to translate into Italian. Thanks.
[@Lucrezia] Hi, thanks for trying it! The SharewareOnSale giveaway is actually version 1, which explains it: offline, v1 only offers English, German, French and Japanese as target languages. Italian is available in v1 only with your own DeepL, Azure or Google API key.
AFKLiveTranslate 2 is a separate program that supports Italian offline, among 22 languages, and reads the whole screen live. There’s a 7-day free trial on the website, and SharewareOnSale users get 40% off with the code SOS40.
(Grazie per averlo provato! La versione 2 supporta l’italiano offline.)
A correction to my earlier replies, my mistake: version 1 only supports English, German, French and Japanese as target languages, even with your own API key. Adding more languages to v1 was a planned update, but I ended up putting all that work into AFKLiveTranslate 2 instead, which was rebuilt from the ground up and now supports 22 languages offline, including Hungarian and Italian.
Sorry for the confusion. If you need another language, the 7-day free trial of v2 is on the website, and SharewareOnSale users get 40% off with the code SOS40.
(Magyarul: elnézést, tévedtem. A v1 csak ezt a négy célnyelvet támogatja, API-kulccsal sem bővíthető. A magyar nyelv az AFKLiveTranslate 2-ben érhető el.)
Eeek no matter where you install this it will still use around 1.03GBytes per language conversion model you download on your system drive! There is NO option to place the downloaded models into a path of your choosing.
C:\Users\WINDOWS\AppData\Roaming\AFKLiveTranslate
I found the translations of youtube subtitles from EN to FR or DE to be quite messy with some odd unicode squares in the rendered text over the top of the original text… I’ve deleted it all as to unfriendly to the system drive and too restrictive on languages supported and at just over Gig of C: drive per language is too much IMHO.
[@TK] Hi TK,
On size: each language model is around 1 GB because translation runs fully offline on your PC. That’s the trade-off for not sending anything to a server. You’re right that v1 has no option to choose the storage path, but you can move the folder to another drive yourself. Close the app, then in a command prompt:
robocopy “%APPDATA%\AFKLiveTranslate” “D:\AFKLiveTranslate” /E /MOVE
mklink /J “%APPDATA%\AFKLiveTranslate” “D:\AFKLiveTranslate”(Replace D: with your drive. If the second command says the folder already exists, delete the empty folder first.) The app will then use the other drive without noticing.
On the odd squares: they come from OCR noise. Version 1 is one of my first tools, built months ago on Tesseract, which doesn’t let me clean that noise before translation. That’s exactly one of the reasons I rebuilt everything for AFKLiveTranslate 2: it uses a new reading engine and a filtering stage that holds back unreadable fragments before they’re translated.
Thanks again for testing it so thoroughly.
