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I wanted to read public domain texts in my native Japanese via an LLM. However, LLM translations aren’t perfect. So I built a system that shows translated text
by tomolld 2y ago
I wanted to read public domain texts in my native Japanese via an LLM. However, LLM translations aren’t perfect.
So I built a system that shows translated text inline and lets users vote on the best translations, ensuring only the most accurate ones remain. If enough people participate, good translations should naturally emerge.
Still, that alone might not attract many users, so I also added a feature allowing anyone to post their own articles—essentially a global publishing platform like Medium. By registering a Gemini API key, you can enable translation into various languages.
https://evame.tech/en/user/evame/page/luoshengmen-db5 https://evame.tech/en/user/evame/page/luoshengmen-db5
Here’s a link to a popular short story (well-known in Japanese school textbooks). I’d be grateful if you could read it and vote on the translations!
- yorwba 2y agoI recommend turning the characters that Aozora Bunko represents using image files into the corresponding Unicode. IIRC, the file name contains the men, ku and ten parameters which you can use to derive the corresponding Shift JIS 2004 byte representation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS#Shift_JISx0213_and_Shift_JIS-2004 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS#Shift_JISx0213_and... and then turn into Unicode using standard transcoding utilities.
- tomolld 2y agoThank you! I hadn’t thought of that approach. I’ll try!