Translate your games in real-time with AI-powered OCR and LLM technology
🔥 Real-time Translation
- Live automatic translations using EasyOCR, PaddleOCR and Windows OCR
- Powerful overlay chat window for visual novels
- Full-screen translation capability
- Can display translated text overlaid on the original text in the selected area (Hotkey Alt+F, only work win 11)
🤖 AI-Powered Translation
- Support for multiple LLMs: Gemini, ChatGPT, Ollama, Mistral
- Google Translate integration
- Context-aware translations for better accuracy
🎯 Smart Recognition
- Game-specific translation optimization
- Previous context consideration
- Character and location name recognition
🔊 Additional Features
- Text-to-speech functionality
- 100% local translation option with Ollama
- Windows 10+ and (Required)
- Windows 11 for display translated text overlaid on the original text feature (Optional)
- NVIDIA GPU (Recommended for best performance, Optional)
- Game in windowed/borderless mode (Required)
- Download the latest version from Releases
- Extract the zip file to your desired location
- Install Conda For the Conda installation guide, follow this link (See on Installation and Usage)
📋 Step-by-step Setup
- Run
RSTGameTranslation/rst.exe - Go to Settings → OCR tab: Choose OCR method
- Go to Settings → Language tab: Choose source and target languages (If you are using Windows OCR, please click the "Check" button to verify the language pack before starting)
- Go to Settings → Translation tab: Select your preferred translation service
- Click SetupServer button (Skip if using Windows OCR)
- Wait 5-15 minutes for setup completion
- Look for "environment setup completed" message
- Click StartServer and wait for connection confirmation (Skip if using Windows OCR)
- Select translate area (ALT+Q or Click on SelectArea button)
- Click Start button (ALT+G) to begin translation
- View results in ChatBox or Monitor window
- Add your Gemini API key in settings (You can enter multiple API keys, press Enter after entering each API key)
- Configure game name for better context (context tab)
- Adjust other settings as needed
| Shortcut | Function | Note |
|---|---|---|
Alt + G |
Start/Stop | Works globally |
Alt + Q |
Select Translation Area | Works globally |
Alt + F |
Show/Hide Monitor Overlay | Works globally |
Alt + C |
Show/Hide ChatBox | Works globally |
Alt + P |
Show/Hide Settings | Works globally |
Alt + L |
Show/Hide Log Console | Works globally |
RSTGameTranslation automatically checks for updates on startup. When available:
- Download from notification or Releases page
- Close the application
- Extract new files over existing installation
- Restart - your settings are preserved!
- OCR: PaddleOCR (Better for Asian languages, lower resource usage)
- LLM: Gemini Flash 2 Lite (Fast and accurate)
- NVIDIA: PaddleOCR or EasyOCR
- AMD, INTEL: Windows OCR
- Windows OCR: Lightweight but less accurate for gaming
- Ollama: 100% local translation (RTX 4090: ~5s per translation)
- ChatGPT: GPT-4.1 Nano for premium results
- Smaller translation areas = faster processing
- NVIDIA GPU highly recommended
- First-time language downloads may take 1-2 minutes
- The application will automatically change API keys if the previous API is rate-limited, so please enter as many API keys as possible
- The translation speed depends on the LLM model; if you are using Gemini, you should check the translation speed at here
- Open solution in Visual Studio 2022
- Click compile (dependencies should auto-download)
- Use VSCode for development/debugging
- Built on EasyOCR and PaddleOCR foundations
Privacy: Only checks GitHub for version updates. Cloud translation services (Gemini, ChatGPT) will see translated content. Ollama keeps everything local.
Performance: CPU-only mode will use 30-50% CPU power. Dedicated NVIDIA GPU strongly recommended.
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This project is licensed under BSD-style attribution - see LICENSE.md for details.
Acknowledgments: This product includes software developed by Seth A. Robinson - UGTLive
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