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Copy Japanese sentences and automatically generate translations or vocabulary lists using AI.Useful with a text hooking utility like Textractor.

Live translations, vocabulary lists.

Ask questions, with the previous lines as context. Uses ctrl+enter as a shortcut.

Additional features:

• Keeps a history of previous lines, so that translations can be more accurate.
• Allows for supplying a 'context' for a description of what you're translating (e.g. "These are twitter posts", or a list of characters in a story).

1. Install withpip install -r requirements.txt andpython -m unidic download.
2. Editsettings.toml to enable what you want.
3. For AI behaviors, you can either set a Google Gemini API key in the settings file.
   Or, install Oobabooga's Text-Generation-WebUI, enable the API and configure it in the settings file.
4. Start the app by enteringpython -m jp_vocab_monitor_ui [story_name].

You can also configure the program by creating auser.toml in the root directory. Then, settings will be loaded fromsettings.toml first, with any overlapping values overridden byuser.toml.

Per story configuration is also possible by adding a[story_name].toml in thesettings folder.
In particular, you can add synopsis to guide the AI with theai_translation_context key.

I've seen decent translation quality with the following local models:

• vntl-llama3-8b
• Command-R
• Mixtral-8x7B-instruct-cosmopedia-japanese20k

If you're going toask the AI questions about Japanese, I'd recommend using Google's Gemini Pro via API (Gemini 1.5's accuracy is great; and the free-tier rate limiting should be fine for reading).

For definitions and katakana readings in non-ML mode, we use a modifiedJitendex, which is under theShareAlike license.

For breaking sentences into words, we usefugashi.