08/05/2024
📚✨TRANSLATE AND CREATE BILINGUAL EBOOKS WITH CHATGPT? 🤩
Today, I found a tool called Bilingual Book Maker that can translate an entire epub file into any language using ChatGPT. It then exports the file as an epub for me. ChatGPT translates much better than Google Translate. Of course, the quality is not perfect, but it reads quite smoothly. Currently, AI is not "smart" enough to distinguish personal pronouns based on context. However, with human proofreading, it can be as good as published translated books (in fact, many officially published translated books are not well translated). The tool can export a bilingual epub file as shown in the picture or a file with just the translated language. The book I tested is "Recursion" by Blake Crouch.
GitHub: https://github.com/yihong0618/bilingual_book_maker
Instruction: https://hossie.notion.site/Bilingual_book_maker-Openai-caa7e5f9dd86450698e4a0a15a961bd3
The tool is free, but you have to pay to use the ChatGPT API. For instance, translating "Recursion" by Blake Crouch cost about $1.5. It takes about 20-30 minutes to translate a book of around 400-500 pages. In the near future, the translation profession will certainly be affected by AI. E-readers integrated with ChatGPT for direct translation would be amazing.
Source: Collected