Offline AI Translation Tools

DeskTranslate translates text visible in games, videos, menus and images for people who want to read it without switching applications. It can translate a single selection or follow changing dialogue in a chosen screen region.

ChatGPT Subtitle Translator translates SRT subtitles for people who need translated text to stay matched to the original entries. It supports local Ollama models and OpenAI-compatible providers, so you can choose where translation runs.

Transcribe Anything turns recordings and online videos into text and subtitles using Whisper-based speech recognition. It's a command-line tool with a Python API for people processing media locally or adding transcription to their own applications.

Nextcloud Assistant brings AI tasks into Nextcloud Hub for teams working with shared files, email and conversations. It lets an organization choose local processing on its own server or a hosted model provider.

Lingolay is a free, open source screen translator for people who want translated subtitles while playing games or watching videos. It reads visible text with OCR, translates it on your computer and displays the result in a floating overlay. Optional Piper voices read the translations aloud.

AudioToText turns recordings into text and captions for people who need transcripts or subtitles in different languages. It can process audio on your computer with Whisper or use cloud processing.

Whisper WebUI turns recordings into transcripts and subtitles through a browser interface running on your own machine. It's for people captioning videos or translating speech who want local audio processing.

PDFMathTranslate translates scientific papers for readers who need the text in another language while keeping equations and figures in context. It produces translated and bilingual PDFs so readers can compare the result with the original.

Whisper ASR Webservice gives developers a speech-to-text API for their own applications and services. It processes audio on your machine or server and supports multilingual transcription, speech translation and language identification.

ReadAny is an AI e-book reader for people who want to question a book, find an idea they remember imperfectly and keep notes alongside their reading. It combines a personal library with answers tied to book passages.

insanely-fast-whisper is a command-line audio transcription tool for people who want to process recordings on their own hardware. It focuses on reducing transcription time through GPU acceleration.

Interpreter translates Japanese game text into English subtitles over the game window. It's aimed at retro-game players, with MeikiOCR tuned for Japanese game text and pixel fonts. The default MeikiOCR and Sugoi V4 models run locally without internet access after setup.

SpeechPulse is a dictation and transcription app for people who want to write by voice or turn recordings into text. Its Whisper speech recognition runs locally, so dictation can work without an internet connection.

TranslateLocally translates text on your own computer for people who want local machine translation and teams working with their own translation models. It uses Marian and Bergamot, with a desktop interface for everyday text and command-line access for batch work.

Speaches is a self-hosted speech server for developers building transcription services and voice applications. Its OpenAI-compatible API lets existing clients and SDKs work with speech models running on hardware you control.

Whisper Desktop turns audio and video recordings into transcripts and subtitles on your computer. It's for people working with interviews, lectures, podcasts or videos who want a desktop interface for transcription and captioning.

Voxtral Small is an audio and text model for developers building self-hosted speech applications. The separate mistral-inference library is archived and no longer maintained; this model runs with vLLM or Hugging Face Transformers.