Backstory

In Chinese, the character for love is 愛 ("ài").

In tech, AI (artificial intelligence) represents the possibility of high-quality, affordable, and fast translations.

Our goal is to leverage AI with 愛 to connect the global community of readers, writers, and translators.

Why? The short story is we love this community, and are avid writers and readers ourselves.

The less-short story is that we've noticed for years now that MTL / automated translations (even the latest AI!) suffer tremendously as they scale to hundreds of pages rather than just a few sentences - inconsistent naming, misgendered characters, forgetting key context, and more.

This made reading an incredibly frustrating experience. So, we went about solving this problem for ourselves... and thus, AI Novel Translation came to be.

We solved our own problem, and, if you're here, we believe we solved your problem too.

Contact Us

Reach out with any questions or feedback to ainoveltranslation@gmail.com

FAQ

Why AI Novel Translation over other solutions?

We believe our product stands for itself - give it a try!
In addition to what we've written on the home page and above, we really did try all the popular solutions including DeepL, Google Translate, ChatGPT, etc and found ourselves frustrated by products that weren't designed for the intricacies of novels, inconsistent translations that never met our quality bar, user experiences that required us to jump through far too many hoops with far too many hiccups, and more.
If the above sounds familiar, we think you'd also love what we've built.

Why isn't AI Novel Translation free?

Large-language models cost quite a bit of money to run; even moreso when you intentionally choose to not sacrifice on quality as some other offerings do (e.g., translating in parallel, less performant models, etc).
To grow AI Novel Translation sustainably without compromising our dedication to quality, we've implemented a pay-per-use model that ensures you get nothing but our best.

What languages are supported?

We currently support translations INTO the following languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese.
As for what languages we support translating FROM, all languages are supported. This means you can upload a novel in any language for translation!
Of note, we add support for new languages in partnership with and in response to our community. Are we missing your language? We’d love to hear from you at ainoveltranslation@gmail.com.

Is translation quality equivalent across all languages?

Across all translation services (including ours), quality will tend to be correlated with how widely spoken a language is - how much written text exists? How many videos exist? How many voice recordings exist?
As a result, all other things equal, languages like English and Spanish that have higher representation globally will tend to have more fluent translations than say Cherokee and Gaelic.
With that being said, 1) we’re improving quality every day across our supported languages and 2) our community reminds us daily that while some languages aren’t at English fluency, they emphatically choose us again and again because they find the experience just that much better.

I have a large novel and/or multiple novels - what’s the easiest way to translate at scale?

Check out Batch Translation - all the power of AI Novel Translation at the click of a button. It’ll save you potentially hundreds of clicks, automatically segment your novel into chapters with Structure AI, and of course take advantage of Glossary AI.
To access Batch Translation, navigate to the project page for your novel and click on the Batch Translate button - this will kick off the Batch Translation wizard to guide you through the process and provide a quote. Then just step back, let the website work its magic, and come back to the world’s best translations (typically under 2 hours for most novels).

Should I manually translate chapter by chapter or just Batch Translate? Is there a difference?

The good news is there’s no wrong way. It’s just a matter of personal preference and what you're optimizing for.
If it’s helpful, we often see a spectrum. At one end, the “meticulous translators” - they translate one chapter at a time, review the output, tweak the glossary, and repeat until completion. At the other end, “vibe translators” - those who upload a novel, occasionally provide custom instructions, and then just let it rip.
Both extremes are valid, with most users translating somewhere in between.

Do you train on my data?

The short answer, no.
The slightly longer answer, you've worked tremendously hard to generate one of a kind work. We not only value but respect this dedication to craft. Thus, we have not and do not train our models on any uploaded content.

Can I expect professional-grade translations?

We believe in transparency and honesty. We won’t pretend that AI Novel Translation will equal the quality of the best human translator in the world for a particular language who spends thousands of hours translating a single novel. Frankly, no online service will (…yet!)
However, AI Novel Translation is used by translators, readers, writers, and publishers the world over for a reason.
In our users’ words, we provide unmatched speed (“translations in minutes rather than months”), quality (“translations I would think came from a human”), and pricing (“translations that cost $$ not $$$$$”).

What is Glossary AI?

Glossary AI is an innovative technique we pioneered that automatically collects, translates, and stores the most important terms in your translation.
It's a powerful tool that's been pivotal to achieving fluent translations that are consistent across hundreds of pages with minimal human effort.
And it's still getting better!

How does Glossary AI work?

This is part of our secret sauce, but at a high level Glossary AI automatically saves the most important terms in your translation. These terms are then: 1. automatically replaced in future translations and 2. provide additional context that significantly raises translation accuracy
While we've found Glossary AI pretty much runs on auto-pilot, you can manually add, remove, or edit terms for maximum effectiveness and personalization.

Does Glossary AI cost anything?

Glossary AI is priced similar to our translation services and requires using our most powerful model. To turn it off, toggle the setting before translating.

What are Custom Instructions?

Everybody has their own style! Custom Instructions are another powerful tool we pioneered that enables you to add your own voice to the translation.
Write custom instructions ranging from how strictly to follow the original formatting to your preferred tone to recommendations on interpretation and more.