We decided to switch to PyQt in the end despite having a half-done GUI on Tkinter It also had a rather complicated process for GUI creation.

We used Tkinter for our GUI initially, but we had lots of difficulties using it for searching the borders of the screen for translation.Tkinter for measuring screen dimensions.If your eyes got tired, we got text2speech for you too! How we built it: With DeskTranslate, just sit back and relax as translated text seamlessly gets displayed on your screen. No longer do you have to break immersion by going through the hassle of copying and pasting foreign text onto Google translate (if it is even possible - as many times words are not being displayed in copy-able format). What it does:ĭeskTranslate is a tool which does live translation of any application on your desktop using optical character recognition technology. With DeskTranslate, it may assist these people in alleviating their problem by translating these texts to another language (which they can recognise) or even perform text2speech if they prefer an audio experience.

Vision problems and learning disabilities like dyslexia pose a great challenge for many to read and decipher visual content such as English alphabets. While awesome, translation software like Google translate only works on either web or the mobile application, but none supports the seamless translation and display of information which a user needs.įurthermore, not everything is in copyable text format, you might be trying to read a copyright protected PDF, or perhaps some infographic, making the task of finding the appropriate text to translate an arduous task! This frustration led us to build DeskTranslate. The same problem applies not just to games, but any form of media and software we use today.

Found an amazing game you wish to play online but it is not in English? You could only wait and hope for it to be translated one day. We are in the 21st century, and yet many things we do on our computers are still bound by language barriers.

Google translate desktop app