SakiRinn / LiveCaptions-Translator

 
# LiveCaptions Translator
### *Real-time audio/speech translation tool based on Windows LiveCaptions*
**English** | 中文
## Overview
**✨ LiveCaptions Translator = Windows LiveCaptions + Translate API ✨**
This is a lightweight tool that seamlessly integrates translation APIs with Windows Live Captions, enabling real-time speech translation without requiring a Copilot+ PC.
Windows' built-in LiveCaptions is easy to use, uses few resources, and has extremely high recognition accuracy. If empowering it with the awesome translation capabilities of LLMs, you will get... possibly the best real-time translator available to date!
**🚀 Quick Start:** Download from Releases and start with a single click!
 Preview of LiveCaptions Translator 
## Features
- **🔄 Seamless Integration**
 Automatically invokes Windows LiveCaptions without opening separate windows. Provides a unified experience for real-time audio/speech translation.
 After your first use, Windows LiveCaptions will be hidden by default. You can show it again in the settings.
 LiveCaptions Show/Hide button 
 By enabling the ***Include microphone audio*** option in the setting of Windows LiveCaptions, you can achieve real-time speech translation!
 > ⚠️ **IMPORTANT:** You must change the source language in Windows LiveCaptions!
- **🎨 Modern Interface**
 Easy-to-use and clean Fluent UI aligned with modern Windows aesthetics.
 It can automatically switches between light and dark themes 🌓 based on the system setting.
- **🌐 Multiple Translation Services**
 Supports various translation engines, including 2 out-of-the-box Google Translate.
 Implemented translation engines are shown in the table below:
 | API | Type | Hosting |
 |-----------------------------------------------------|-------------|-------------|
 | Ollama | LLM-based | Self-hosted |
 | OpenAI Compatible API | LLM-based | Online |
 | OpenRouter | LLM-based | Online |
 | Google Translate | Traditional | Online |
 | DeepL | Traditional | Online |
 | Youdao | Traditional | Online |
 | Baidu Translate | Traditional | Online |
 | MTranServer | Traditional | Self-hosted |
 | LibreTranslate | Traditional | Self-hosted |
 It's strongly recommended using **LLM-based** translation engines, as LLMs excel at handling incomplete sentences and are adept at understanding context.
- **🪟 Overlay Window**
 Open a borderless, transparent overlay window to display subtitles, providing the most immersive experience. This is very useful for scenarios like gaming, videos, and live streams!
 You can even make it completely embedded into the screen, becoming part of it. This means it won't affect any of your operations at all! This is perfect for gamers.
 Overlay window 
 You can open the Overlay Window on the taskbar and adjust its parameters such as the window background and subtitle color, font size, and transparency. Extremely high configurability allows it to completely match your preferences!
 You can adjust the number of sentences displayed simultaneously in the