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That doesn't sound like something that's going to work out well. Translating names of items should be fine, but dialog... I'm dubious. You can't just flat-out translate from language to language. The same text will translate differently from character to character, depending on the character and the character's mood. Kingdom Come in particular has an extra issue in that you aren't going to straight-up contemporary English, and you sure aren't going to 15th century English, either. It seems like you would need a model for each character, which doesn't sound all that economical to me.
Mind you, if it CAN be made to work, like some third-party tool that will take whatever language is used and translate it to any others the tool knows, it would be really incredible! As English speakers, getting a game to speak our language is rarely an issue, but it's a heck of a problem for the rest of the world. If even small gaming companies could just plug in something like Speed Tree in and get good translations for 90% of the world, it would be awesome!
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@BeardyHat and
@Kaamos_Llama
This absolutely works and you only need one LLM to do it. Points and then an example I ran with CoPilot
1) An LLM can be made to remember everything you tell it. So you could put prompts in for each NPC like "This man tends to be gruff and in hurried." "This NPC is meek and overly respectful" and then it can reason out how they would respond to whatever is going on.
2) A big LLM like CoPilot knows every single language and is proficient in them all down to time periods. It knows all the dialects, it knows the social classes.
3) It is already working and is already plug-and-play. But you can also assign people to it, type in prompts and get exactly what you need.
Now, the below example is a little different. It's not a translation, and I actually asked CoPilot to make up the lines. Writing is not CoPilot's strongest feature. I wouldn't have any LLM do writing. So kind of ignore that part of it and look at the rest:
My Prompt
"An angry and very busy official of the king's court brushes off someone's question about getting the roads repaired near his farm. The official is curt and seems to think this is unimportant. this should sound like old English but be understandable to modern audiences."
CoPilot's Response
“God’s wounds, man, pester me not with thy petty ruts and cow‑paths.
The King’s business lies heavy upon my desk, and I’ve no leisure for a clod’s complaints.
Take thy grievance to the reeve and trouble me no further.”
My follow-up prompt
a response from the meek but desperate farmer?
CoPilot's Response
“Beg pardon, good sir, I meant no offence.
Only the cart‑way is so foul with mire that my beasts near founder,
and without the road mended I fear my harvest shall be lost.
I crave but a moment of thy grace, naught more.”
Again, that's not even remotely how I would write that scene, but it doesn't have to write the scene. The translation is basically giving it guardrails.
