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Music Lyrics Translator
A web app that translates Korean and Japanese music lyrics to English while preserving poetic meaning, cultural nuance, and syllable rhythm.
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Overview
Standard machine translation often strips the poetic quality from song lyrics. This tool uses a custom fine-tuned GPT model with prompting strategies to produce translations that feel natural in English while retaining the original emotional tone and cultural references.
Features
- Side-by-side original and translated lyrics view
- Romanization (romaji/romanization) overlay
- Cultural footnotes for idioms and references
- Multiple translation "styles" (literal, poetic, singable)
- Support for Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin