Cultivating the Dao of MTL

Mortals: Just read the translated novels and hoping for someone to pick up content that hasn't been translated.

Qi Refining level:
using google translate to read the web page for the raw. Suffering heart demons like pronoun mix up, literal translations that doesn't make sense, missing context. Using Youtube auto subtitle translate to watch Donghua. Using immersive translate to read Manhua and use google translate.

Foundation Building level:
Copy and paste web pages to LLMs like chatgpt/claude/gemini. or provide API keys to immersive Translate to read novel and manhua. Better translation, less mixing up of pronouns, but have missing details and inconsistency due to hallucination. Context is only at the chapter level. Using Chrome accessibility feature to auto transcribe audio and translate Donghua on any site.

Golden Core Level:
Using Advanced prompts and custom scripts to make LLMs refine its output, augment with glossary to have consistent translation and avoid missing context. (cheat by Paying for sites like readomni.com that has a custom tuned model and support for corrections/glossary. ) Turn entire novel from website to epub and read off-line.

Nascent Soul Level:
Buy 4090s or mac studio to run local LLM such as Qwen2.5-70B to translate the novel with auto generated glossary based on the novel been translated. Setup character profiles with SillyTavern to role play favorite characters from the novel.

Divine Transformation level:
fine-tune a base model with professionally translated web novels and train it to output in a particular literary style of your own liking. Utilizing multi-agent setup to do glossary generation, translate, post-edit, review for best translation quality. Setup website to offer the result as a service for profit.

and finally Ascend to the Heavens:
Use ChatGPT OMNI to learn Chinese and be your own LLM.