ChatLinguist: web-based youtube live stream automatic chat message translator
Jason Christopher Chandra, Nunung Nurul Qomariyah · Procedia Computer Science · 2023
Live streaming has become a very popular activity that Indonesians with access to the Internet participate in everyday, there are already many live streaming platforms available on the market, such as YouTube and Twitch, however these platforms are not region-locked, which means that viewers are able to watch streamers from other regions of the world. This means that a streamer can reach a wider audience, but it also means that language barriers are more apparent than ever. This issue can be seen when an Indonesian viewer watches a streamer who can only speak in English, as English is not the viewers mother tongue, the viewer will not feel as interactive as possible, this is especially true because the viewer is not able to communicate and interact with other viewers through the live stream chat box, as the chat box is probably utilizing English as the main language. Therefore, the author wanted to create a web application that can help solve this issue by translating YouTube Live chat box messages from English to Indonesian while also being able to translate Indonesian messages inputted by the user into English before sending it into the livestream chat box. This web application implements Django as its main framework and depends on Python libraries and YouTube API calls for its main functionality, while the translation process depends on Artificial Intelligence.