Local Chat Translation

Local chat translation is available in the SheevChat 2.9.0 beta. It adds a machine translation beneath eligible messages in the desktop chat. The original message remains visible and is the text used by chat overlays, commands, and moderation.

Set Up Translation

  1. In the desktop app, open Settings → General → Local Chat Translation.
  2. Download the translation model. The download is about 610 MB.
  3. Choose English or Spanish under Translate chat into. Use interface language follows your SheevChat language setting.
  4. Turn on local chat translation and wait for Local translation is ready.

The feature is opt-in. It can use an additional 1–2 GB of RAM while enabled because the model stays loaded. Turn off local chat translation to release that memory. Translation runs on your PC after the download.

Supported Incoming Languages

SheevChat can automatically translate the following source languages when it can reliably identify the language. English and Spanish are also the available reading targets. Messages already in your chosen target stay as written.

  • Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech
  • Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian
  • Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish
  • Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian
  • Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Western Frisian, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu

What to Expect in Chat

Short or mixed-language messages may stay in their original form. Standalone reactions such as LOL and LMAO stay as written. Machine translations can miss slang, gaming terms, or details, so check the original when wording matters.