Conquering the StarCraft: Brood War Translation Barrier with LLMs and Open Source
2025-01-17
A StarCraft: Brood War (BW) player tackled a long-standing community problem: translating Korean-language strategic analyses and commentary videos. BW's culture is heavily rooted in Korea, creating a significant barrier for non-Korean speakers. The author cleverly combined Whisper for transcription, Google Colab's free GPU resources, and ChatGPT for translation, alongside a custom userscript. This dramatically improved translation speed and accuracy, solving the 'Foreigner Knowledge' problem and making Korean-language BW insights accessible to a wider audience.