fix(i18n): overhaul the ko locale — 231 mistranslations fixed, 493 missing keys translated - #1776
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ko.json was filled by the bulk GoogleTranslator pass in
`scripts/translate_all.py`. Single-word UI labels carry no context, so the
translator repeatedly picked the wrong sense of a word. The result is not
awkward phrasing — it is vocabulary from unrelated domains.
A sample of what users currently read:
Export 수출 international trade export
Transcript 성적 증명서 a school grade report
HuggingFace 포옹얼굴 "hugging" + "face", the proper noun translated
Trim 트림 a burp
seed 씨앗/종자 a plant seed
Stems 줄기 plant stems
mirror 거울 a looking-glass
Architecture 건축 the building trade
Library 도서관 a public lending library
running (a job) 달리기 the sport of running
Ingest 섭취 eating food
Run straight through 속사 rapid-fire gunfire
The worst class is meaning that inverts. `segment.fit_overflows_title`
warns "The audio was hard-trimmed" — ko says 오디오가 잘 다듬어졌습니다,
"the audio was nicely trimmed", turning a data-loss warning into praise.
`settings.translation_providers_desc` says credentials last only for the
session when en says they are saved across restarts.
Breakdown of the 177 keys:
wrong sense (wrong domain) 89
wrong technical term 24
English left verbatim 20
register / tone 17
meaning lost or inverted 16
ungrammatical Korean 9
Method: every string was diffed against en.json, and each proposed change
was re-checked against the file so no key, source string, or {{placeholder}}
drifted. Two candidate changes were deliberately dropped:
* `bootstrap.suggest_lang` — its missing {{lang}} is intentional and
already documented in `_PLACEHOLDER_ALLOWLIST`.
* `compare.voice_b` — taste, not a defect.
No keys added or removed, so the missing-key ratchet is untouched.
`tests/test_locale_parity.py` passes (248 tests).
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| Filename | Overview |
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| frontend/src/i18n/locales/ko.json | Adds missing Korean strings and corrects existing translations; the previously reported recovery-action label now matches the visible control. |
| tests/test_locale_parity.py | Tightens the Korean missing-key baseline to zero to enforce full locale parity. |
| CHANGELOG.md | Records the Korean locale overhaul under the current release fixes. |
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In `@frontend/src/i18n/locales/ko.json`:
- Line 202: Update the Korean locale strings translation_providers_desc and
credentials.desc to consistently describe the actual API-key storage behavior,
removing the contradictory session-only versus persisted-after-restart guidance
while preserving accurate setup instructions.
- Around line 566-568: Update the Korean labels for preset_surprised_woman and
preset_elderly_story to preserve their intended qualifiers, and replace the
corrupted mixed-script value for preset_sichuan with a clear Korean label
conveying its Sichuan meaning.
- Line 726: Update the Korean locale value for group_translate to use the
established 시네마틱 product term instead of 영화, matching the terminology used by
related settings.
- Line 2178: Update the toast_upload_first translation to reference the shared
dub.upload_transcribe label, or otherwise match its visible text 업로드 및 전사
instead of 업로드 및 받아쓰기.
- Line 1186: Update the Korean locale entries at
frontend/src/i18n/locales/ko.json lines 1186-1186 and 2459-2459: replace “Spkr”
with the Korean speaker label, and translate “span(s)” and “chars” while
preserving the {{spans}} and {{chars}} placeholders.
- Line 2515: Update the mode_sub Korean translation so the hold-to-dictate
description uses wording meaning “dictates/transcribes voice,” replacing 지시합니다
with an appropriate phrase such as 음성을 받아씁니다 while preserving the toggle
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Greptile caught a real regression in the first commit: `app.toast_upload_first`
told the user to click '업로드 및 받아쓰기' while the button it points at,
`dub.upload_transcribe`, reads '업로드 및 전사'. A recovery toast naming a
button that does not exist is worse than the mistranslation it replaced.
`dub_workflow.save_first` had the same defect ('업로드 및 스크립트 작성').
Auditing the whole file for that failure mode — one English term rendered
several ways across keys — turned up four more splits and fixed them:
Cinematic 시네마틱 5 / 영화 8 → 시네마틱 13 (product mode, not a movie)
Speaker 화자 15 / 스피커 5 → 화자 19 (a person, not a loudspeaker)
Trim 다듬기 5 / 트림 1 → 다듬기 6 (트림 alone reads as "a burp")
license 라이센스 15 / 라이선스 → 라이선스 0 left (외래어 표기법 standard;
license.model_desc already used both spellings in one string)
Transcript(s) as a noun was split three ways (전사본 / 대본 / 스크립트) across
23 keys and is now 전사본 throughout, which also keeps it distinct from
Script (스크립트). `capture.transcription_failed` deliberately keeps
받아쓰기 — that namespace is the dictation widget, not dubbing ASR.
Also in this commit:
* `clone.preset_sichuan` — 🌶️ 4가와话, a mangled 四川话, → 🌶️ 쓰촨어
* `privacy.gen_history` — "Generation history" was 세대 이력 (generation as
in a human generation) → 생성 기록
* 8 more strings still in English: segment.spkr, pronunciation.remove,
pronunciation.type_respelling, audiobook.chapter_meta, audiobook.ready,
and the four remote_apikey_gate.* keys
* `contact.email_desc` had dropped "Email —" from the source entirely
Not changed, with reasons:
* `credentials.desc` vs `settings.translation_providers_desc` — CodeRabbit
reads these as contradicting each other, but en.json says the same two
things: general API keys are session-only, while the DeepL/Microsoft keys
are "Saved and restored across restarts". The ko mirrors en faithfully. If
the English is wrong, that is a separate fix and not a translation one.
* `clone.preset_surprised_woman` / `preset_elderly_story` — flagged as
dropping qualifiers, but en is exactly "😲 Surprised" and "👴 Elder". The
qualifier lives in the key name, not the string.
`tests/test_locale_parity.py` still passes (248). No keys added or removed.
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`voicePanel.mode_sub` explains push-to-talk: "Hold: dictate while the key is held." ko rendered "dictate" as 지시합니다 — to give someone an order — so the sentence described the key as issuing instructions rather than transcribing speech. Now 음성을 받아씁니다, matching 받아쓰기 used by `mode_label` and the rest of the capture namespace. Caught by CodeRabbit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ko.json carried 493 of en.json's 3012 keys as gaps, so those strings rendered
in English for Korean users. They are now translated and the ratchet drops:
_MISSING_BASELINE["ko"]: 493 → 0
Where they were: settings (225), models (71), engines (37), dictation (22),
contact (17), support (13), setup (12), crash (12), footer_donate (11), and
14 smaller namespaces.
Translations follow the glossary this locale now uses — 전사본 / 전사,
받아쓰기, 화자, 시네마틱, 내보내기, 시드, 스템, 다듬기, 라이선스, and
생성 (never 세대) — so the new strings match the ones already in the file.
Three judgement calls worth flagging:
* `settings.reset_confirm_word` stays "DELETE". ResetPanel.jsx compares
`typed.trim().toUpperCase() === CONFIRM_WORD`, which assumes an
uppercase-Latin sentinel; a Korean word survives toUpperCase() by accident
rather than by design, and this guard wipes voices, projects and generated
audio. Not the place to be clever.
* `dictation.flag_self_correction_hint` and `flag_smart_cleanup_hint` are
example utterances demonstrating disfluency removal ("at seven no actually
six am" → "at six am"). Carried over verbatim they would demonstrate
nothing to a Korean speaker, so they are Korean utterances showing the same
two phenomena.
* `settings.hf_source_cli_label` stays "HuggingFace CLI" — a tool name.
Placeholders and numbered tags were diffed against en.json for all 493 keys:
no `{{placeholder}}` added, dropped, renamed, or reordered, and no `<1>…</1>`
lost. Existing key order is preserved, so the diff is the new keys plus this
branch's earlier corrections.
`tests/test_locale_parity.py` passes (248) with the ratchet at 0.
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adding a concise one-line Highlights bullet for issue `#1776` under
**Highlights**, ending with (`#1776`) and including the community credit; keep the
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Summary
Two things were wrong with
ko.json, and this PR fixes both.1. 231 keys were mistranslated. The file was filled by the bulk
GoogleTranslatorpass in
scripts/translate_all.py. Single-word UI labels carry no context, so thetranslator repeatedly picked the wrong sense of the word — not awkward phrasing, but
vocabulary from unrelated domains:
sidebar.tab_exportsnav.transcriptscredentials.group_huggingfacegallery.trimclone.seed_labelstories.stemsbootstrap.region_chinaabout.architectureheader.kicker_librarybatch.status_runningdub.ingestsettings.review_mode_offclone.preset_sichuanThe worst class is meaning that inverts:
segment.fit_overflows_titlewarns "The audio was hard-trimmed"; ko read오디오가 잘 다듬어졌습니다 — "nicely trimmed". A data-loss warning delivered as praise.
settings.translation_providers_descsaid the keys last 이 세션에 대해 ("this session"),where en says "Saved and restored across restarts".
dub_workflow.dialect_not_appliedtold users to pick Cinematic quality; en tells themto configure an LLM endpoint. The ko advice does not fix the problem.
voicePanel.mode_subexplains push-to-talk as 지시합니다 — to give an order — ratherthan dictating.
Breakdown:
2. 493 keys were missing, so those strings fell back to English. They are now
translated and
_MISSING_BASELINE["ko"]drops 493 → 0 — ko is the first locale atfull parity. They sat in settings (225), models (71), engines (37), dictation (22),
contact (17), support (13), setup (12), crash (12), footer_donate (11), and 14 smaller
namespaces.
Terminology
Reviewing keys in isolation let the same English term land differently in different
places — Greptile caught one case where a recovery toast named a button by a label no
button had. Auditing the file for that pattern turned up four more splits:
capture.transcription_faileddeliberately keeps 받아쓰기 — that namespace is thedictation widget, not dubbing ASR.
Judgement calls, so you can overrule them
settings.reset_confirm_wordstaysDELETE.ResetPanel.jsxcomparestyped.trim().toUpperCase() === CONFIRM_WORD, which assumes an uppercase-Latinsentinel, and this guard wipes voices, projects and generated audio. A Korean word
survives
toUpperCase()by accident, not by design.dictation.flag_*_hintgot Korean example utterances. They demonstrate disfluencyremoval ("at seven no actually six am" → "at six am"); carried over verbatim they
demonstrate nothing to a Korean speaker.
credentials.descvssettings.translation_providers_desc— flagged in review ascontradictory, but en.json says both: general keys are session-only, the
DeepL/Microsoft ones are "Saved and restored across restarts". ko mirrors en. If the
English pair is itself wrong, that is an en.json fix to propagate to all 21 locales.
preset_surprised_woman/preset_elderly_story— flagged as dropping qualifiers,but en is exactly
😲 Surprisedand👴 Elder. The qualifiers are in the key names.Type
Testing
pytest tests/test_locale_parity.py→ 248 passed, with the ratchet at 0.en.json; every proposed change was re-checked againstthe file so no key, source string, or
{{placeholder}}drifted. For the 493 new keys,placeholders and
<1>…</1>tags were diffed against en for all of them — none added,dropped, renamed, or reordered.
json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)isbyte-identical to the original file, so the diff is only real changes.
Checklist
Happy to split this — the corrections and the 493 additions are separate commits, and the
meaning invertedgroup is the part that actually misleads users if you want that alonefirst. I kept them together because two open PRs editing the same JSON would conflict on
whichever merges second.
The other 19 locales miss the same 493 keys, and several carry the same
Cleaning…mistranslation (
zh-CN清理中…,deReinigung…,frNettoyage…,esLimpieza…). ja's isfixed in #1775; I left the ones I cannot judge to native speakers.
Updates the Korean locale with 493 missing translations and 231 translation corrections for terminology, meaning, tone, and untranslated English. The parity baseline changes from 493 missing keys to 0, with locale parity tests passing. Human review should verify Korean meaning and tone in user-facing messages.