Chat-translate

Real-time chat web app that enables seamless conversations between people who speak different languages. Chat-Translate automatically translates messages as they are sent, allowing for fluid multilingual communication.

Live demo hosted at https://chat-translate.rekkice.dev

Key Features

• Real-time translation of chat messages through an external API
• Easily join a chatroom just by scanning the QR code shown next to the chat, or by typing the human-friendly URL
• Easily create a chatroom, choosing 2 available languages that will be used to generate the translations
• Dynamically generated OpenGraph images, shown when sharing the URL in social media

Technologies Used

• Elixir & Phoenix (for backend)
• Svelte (for frontend UI functionality)
• WebSockets (for real-time communication)
• GROQ API (for fast LLM generation)
• Tailwind CSS (for frontend styling)

Usage

To start the app:

• Run devenv shell to enter a shell with the necessary system dependencies
• Run devenv up -d to start a Postgres instance in the background
• Run mix setup to install and setup Elixir dependencies
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Future Features

• Support for more languages