Demo only, most of these windows can be left minimized.

It's been a while (more than a year, in fact) since the original Machine Assisted Visual Novel Reading. (If you're unfamiliar, it's recommended reading!) My programming skills have not advanced at all since then, sadly. However, for a while now, I've been using a cleaned up version of the previous script for my own purposes. Since I made a few simple but effective improvements, I figure it wouldn't hurt to spread it around, so here goes:

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tl;dr - Script is better now, DL link at bottom of page.

Essentially, you can push one button to translate with AI voice (in the case of unvoiced lines), and another to call just a regular translation without the AI voice (somehow your childhood friend lacks the same impact when she is accompanied by the echoing voice of a stilted computer )

If you managed to get a copy of Neospeech Show or some other Japanese TTS voice, the Voice_Translate function works in conjunction with the VW TTS-Test-Application that is included with such software. Make sure it's running, of course.

The old clicking on active window thing was functional but rather inefficient. Now, any hotkey you desire should work. Watch out for conflicts though.

Notes and Errata:

1. Use Joy2Key in conjunction with the hotkeys, and you can play any game from a comfortable distance using a gamepad or joystick. Bind other keys to advance the text, toggle the window, move the mouse etc. I find it less RSI inducing than clicking with my index finger repeatedly - but at any rate, don't forget to take frequent breaks


2. PushPin is a neat little app that you can use to make windows stay always on top. Good if other applications steal focus constantly, or are otherwise distracting.


3. Quite a number of people were wondering about agth.html. To create it, launch Notepad.exe, go to File>Save As... Choose the appropriate directory, Change "Save as type:" to "All Files", Set "File name:" to "agth.html" (without quotes), "Encoding:" to UTF-8. Push the Save button. Voila!


4. Vista compatability is unknown (I use XP exclusively), but if AutoIt works in that environment, then I don't see why these scripts wouldn't work either.


5. If you don't like Wakan, or would like to use Rikai-chan exclusively, comment out the lines in the script as indicated to take out the calls to Wakan.

The Actual Script

This revision of the script was created for use with Twinkle☆Crusaders, do check it out^^ Rename the script file as you like. Modify as necessary.

Note: Read the code comments!

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