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2 Apr, 15:25
TOONCAST automatically translates Korean webtoons into English with AI-powered voice narration — turning any Naver Webtoon episode into a fully readable, listenable experience in minutes. Paste a webtoon URL and TOONCAST handles the rest: it scrapes every panel, sends them through GPT-4 Vision for OCR and translation, inpaints over the Korean text, renders clean English typography back onto each panel, stitches them into scrollable strips, and generates spoken narration of the dialogue. ElevenLabs powers the narration layer. After translation, TOONCAST extracts dialogue from the OCR results, filters out sound effects, sorts text in natural reading order (top-to-bottom, left-to-right), and generates per-panel audio using ElevenLabs TTS (Flash v2.5). Individual panel audio is concatenated into a full episode MP3, so readers can listen along as they scroll — or just listen hands-free. The frontend is a retro CRT-styled SPA with real-time SSE progress tracking, a side-by-side compare view, full-scroll reading mode, and integrated audio playback per panel or per episode.