wtf is deepseek-translation-studio?

DeepSeek Translation Studio is a Windows desktop application, built with PySide6, for translating text and subtitles using DeepSeek, either through its web interface or its API. It gives you a workspace with a source text editor, editable prompt templates, a preview of the final assembled prompt, a results view, saved history, logs, and a dark mode. It can talk to DeepSeek either through the regular web page in a browser window or through an OpenAI-compatible API, and it can test API credentials without actually starting a chat. The same repository also builds a second, smaller application called DeepSeek Conversation Capture. This stripped down edition is fixed to web mode and general conversation use, keeping features like sending prompts, capturing whatever answer is visible on the page, stopping and cleaning up, continuing automatically after an answer gets cut off, switching between accounts, and exporting to text or Markdown. It drops the API settings, subtitle handling, and other extras found in the full studio, and stores its data in a separate folder so it never mixes with the main app. A major focus of the full studio is translating SRT subtitle files. It tracks translation coverage by matching each subtitle's identity and timecode, discards incomplete captured fragments, and shows a running count of how many subtitles are covered out of the total. If DeepSeek's response gets cut off partway through, the tool automatically clicks the visible continue button and resumes, and it can detect and refill gaps in coverage rather than assuming a partial result is finished. Web mode works only with text that is already visible on the page, never through hidden network responses or the clipboard, and the README states plainly that automatic login, CAPTCHA bypass, and getting around access controls are explicitly not something this project does. Setup requires Windows, Python 3.12 or newer, and installing dependencies including PySide6 and Playwright, with Playwright downloading a Chromium browser for web mode. For web use, you sign into DeepSeek manually the first time. For API use, you configure an API key, base URL, and model, either through the interface or environment variables. The README notes that API keys are never written into the app's history or log files.