{"id":45057,"date":"2026-02-10T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steamdeckhq.com\/?p=45057"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:29:18","slug":"decky-loader-plugin-translate-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steamdeckhq.com\/news\/decky-loader-plugin-translate-on-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Decky Loader Plugin Can Translate Whatever Is On Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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While the Steam Deck can already do so much on its own, it amazes me how the community will push it further. A lot of this is done within the Decky Plugin Framework, which injects community-made plugins into Game Mode. These can do a variety of things, like inject lossless scaling frame generation or allow you to easily change the artwork of all of your Steam games. Now, a new plugin is on the horizon, and it's going to make playing foreign games easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That's where the Decky Translator<\/a> plugin comes in. This new plugin, made by cat-in-a-box, will translate whatever is showing on the screen at any given time with the press of a button. It can use one of three different text recognition software (RapidOCR, OCR.Space, and Google Cloud Vision), and use either Google Translate or Google Cloud Translation to translate whatever is showing on the screen. We also have multiple options for output language:<\/p>\n\n\n\n