Anime × Tamil · Now dubbing
Gemma 4 presents · an open-source production · lettering in Tamil, Tanglish and Madras Bashai · starring Pepper & Carrot by David Revoy
மங்கா, இப்போ
தமிழ்ல!
Inkdub reads every speech bubble on a comic page and letters it back in natural Tamil, casual Tanglish or full Madras Bashai, right where the English was.
Gemma 4 · open weights · Apache 2.0 · open source
↑ Tap a stamp to re-letter this page. Every line here came straight from Gemma 4.
Same panel.
Four voices.
How a page gets dubbed
One call to gemma-4-26b-a4b-it finds every bubble, who is talking and how loud.
- Speaker
- Man in hat · shout
- EN
- Run, idiot!
- Tamil
- ஓடு, முட்டாளே!
- Tanglish
- Odu, muttaalae!
- Madras
- ஓடுடா லூசு பயலே!
Not word for word: honorifics, jokes and attitude are rewritten for Tamil readers.
The browser traces each bubble, repaints it with the bubble's own paper, and fits the Tamil inside.
Afterword
Pepper&Carrot has been translated into 69 languages, every one of them by volunteers. Its Tamil edition is 21% done.
Inkdub drafts every bubble, so a Tamil reader only has to review instead of starting from a blank page.
It runs on Gemma 4, an open-weight model under Apache 2.0, so any fan translator can run it on their own machine for free. Inkdub is open source too. Bring your language, your slang, your favourite series.
— the Inkdub crew, Chennai
