Live-Translate

2026-09-20

Live-Translate is a real-time translation tool that allows users to translate text and speech using direct or LLM translation methods using LibreTranslate. It supports multiple languages and can be deployed using Docker for easy setup for multi user available use and pure offline only operation.

Portainer Stack

Ref: https://github.com/Jonesckevin/live-translate

Bash Docker Run

bash
18 lines

# Live-Translate
# https://github.com/Jonesckevin/live-translate

docker run --name live-translate --restart unless-stopped -p 9015:5000 -v ./data:/data \
 -e ALLOW_AUTH=true \
 -e REQUIRE_AUTH=true \
 -e SOCKETIO_CORS_CREDENTIALS=true \
 -e ALLOW_USER_REGISTRATION=true \
 -e ALLOW_GUEST_LOGIN=true \
 -e WHISPER_ENABLED=true \
 -e WHISPER_MODEL=tiny \
 -e ENABLE_SERVER_ANALYTICS=false \
 -e SECRET_KEY='$(openssl rand -hex 32)' \
 -e SECRETS='$(openssl rand -hex 32)' \
 -e REQUIRE_SECRETS=true \
 -e LOGS_ACCESS_TOKEN= \
 -e ALLOW_CLIENT_API_KEYS=true \
 jonesckevin/live-translate:latest

Docker Compose

yaml
23 lines

services:
 live-translate:
 image: jonesckevin/live-translate:latest
 container_name: live-translate
 ports:
 - "9015:5000"
 volumes:
 - "./data:/data"
 environment:
 ALLOW_AUTH: "true"
 REQUIRE_AUTH: "true"
 SOCKETIO_CORS_CREDENTIALS: "true"
 ALLOW_USER_REGISTRATION: "true"
 ALLOW_GUEST_LOGIN: "true"
 WHISPER_ENABLED: "true"
 WHISPER_MODEL: "tiny"
 ENABLE_SERVER_ANALYTICS: "false"
 SECRET_KEY: "$(openssl rand -hex 32)"
 SECRETS: "$(openssl rand -hex 32)"
 REQUIRE_SECRETS: "true"
 LOGS_ACCESS_TOKEN: ""
 ALLOW_CLIENT_API_KEYS: "true"
 restart: unless-stopped

For a simplistic view

bash
12 lines

git clone https://github.com/jonesckevin/live-translate.git
cd live-translate
docker build -t live-translate:latest .

# Then run with your local image
docker run -d \
 --name live-translate \
 -p 9015:5000 \
 -v $(pwd)/data:/data \
 -e REQUIRE_AUTH=false \
 -e OFFLINE_MODE=auto \
 live-translate:latest

Speech Translation on 4n6Post

Live-Translate

Portainer Stack

Bash Docker Run

Docker Compose

For a simplistic view