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id: two-stage-user-styled-translation/09-real-gaps-as-far-as-this-search
title: 'Two-stage styled translation exists only in pieces: 9. Real gaps, as far as
  this search reached'
report: https://ai.hiina.space/reports/two-stage-user-styled-translation.md
section: 9
version: 1
updated: '2026-10-27'
author: Hiina
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# Two-stage styled translation exists only in pieces: 9. Real gaps, as far as this search reached

- Section 9 of 12 of the report "Two-stage styled translation exists only in pieces" by Hiina (v1, updated 2026-10-27)
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## 9. Real gaps, as far as this search reached

The empty cells are specific. This search found no tool or paper that stores a language-neutral per-line record and renders it under user style settings. It found no tool documenting an honorifics toggle; the only honorific option found is a human-authored fan patch whose storage format is undocumented. It found no research on Japanese-to-English honorific or register rendering control, as opposed to English-to-Japanese formality generation, and no evaluation of honorific retention. It found no study of a small renderer consuming an LLM-written description, no measurement of how many teacher triples a style-conditioned renderer needs, and no measurement of whether a fine-tuned renderer ignores its conditioning. Puns remain mostly unsolved even for frontier ensembles. Reference-free evaluation of heavily styled output, such as pirate speech, has no benchmark; the check has to be built from the record itself. Search coverage of Chinese-language VN communities and chat-server-only projects was limited, so a private tool doing some of this could exist.

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