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About Google Translate
• Text translation: Translate between 103 languages by typing
• Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and tap the Google Translate icon to translate (all languages)
• Offline: Translate with no internet connection (59 languages)
• Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera (88 languages)
• Photos: Take or import photos for higher quality translations (50 languages)
• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (43 languages)
• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (95 languages)
• Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference (all languages)
• Cross-device syncing: Login to sync phrasebook between app and desktop
Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
Permissions Notice
Google Translate may ask for permission to access the following features:
• Microphone for speech translation
• Camera for translating text via the camera
• SMS for translating text messages
• External storage for downloading offline translation data
• Accounts and credentials for signing-in and syncing across devices
• Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and tap the Google Translate icon to translate (all languages)
• Offline: Translate with no internet connection (59 languages)
• Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera (88 languages)
• Photos: Take or import photos for higher quality translations (50 languages)
• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (43 languages)
• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (95 languages)
• Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference (all languages)
• Cross-device syncing: Login to sync phrasebook between app and desktop
Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
Permissions Notice
Google Translate may ask for permission to access the following features:
• Microphone for speech translation
• Camera for translating text via the camera
• SMS for translating text messages
• External storage for downloading offline translation data
• Accounts and credentials for signing-in and syncing across devices
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Jan 10, 2021 Incredibly useful app. It would be great if there would be a way to have the app *never ask me ever again* to "set up Google Translate" whenever I open the app. There's no single set of languages that I translate between most often; it may be entirely random depending on what I'm doing. I explicitly do *not* want to set any default, but it seems like the app is nagging me to do so. Other than that, I love it.more -
Accessibility for Instructional Design
Oct 24, 2018 Google Translate is now a form of augmented reality and is adapted for educational purposes. This application provides users with tools to translate between languages and they now include an image option; users take a photograph of a sign, piece of paper, or other form of written text and receive a translation in the language of their choice. This augmented reality is ground breaking because this allows online learners to access content in other languages. The application also translates spoken word in real time, which allows all learners to access audio in written form, in their own language, online or in-person. This version of augmented reality that is adapted for education can be utilized in an online learning environment and can be utilized by instructional designers. One of the major challenges with instructional design is selecting the correct tools to build learning experiences. With this application, instructional designers are able to create a course in their own language and can make their lesson accessible to learners by recommending Google Translate for accessibility. I plan to utilize this in conjunction with my online lessons and videos in order to reach more students with diverse abilities and primary languages.more -
Jan 19, 2021 Very seamless tap to translate function, for which I installed it. I wish I could set up the tap to translate function to actually show the definition of the word in a particular language (English or French depending on the text) instead of the translation as it is more useful to me.more -
Pages of Translation Lightening Fast, and Reliable!
Oct 31, 2019 If if you are using anything but Google translate to do your Spanish work for you, you are missing the boat. It translates whole pages of text instantly without error. It uses understandable language for our US - Mexico border area. I was using a different translator when I saw a doctor using Google to communicate with a Spanish only patient. That’s when I learned about Google Translate and switched. For the past two years, I have used a different Spanish translator/dictionary App. It was slow and tedious, only would translate a short paragraph at a time, but worse - it inserted words which were clearly wrong. One time instead of asking my gardener to complete a task, it inserted the word marriage into the sentence! His wife would have not been happy! Luckily I caught it before texting as I had to double- check every phrase. But now I no longer have to worry and each phrase is spot on. ( at least so far I think it’s been!).more -
Need to continually update and add new features
Sep 16, 2019 This app is so much better than Microsoft translator. I used it first set a lot of messages on social media to new friends only to find out those messages were a jumbled mess of random words. They assume you lack the skills and ability process thoughts into Russian even with translator. It’s hard to come back from. I love that you can translate live with the camera because a lot of times I’m watching a broadcast or something and trying to keep up with everyone. The thing however that frustrates me the most about all apps including this one is that they tend to stop listening before the conversation has ended. Whether I just push the button and let go or cold it during the entire time after certain. It’s stops listening and you have to stop the sound if you’re lucky enough to be able to rewind it. I would like it to be easier to use within an app and not have to copy and paste etc. but overall I really like it it’s the one I use most and I’ve got some I paid for that just don’t stack up.more
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Jan 9, 2021 Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.more -
Jan 15, 2021 Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.more -
Hard to Use, Inaccurate, Barely Works
Dec 28, 2018 Many times when I record audio or pictures, the translation doesn’t even come up. The audio is worse since no matter what I do, speaking into the microphone is just a bust. I’ll say something into the microphone, and it won’t do anything. It doesn’t even load, it just indefinitely waits for me to say more. No matter how much I say, real words or not, it doesn’t ever even acknowledge that I’m done talking and if I hit any buttons, the X to close it or microphone button that you’d think would tell what it said, just cancel out of it. Not to mention, taking pics is a nightmare. You have to highlight with your finger the phrases you want translated, but you can’t move the picture around easily. So if you zoom into a certain part, it’s hard to zoom back out, and you can’t move the picture at all without zooming in or out. So if you zoom out in a way that makes the pic go off to the side, well, too bad. Why can’t it just detect the words itself? Or at the very least, why can’t I translate more then one thing in a picture, and do I have to take the same picture again and again just to see everything it says?more -
Jan 16, 2021 the voice translation is so inaccurate!!! Some serious issues there!!!! Almost everytime I say a sentence it doesn't recognize a word said. E.g.: There were 2 minutes left and Google translate understands this: there award 2 minutes, and most of the time doesn't understand the last word said and leaves it blank... It even comes out with wrong translations: mandioca is manioc, and aipim is cassava (not wahoo)... I hope Google translate doesn't embarrass me again with wrong translations...more -
Terrible design - using the browser version is better
Jul 6, 2018 I installed this because I frequently use the browser version in Google to translate between English and French and I thought the app would be more convenient. Took me less than a minute to see the flaws in it. It's a horribly designed app - for example, in the browser version you can "switch" the languages around to make the destination language the source language. This is really helpful if, for example, you wish to practice making sentences in a language and then switch them around to compare your sentence to how Google translates it. In the app, there is a switch button but it switches the TEXT between windows instead of just switching which is source and which is destination - so my French sentence goes into the English window and vice versa, meaning they don't get translated. This is either a really stupid bug or an inexcusable design flaw, and to be honest it's entirely what I've come to expect from Google software. There are ALWAYS really stupid bugs and oversights which people complain about for years but which they never fix. Oh well, uninstalling it now.more
- Efficient and effective translations between 103 languages, you can tap to translate, and translate anywhere in 59 languages even when offline
- 2 great ways to learn: conversation mode (2-way instant translation in 32 languages) and handwriting (draw characters, no keyboard necessary)
- Take a picture for easy translation with instant camera translation in 38 languages and camera mode in 37 languages
Reviewed by Laura S on January 26, 2018
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Jan 10, 2021 Incredibly useful app. It would be great if there would be a way to have the app *never ask me ever again* to "set up Google Translate" whenever I open the app. There's no single set of languages that I translate between most often; it may be entirely random depending on what I'm doing. I explicitly do *not* want to set any default, but it seems like the app is nagging me to do so. Other than that, I love it.more -
Accessibility for Instructional Design
Oct 24, 2018 Google Translate is now a form of augmented reality and is adapted for educational purposes. This application provides users with tools to translate between languages and they now include an image option; users take a photograph of a sign, piece of paper, or other form of written text and receive a translation in the language of their choice. This augmented reality is ground breaking because this allows online learners to access content in other languages. The application also translates spoken word in real time, which allows all learners to access audio in written form, in their own language, online or in-person. This version of augmented reality that is adapted for education can be utilized in an online learning environment and can be utilized by instructional designers. One of the major challenges with instructional design is selecting the correct tools to build learning experiences. With this application, instructional designers are able to create a course in their own language and can make their lesson accessible to learners by recommending Google Translate for accessibility. I plan to utilize this in conjunction with my online lessons and videos in order to reach more students with diverse abilities and primary languages.more -
Jan 19, 2021 Very seamless tap to translate function, for which I installed it. I wish I could set up the tap to translate function to actually show the definition of the word in a particular language (English or French depending on the text) instead of the translation as it is more useful to me.more -
Pages of Translation Lightening Fast, and Reliable!
Oct 31, 2019 If if you are using anything but Google translate to do your Spanish work for you, you are missing the boat. It translates whole pages of text instantly without error. It uses understandable language for our US - Mexico border area. I was using a different translator when I saw a doctor using Google to communicate with a Spanish only patient. That’s when I learned about Google Translate and switched. For the past two years, I have used a different Spanish translator/dictionary App. It was slow and tedious, only would translate a short paragraph at a time, but worse - it inserted words which were clearly wrong. One time instead of asking my gardener to complete a task, it inserted the word marriage into the sentence! His wife would have not been happy! Luckily I caught it before texting as I had to double- check every phrase. But now I no longer have to worry and each phrase is spot on. ( at least so far I think it’s been!).more -
Indispensable app
Aug 20, 2018 I use many different languages throughout each day, usually just little phrases here and there in my writing. This app is indispensable to me as I work, and the translations seem to just get better and better with each update. I’ve read a few of the negative reviews, and while I’m sure the inconveniences described by these folks are real, it also seems they me be expecting a bit too much. The app is very straightforward in its basic function of translating text that is input by the user. The app is also by Google, and thus it is highly aspirational in its features, and each update seems to bring further enhancements that may or may not be truly useful. I understand how this might get frustrating, but that’s just Google’s style. Eventually the kinks get worked out based on user feedback, which is how I think it should be. As far as a basic free translation app, this one is far and away the best.more
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Need to continually update and add new features
Sep 16, 2019 This app is so much better than Microsoft translator. I used it first set a lot of messages on social media to new friends only to find out those messages were a jumbled mess of random words. They assume you lack the skills and ability process thoughts into Russian even with translator. It’s hard to come back from. I love that you can translate live with the camera because a lot of times I’m watching a broadcast or something and trying to keep up with everyone. The thing however that frustrates me the most about all apps including this one is that they tend to stop listening before the conversation has ended. Whether I just push the button and let go or cold it during the entire time after certain. It’s stops listening and you have to stop the sound if you’re lucky enough to be able to rewind it. I would like it to be easier to use within an app and not have to copy and paste etc. but overall I really like it it’s the one I use most and I’ve got some I paid for that just don’t stack up.more -
Jan 19, 2021 The only reason I give it 4 stars is that when I translate something through camera(scan) it's sometimes capture the wanted word which I even can't crop because there is no option like crop the image.....so it would be better if there is something like crop or cut.......but everything else is super finemore -
Jan 9, 2021 Sometimes the translation isn't all that accurate but it's still a good app. I know it's quite hard to get people that speak all those languages so it must be hard. The camera isn't so good tho. Its hard to keep the camera still and that makes it hard to scan and optimize. Bit i like this app. :)more -
Jan 15, 2021 Writing space is very limited. By adding at least four or five lines, the writer can write in a manner consistent with the subject matter of the previous writing to maintain the continuity of his writing. Also accurate translation in Bengali and Hindi. Although I had already made a request in this regard in the mail. I hope you will pay attention to this.more -
Good app, but bugs or improvements needed
Feb 28, 2018 I really like this app, but there are many bugs and difficulty when using it. For example, when using the speech function it constantly stops working, saying there is a connection error where there isn't any. Or if my phone tilts a little bit on its side, the audio will stop and I have to start it all over again. This brings me to my next point: editing text. When you try to edit the text youre translating, its difficult to click it to be able to edit it or even find the spot you want to edit since the space is so small and cluttered. A function that will be really helpful is a pause/play button when youre having the text be read allowed and when the text is being read allowed, it doesnt stop if the device tilts to one side.more
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Google Translate needs a massive overhaul!
Sep 29, 2020 FEATURE REQUEST: Since most people are translating from a foreign language to their native language, it would be lovely if you could make your chosen language “stick” at the top of the list. I would prefer to have the languages I use most frequently stick to the top of the list. For me, they are: English, French, German, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. That would solve the annoyance of having to reselect one or more my core languages every time I deviate from my norm. I would like to include Croatian in my core list, but the machine voice for Croatian is unintelligible, even to native speakers because the sound quality is so poor and it speaks far too fast. HEBREW & YIDDISH: It is not possible to learn to speak or translate from either of these languages. Google has NO VOICE, machine or natural, for EITHER of them, nor does it scribe the translation using our common alphabet, Latin. At least then, I could make an attempt at the pronunciation of the words. I would cheerfully give Google Translate 5 stars as soon as these deficits are dealt with.more -
Jan 11, 2021 Works great and incredibly useful to translate multiple languages. Offline option is great, allowing you to download a ''dictionary'' and translate when you don't have internet. Downside, anything you translate is entered into Google's logs and linked to you. To maintain privacy, use the Offline option and block Google Translate from internet access with something like NoRoot Firewall Functionality (5 stars) + Privacy (0 stars) = 3 stars totalmore -
Jan 8, 2021 Still inserts the word "oh" whenever I say comma. Otherwise a much better way to utilize speech to text than Samsung's slow translator. Both products need correct capitalization protocols. Names of persons, places or special events should be capitalized; not every 1st letter of a song name and so forth. Just ask Weird Al with a doctorate in language.more -
Good but not what is needed
Aug 31, 2019 This program is useless when trying to overhear peoples conversations or listen to a speech. You can’t tell people to slow down and pause so you can translate each thing they said. That just does not work and is not practical. If I’m watching a show on TV in Chinese it is also fairly useless unless you want to press pause every few seconds. Also when people are talking, you have to tell them to speak slowly and carefully. That is ridiculous. And you have to wait until they have completed a sentence to translate. That is silly. What is needed is for the App to translate as a person is speaking. The user would just wear earphones an be able to listen nearly real time just like a real translator does. Or the translated words would appear as the person is speaking. The function that translates what is written kind of works. It fluctuate the transition consistently until you freeze the frame. Obviously this function needs improving.more -
Jan 15, 2021 I used to love this app. Now in the past week or so it crashes a lot, every few minutes. This is irritating when in the middle of a sentence. Web version is still great. Will be looking for other options for mobile, though.
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Jan 9, 2021 Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.more -
Jan 15, 2021 Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.more -
Jan 15, 2021 Until, The DeepL Translator was recommended by a colleague, Google translate was the only one I was using. I have to mention, the translation from German to English or vice a versa is not comparable to DeepL. The feature that helps alot is the camera scan option.more -
Jan 13, 2021 Also...extend the recorder time out time on dite and app. Some languages are difficult to pronounce. App translations are sloppy compared to the web based translator.🤔 Also when reversing translations...the top section stays the same...this didn't happen before. I'm Translating Russian btw. Screen translation would be nice & night mode would be great to!!! 👌🌚 eat = есть ... but есть = there is??? wth🤔 The web based translator seems way better... couldn't you just match them up?more -
Jan 11, 2021 Never translate site in English has not worked effectively at all. I do not want a translation for sites already in English. Google translate does not seem to understand. At first, I thought it was a problem with my browser and cleared history completely and data. I cleared data for translate app too. Even then it asks for translation.more
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Hard to Use, Inaccurate, Barely Works
Dec 28, 2018 Many times when I record audio or pictures, the translation doesn’t even come up. The audio is worse since no matter what I do, speaking into the microphone is just a bust. I’ll say something into the microphone, and it won’t do anything. It doesn’t even load, it just indefinitely waits for me to say more. No matter how much I say, real words or not, it doesn’t ever even acknowledge that I’m done talking and if I hit any buttons, the X to close it or microphone button that you’d think would tell what it said, just cancel out of it. Not to mention, taking pics is a nightmare. You have to highlight with your finger the phrases you want translated, but you can’t move the picture around easily. So if you zoom into a certain part, it’s hard to zoom back out, and you can’t move the picture at all without zooming in or out. So if you zoom out in a way that makes the pic go off to the side, well, too bad. Why can’t it just detect the words itself? Or at the very least, why can’t I translate more then one thing in a picture, and do I have to take the same picture again and again just to see everything it says?more -
Jan 16, 2021 the voice translation is so inaccurate!!! Some serious issues there!!!! Almost everytime I say a sentence it doesn't recognize a word said. E.g.: There were 2 minutes left and Google translate understands this: there award 2 minutes, and most of the time doesn't understand the last word said and leaves it blank... It even comes out with wrong translations: mandioca is manioc, and aipim is cassava (not wahoo)... I hope Google translate doesn't embarrass me again with wrong translations...more -
Terrible design - using the browser version is better
Jul 6, 2018 I installed this because I frequently use the browser version in Google to translate between English and French and I thought the app would be more convenient. Took me less than a minute to see the flaws in it. It's a horribly designed app - for example, in the browser version you can "switch" the languages around to make the destination language the source language. This is really helpful if, for example, you wish to practice making sentences in a language and then switch them around to compare your sentence to how Google translates it. In the app, there is a switch button but it switches the TEXT between windows instead of just switching which is source and which is destination - so my French sentence goes into the English window and vice versa, meaning they don't get translated. This is either a really stupid bug or an inexcusable design flaw, and to be honest it's entirely what I've come to expect from Google software. There are ALWAYS really stupid bugs and oversights which people complain about for years but which they never fix. Oh well, uninstalling it now.more -
Jan 14, 2021 This app use to be good. Now it's horrible. I have to keep uninstalling and re installing because the translator always stop working. And the "tap to translate". Not good. Everyone I talk to is searching for a better translator. Please, go back to the way things were. Also, I can't get the icon on my phone.more -
Flawed text scanning and translations
Jan 31, 2020 This is an amazing translation app, especially the real-time camera mode, straight out of science-fiction! However, it gives different results between camera Instant mode and Scan mode (often the Instant translation is close but a little off, Scan is more accurate but slower). A big problem with Scan mode is random omission of Japanese symbols from the source text and/or incorrect scans (wrong characters), so you’re unable to get a complete translation (frustrating). There are also frequent Google network errors resulting in delayed translation (or none at all), and frequent app crashes. You cannot pinch-zoom the camera, which is a problem on a smaller screen or text sizes. You can share/save only the translation results and not the scanned original foreign language text. I also don’t like how the camera mode always defaults to Instant instead of the last setting used. So although this is a convenient app for translations, it still needs a bit of work to get a higher rating from me.more
What’s Groovy
Plz add more languages all the time new languages even the languages rarely spoken in case someone wants to learn that language possibly and also add a updated brand new redesign of google translate so it will be better and cooler looking and the option to translate the letters translation language into pink text for girls or blue text for boys Keep up the excellent work please also add Bosnian Cyrillic pretty please and also add Armenian Cyrillic lots of Armenians use Cyrillic in Armenian language when typing and also if possible please add the option to type in Cyrillic for Finlandian Cyrillic language because Russia took over control of a part of Finland and Now Like 11 percent of Finland belongs to Russia so it makes sense to have Finlandian Cyrillic and please pretty please add the option to type in Blue color for boys on google translate and pink color for girls on google translate and not the pink color that is not attractive on google translate but the one that is pleasant and looks nice on the app when typing and same thing for blue color oh and one more thing please add the languages Irish for voice translation and transcribe fearure and Scots Gaelic for voice translation and transcribe feature and also please pick the 100 next coolest languages to learn that are different and add them to google translate
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What’s Subpar
Inaccurate and consist mistranslation. Your app would be great, however it's not. It's basically an outdated incorrect translator throughout all languages. As a Polyglot I am very disappointed and ticked that people actually think this app helps which it doesn't. Google translate doesn't understand formality and has wordy plus unnecessary parts for translation. Some words are translated incorrectly and simply outdated, old to use now days. If you believe the 5 star reviews you're a fool.
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Incredibly useful app. It would be great if there would be a way to have the app *never ask me ever again* to "set up Google Translate" whenever I open the app. There's no single set of languages that I translate between most often; it may be entirely random depending on what I'm doing. I explicitly do *not* want to set any default, but it seems like the app is nagging me to do so. Other than that, I love it.
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Accessibility for Instructional Design
Google Translate is now a form of augmented reality and is adapted for educational purposes. This application provides users with tools to translate between languages and they now include an image option; users take a photograph of a sign, piece of paper, or other form of written text and receive a translation in the language of their choice. This augmented reality is ground breaking because this allows online learners to access content in other languages. The application also translates spoken word in real time, which allows all learners to access audio in written form, in their own language, online or in-person. This version of augmented reality that is adapted for education can be utilized in an online learning environment and can be utilized by instructional designers. One of the major challenges with instructional design is selecting the correct tools to build learning experiences. With this application, instructional designers are able to create a course in their own language and can make their lesson accessible to learners by recommending Google Translate for accessibility. I plan to utilize this in conjunction with my online lessons and videos in order to reach more students with diverse abilities and primary languages. -
Very seamless tap to translate function, for which I installed it. I wish I could set up the tap to translate function to actually show the definition of the word in a particular language (English or French depending on the text) instead of the translation as it is more useful to me.
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Pages of Translation Lightening Fast, and Reliable!
If if you are using anything but Google translate to do your Spanish work for you, you are missing the boat. It translates whole pages of text instantly without error. It uses understandable language for our US - Mexico border area. I was using a different translator when I saw a doctor using Google to communicate with a Spanish only patient. That’s when I learned about Google Translate and switched. For the past two years, I have used a different Spanish translator/dictionary App. It was slow and tedious, only would translate a short paragraph at a time, but worse - it inserted words which were clearly wrong. One time instead of asking my gardener to complete a task, it inserted the word marriage into the sentence! His wife would have not been happy! Luckily I caught it before texting as I had to double- check every phrase. But now I no longer have to worry and each phrase is spot on. ( at least so far I think it’s been!). -
Need to continually update and add new features
This app is so much better than Microsoft translator. I used it first set a lot of messages on social media to new friends only to find out those messages were a jumbled mess of random words. They assume you lack the skills and ability process thoughts into Russian even with translator. It’s hard to come back from. I love that you can translate live with the camera because a lot of times I’m watching a broadcast or something and trying to keep up with everyone. The thing however that frustrates me the most about all apps including this one is that they tend to stop listening before the conversation has ended. Whether I just push the button and let go or cold it during the entire time after certain. It’s stops listening and you have to stop the sound if you’re lucky enough to be able to rewind it. I would like it to be easier to use within an app and not have to copy and paste etc. but overall I really like it it’s the one I use most and I’ve got some I paid for that just don’t stack up. -
Indispensable app
I use many different languages throughout each day, usually just little phrases here and there in my writing. This app is indispensable to me as I work, and the translations seem to just get better and better with each update. I’ve read a few of the negative reviews, and while I’m sure the inconveniences described by these folks are real, it also seems they me be expecting a bit too much. The app is very straightforward in its basic function of translating text that is input by the user. The app is also by Google, and thus it is highly aspirational in its features, and each update seems to bring further enhancements that may or may not be truly useful. I understand how this might get frustrating, but that’s just Google’s style. Eventually the kinks get worked out based on user feedback, which is how I think it should be. As far as a basic free translation app, this one is far and away the best. -
The only reason I give it 4 stars is that when I translate something through camera(scan) it's sometimes capture the wanted word which I even can't crop because there is no option like crop the image.....so it would be better if there is something like crop or cut.......but everything else is super fine
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Google Translate needs a massive overhaul!
FEATURE REQUEST: Since most people are translating from a foreign language to their native language, it would be lovely if you could make your chosen language “stick” at the top of the list. I would prefer to have the languages I use most frequently stick to the top of the list. For me, they are: English, French, German, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. That would solve the annoyance of having to reselect one or more my core languages every time I deviate from my norm. I would like to include Croatian in my core list, but the machine voice for Croatian is unintelligible, even to native speakers because the sound quality is so poor and it speaks far too fast. HEBREW & YIDDISH: It is not possible to learn to speak or translate from either of these languages. Google has NO VOICE, machine or natural, for EITHER of them, nor does it scribe the translation using our common alphabet, Latin. At least then, I could make an attempt at the pronunciation of the words. I would cheerfully give Google Translate 5 stars as soon as these deficits are dealt with. -
Works great and incredibly useful to translate multiple languages. Offline option is great, allowing you to download a ''dictionary'' and translate when you don't have internet. Downside, anything you translate is entered into Google's logs and linked to you. To maintain privacy, use the Offline option and block Google Translate from internet access with something like NoRoot Firewall Functionality (5 stars) + Privacy (0 stars) = 3 stars total
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Your best companion while traveling!
This is hands down the best partner you can have while traveling short of someone who know the local language. It’s just incredible what all it can do. It translates (augmented reality) live in the screen what ever you point at. No, no snapshots, Live, you point it at a Menu in a restaurant or instructions on the wall and it sees Spanish or Japanese or whatever language and you see English or whatever language you like. Then comes conversing with locals. It has a live translator which speaks the local language. My taxi driver knew about this app and used it on his own when tying to communicate with me. Amazing, you talk in English and it speaks it back in Spanish and your local language. Then the other person speaks in Spanish or your local language and it speaks it back to you (and also shows it on the screen) in English. That’s a live 2 way conversation. Something you saw in Star Trek back in the day. The universal translator. No it’s not done yet. Yes you need an internet connection (data plans) for the above two buddies to work. For those who don’t have a data plan or internet access it has offline translations. It won’t speak but will translate anything to anything as you type it in. I’ve travelled 4 continents with this app so far and like I said it’s my best traveling companion.
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Wow
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Rather good
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Osam
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Jan 7, 2021 User-provided date and amount $20.00 $0.00 Rows per page
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Nice 👍👍👍👌
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பயனுள்ளதாக உள்ளது நன்றி...
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Good
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Its better to be if you have offline translation for all language
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Don't have tshivenda language
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Good
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Incredibly useful app. It would be great if there would be a way to have the app *never ask me ever again* to "set up Google Translate" whenever I open the app. There's no single set of languages that I translate between most often; it may be entirely random depending on what I'm doing. I explicitly do *not* want to set any default, but it seems like the app is nagging me to do so. Other than that, I love it.
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Accessibility for Instructional Design
Google Translate is now a form of augmented reality and is adapted for educational purposes. This application provides users with tools to translate between languages and they now include an image option; users take a photograph of a sign, piece of paper, or other form of written text and receive a translation in the language of their choice. This augmented reality is ground breaking because this allows online learners to access content in other languages. The application also translates spoken word in real time, which allows all learners to access audio in written form, in their own language, online or in-person. This version of augmented reality that is adapted for education can be utilized in an online learning environment and can be utilized by instructional designers. One of the major challenges with instructional design is selecting the correct tools to build learning experiences. With this application, instructional designers are able to create a course in their own language and can make their lesson accessible to learners by recommending Google Translate for accessibility. I plan to utilize this in conjunction with my online lessons and videos in order to reach more students with diverse abilities and primary languages. -
Very seamless tap to translate function, for which I installed it. I wish I could set up the tap to translate function to actually show the definition of the word in a particular language (English or French depending on the text) instead of the translation as it is more useful to me.
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Pages of Translation Lightening Fast, and Reliable!
If if you are using anything but Google translate to do your Spanish work for you, you are missing the boat. It translates whole pages of text instantly without error. It uses understandable language for our US - Mexico border area. I was using a different translator when I saw a doctor using Google to communicate with a Spanish only patient. That’s when I learned about Google Translate and switched. For the past two years, I have used a different Spanish translator/dictionary App. It was slow and tedious, only would translate a short paragraph at a time, but worse - it inserted words which were clearly wrong. One time instead of asking my gardener to complete a task, it inserted the word marriage into the sentence! His wife would have not been happy! Luckily I caught it before texting as I had to double- check every phrase. But now I no longer have to worry and each phrase is spot on. ( at least so far I think it’s been!). -
Indispensable app
I use many different languages throughout each day, usually just little phrases here and there in my writing. This app is indispensable to me as I work, and the translations seem to just get better and better with each update. I’ve read a few of the negative reviews, and while I’m sure the inconveniences described by these folks are real, it also seems they me be expecting a bit too much. The app is very straightforward in its basic function of translating text that is input by the user. The app is also by Google, and thus it is highly aspirational in its features, and each update seems to bring further enhancements that may or may not be truly useful. I understand how this might get frustrating, but that’s just Google’s style. Eventually the kinks get worked out based on user feedback, which is how I think it should be. As far as a basic free translation app, this one is far and away the best. -
Your best companion while traveling!
This is hands down the best partner you can have while traveling short of someone who know the local language. It’s just incredible what all it can do. It translates (augmented reality) live in the screen what ever you point at. No, no snapshots, Live, you point it at a Menu in a restaurant or instructions on the wall and it sees Spanish or Japanese or whatever language and you see English or whatever language you like. Then comes conversing with locals. It has a live translator which speaks the local language. My taxi driver knew about this app and used it on his own when tying to communicate with me. Amazing, you talk in English and it speaks it back in Spanish and your local language. Then the other person speaks in Spanish or your local language and it speaks it back to you (and also shows it on the screen) in English. That’s a live 2 way conversation. Something you saw in Star Trek back in the day. The universal translator. No it’s not done yet. Yes you need an internet connection (data plans) for the above two buddies to work. For those who don’t have a data plan or internet access it has offline translations. It won’t speak but will translate anything to anything as you type it in. I’ve travelled 4 continents with this app so far and like I said it’s my best traveling companion. -
Super Helpful!
I use google translate a lot, as a Korean pop fan, sometimes translations don’t come out and I have to use google translate to translate what I want to see. Using the app makes it SO MUCH EASIER. I love the writing and camera feature. Sometimes the camera doesn’t always find all the words, but the feature is so helpful when im writing and I want to check my work, or if something is in a different language and I want to know what it is. The writing feature is also super awesome because I can write in the word in example, Korean and it translates it for me. Sometimes I do feel like the translations are not very accurate as in when I put the other translation through to check and it comes out as something different, but of course the translations can’t always be correct. Overall, the app is easy to use and I love it! ♥️🤠 -
I love this app
I do not know enough Spanish and English is my primary language. So, I have had this app since Spring 2015 to communicate with my non English speaking friends who speaks only Spanish . It is so useful to show text info to a friend or to email to them. The speaker can talk for you in person. The reverse feature can help you check accuracy in the communicated info before you send email. I think they are getting better. Great in a debate with Someone. Your non English speaking friends can not fake ignorance: don’t know English to you. I have not had to use the picture translate mode much. I phone can Cut, Paste and Send in text or email. I am sure picture translate it just as good for reading materials. I use other language too and almost every day. -
Awesome, and some recommendation (for now).
This app is awesome! Been using it for a year now. I have some recommendation tho'. Do you mind adding a feature where it shows various dialect (accent), both in writing, speaking, reading, etc...? For example, Japanese. Japanese have three writing system (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji) as well as Romaji, which is the Japanese way of writing words in English. So do you mind putting them in category or organizing them if translated? Would be nice if you add footnote for each words that shows like in what way can this word be applicable. This is the recommendation I have for now, and I do think it will change this app greatly feature-wise because there is still confusion because one word can mean many things, and can be used differently depending on context. -
Fantastic app
When I had this on my I pad I was so dumb because I didn’t know how to use it,* 2 years later * I was looking for a translator app on App Store and has to be free because I know my dad and mom can’t it for me so I looked and looked most of them wanted me to buy it and I can’t buy it so I looked and looked again and I found this app I download it and when Open the app it was free and you can use A lot of languages in the app, in most apps you could only use one language so that made me happy and the other stuff about it! I love the app! It’s the only app that I like to use for language! I hope other people like the app I saw some bad reviews I don’t know what’s their problem but yea I hope everyone likes it and yea! Thats all I wanted to say so yea, have a great day! :)
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Need to continually update and add new features
This app is so much better than Microsoft translator. I used it first set a lot of messages on social media to new friends only to find out those messages were a jumbled mess of random words. They assume you lack the skills and ability process thoughts into Russian even with translator. It’s hard to come back from. I love that you can translate live with the camera because a lot of times I’m watching a broadcast or something and trying to keep up with everyone. The thing however that frustrates me the most about all apps including this one is that they tend to stop listening before the conversation has ended. Whether I just push the button and let go or cold it during the entire time after certain. It’s stops listening and you have to stop the sound if you’re lucky enough to be able to rewind it. I would like it to be easier to use within an app and not have to copy and paste etc. but overall I really like it it’s the one I use most and I’ve got some I paid for that just don’t stack up. -
The only reason I give it 4 stars is that when I translate something through camera(scan) it's sometimes capture the wanted word which I even can't crop because there is no option like crop the image.....so it would be better if there is something like crop or cut.......but everything else is super fine
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Sometimes the translation isn't all that accurate but it's still a good app. I know it's quite hard to get people that speak all those languages so it must be hard. The camera isn't so good tho. Its hard to keep the camera still and that makes it hard to scan and optimize. Bit i like this app. :)
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Writing space is very limited. By adding at least four or five lines, the writer can write in a manner consistent with the subject matter of the previous writing to maintain the continuity of his writing. Also accurate translation in Bengali and Hindi. Although I had already made a request in this regard in the mail. I hope you will pay attention to this.
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Good app, but bugs or improvements needed
I really like this app, but there are many bugs and difficulty when using it. For example, when using the speech function it constantly stops working, saying there is a connection error where there isn't any. Or if my phone tilts a little bit on its side, the audio will stop and I have to start it all over again. This brings me to my next point: editing text. When you try to edit the text youre translating, its difficult to click it to be able to edit it or even find the spot you want to edit since the space is so small and cluttered. A function that will be really helpful is a pause/play button when youre having the text be read allowed and when the text is being read allowed, it doesnt stop if the device tilts to one side. -
Extremely handy, but not perfect...
This is useful when someone speaks to me in a foreign language when I’m abroad, and I always use it to translate text in things. But there are some problems. One is that the US English voice sounds a little robotic,so can you make it sound more natural? Another one is that you can’t save long phrases. Some are very important, but still can’t be saved, therefore I have to save it elsewhere, which isn’t very convenient. An older version allowed you to save long phrases! Why not anymore? Lastly, some languages can’t be spoken in the app. Some of them I really need can’t be read aloud, so I won’t be able to use the conversation function for those languages’ countries. If you fix all these bugs, I will give 5 stars. -
Really good for offline translation
Google Translate (the app) is much better than the browser version. You can translate offline and that is great. They’ve greatly improved their translations (their Latin is still pathetic, as it has been for many years). It still has problems picking up on nuances and dialects of certain languages. If you are speaking an uncommon language, expect your translation to come out like something from a textbook or hahaha Google Translate. The AI picks up on some slang and common sayings, but it’s sometimes inaccurate. Also, the app drains your battery like nobody’s business. I was translating for ten minutes and lost 14% of my battery. My phone is also inefficient, but all my other apps are much better with battery power than Google Translate. -
Nearly perfect but lacks small features I'd like to see added
When I click on the text box to type, I'd like to see a "Paste" and "Paste and translate" box dialogue pop up without having to click the typing area a second time. Additionally, it would be nice to have a "Translate text from clipboard" option for Force Touch when on the home screen. Currently the only Force Touch capability is "Share Translate". Finally, and this is not for every user as it's a bit more technical, I would like to see a URL scheme so that external apps such as Workflow can quickly open Translate and use its functionality quickly. This is especially useful if one is consistently translating between three languages and needs to switch the language often. -
Worked well, sadly owned by Google
I used the program quite a bit and found it to work quite well. That said, I gave the program the four stars it deserved. Unfortunately it’s owned by Google and with ever increasing concerns over their lack of respect for privacy, political pandering, and shady business practices I deleted it as soon as Apple launched their free version. This was the last Google owned product I had on any device. Again, the program worked fine. Once in a great while it would get stuck but that was very rare. It seemed to need constant updates too. In fairness it had a lot more languages than the current Apple version but it also took up a huge chunk of memory. Given time I feel the Apple version will be just as good if not better. -
Uh ok..
Ok so, I have had Google Translate for many years. I loved it. A few months ago, I Tried learning Russian. I just thought it would be an interesting language to learn. Everything was awesome. I was writing it down, and barely memorizing it.. 😂 I loved (trying) to learn Russian until the very day we wrote this review. I was going to translate Hi, even though I had already memorized it. If you don’t know, Hi in Russian is Привет. It sort of sounds like ‘preeviat’ 😂, but when I translated it again, it had something different. It gave me this translation, “Здравствуй.” I am not saying it’s a bad app, I mean, it is only one language that I have noticed, but if you see this, can you please answer why it changed? Thank you so much! Bye y’all!
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Google Translate needs a massive overhaul!
FEATURE REQUEST: Since most people are translating from a foreign language to their native language, it would be lovely if you could make your chosen language “stick” at the top of the list. I would prefer to have the languages I use most frequently stick to the top of the list. For me, they are: English, French, German, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. That would solve the annoyance of having to reselect one or more my core languages every time I deviate from my norm. I would like to include Croatian in my core list, but the machine voice for Croatian is unintelligible, even to native speakers because the sound quality is so poor and it speaks far too fast. HEBREW & YIDDISH: It is not possible to learn to speak or translate from either of these languages. Google has NO VOICE, machine or natural, for EITHER of them, nor does it scribe the translation using our common alphabet, Latin. At least then, I could make an attempt at the pronunciation of the words. I would cheerfully give Google Translate 5 stars as soon as these deficits are dealt with. -
Works great and incredibly useful to translate multiple languages. Offline option is great, allowing you to download a ''dictionary'' and translate when you don't have internet. Downside, anything you translate is entered into Google's logs and linked to you. To maintain privacy, use the Offline option and block Google Translate from internet access with something like NoRoot Firewall Functionality (5 stars) + Privacy (0 stars) = 3 stars total
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Still inserts the word "oh" whenever I say comma. Otherwise a much better way to utilize speech to text than Samsung's slow translator. Both products need correct capitalization protocols. Names of persons, places or special events should be capitalized; not every 1st letter of a song name and so forth. Just ask Weird Al with a doctorate in language.
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Good but not what is needed
This program is useless when trying to overhear peoples conversations or listen to a speech. You can’t tell people to slow down and pause so you can translate each thing they said. That just does not work and is not practical. If I’m watching a show on TV in Chinese it is also fairly useless unless you want to press pause every few seconds. Also when people are talking, you have to tell them to speak slowly and carefully. That is ridiculous. And you have to wait until they have completed a sentence to translate. That is silly. What is needed is for the App to translate as a person is speaking. The user would just wear earphones an be able to listen nearly real time just like a real translator does. Or the translated words would appear as the person is speaking. The function that translates what is written kind of works. It fluctuate the transition consistently until you freeze the frame. Obviously this function needs improving. -
I used to love this app. Now in the past week or so it crashes a lot, every few minutes. This is irritating when in the middle of a sentence. Web version is still great. Will be looking for other options for mobile, though.
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Works decently well, but has some problems
Google Translate certainly works quite a bit better than some random online translation service, but there are quite a few things that could be improved. Pros: - Does a generally good (though not perfect) job translating phrases and idioms. In particular, many expressions that mean something in one language but doesn’t make sense in another are correctly translated to the analogous expression in the other language. - Has an offline download feature that lets you translate without reception. This is of course very useful when your phone service doesn’t work overseas. - Allows the saving of translations for future reference, but that doesn’t seem extremely useful. Cons: - One cannot choose to switch between various forms of a phrase for languages that have multiple types of conjugations. For example, you can’t choose to have French use tu instead of vous. - The translation of a word does not show whether the word is masculine or feminine for languages where it’s relevant. - While the offline feature is useful, it’s *extremely* slow. In fact, the online feature can be quite slow sometimes too. I chose to give the app 3 stars because for me, the cons make it quite cumbersome to use this app as a general translation / reference manual. -
It's eh it's not that great I mean it is kind of like a mobile version of Google translate and it has more features than the online one but a problem is that it's hard to translate pictures and if it does translate it usually translates incorrectly on pictures soo it's only really good for text translation and not pictures but you might as well use the online me one at this point
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Useful, but be cautious
I use google translate all the time and find it useful to define word and phrases. However, when I try using the translations to converse with native speakers, they often do not understand what I am saying because the translation is off or completely out of context. For example “I need some bags” translated into Spanish came out as “I need some pants” when translated back to English the way any normal person would speak. I had this same problem using google duo to learn languages, as the AI translations seem too rigid to mimic how language is used in conversation. The one feature though that is SUPER COOL is how you can take pictures of writing in any language and it will translate the written words for you! This is awesome! So, this app definitely has some redeeming qualities, in my opinion -
Great for
A wonderful product. And yet, it is impossible that the googs are unaware of the sexism issues they designed into it, and more than dismaying that these have not been corrected. I think all female users of Spanish and Italian translations to/from English should consider a class action lawsuit related to the constant slaps in the face we endure from this app's male-gendrist design: 1) Google assumes and defaults to male subjects: Frequent occasions where the app provides a translation with the pronoun(s) "he, him, his" when "she, her, hers" would be equally valid. There is no reason any longer to use male as the default translation gender. Both sentence versions should be offered by the app, with the female version shown first at least half the time. 2) Google chooses different translations by gender; e.g. the app makes different verb choices depending upon whether the subject of the input sentence is male or female. Example: "She's busy." È impegnata. "He's busy." È occupato. I am beyond irritated. I'm angry at rich powerful google for making half of us put up with what the other half doesn't. Fixing these isn't rocket science. -
Want the female voice back for KOREAN
I have been using the google translate app for over a year and it’s default for English to Korean or Korean to English was always a female voice. About 2 weeks ago, this changed over night without noticed. Now, the Korean voice is default to a male voice. Why did you take away the female voice? I am learning Korean and a female. I would be willing to pay for the app if there is an option for female voices. And if you are trying to improve the app, users should be able to have an option to choose the voice gender. Google taking away the female voice just doesn’t make sense to me because you already have that function to begin with.
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Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.
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Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.
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Hard to Use, Inaccurate, Barely Works
Many times when I record audio or pictures, the translation doesn’t even come up. The audio is worse since no matter what I do, speaking into the microphone is just a bust. I’ll say something into the microphone, and it won’t do anything. It doesn’t even load, it just indefinitely waits for me to say more. No matter how much I say, real words or not, it doesn’t ever even acknowledge that I’m done talking and if I hit any buttons, the X to close it or microphone button that you’d think would tell what it said, just cancel out of it. Not to mention, taking pics is a nightmare. You have to highlight with your finger the phrases you want translated, but you can’t move the picture around easily. So if you zoom into a certain part, it’s hard to zoom back out, and you can’t move the picture at all without zooming in or out. So if you zoom out in a way that makes the pic go off to the side, well, too bad. Why can’t it just detect the words itself? Or at the very least, why can’t I translate more then one thing in a picture, and do I have to take the same picture again and again just to see everything it says? -
the voice translation is so inaccurate!!! Some serious issues there!!!! Almost everytime I say a sentence it doesn't recognize a word said. E.g.: There were 2 minutes left and Google translate understands this: there award 2 minutes, and most of the time doesn't understand the last word said and leaves it blank... It even comes out with wrong translations: mandioca is manioc, and aipim is cassava (not wahoo)... I hope Google translate doesn't embarrass me again with wrong translations...
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Terrible design - using the browser version is better
I installed this because I frequently use the browser version in Google to translate between English and French and I thought the app would be more convenient. Took me less than a minute to see the flaws in it. It's a horribly designed app - for example, in the browser version you can "switch" the languages around to make the destination language the source language. This is really helpful if, for example, you wish to practice making sentences in a language and then switch them around to compare your sentence to how Google translates it. In the app, there is a switch button but it switches the TEXT between windows instead of just switching which is source and which is destination - so my French sentence goes into the English window and vice versa, meaning they don't get translated. This is either a really stupid bug or an inexcusable design flaw, and to be honest it's entirely what I've come to expect from Google software. There are ALWAYS really stupid bugs and oversights which people complain about for years but which they never fix. Oh well, uninstalling it now. -
This app use to be good. Now it's horrible. I have to keep uninstalling and re installing because the translator always stop working. And the "tap to translate". Not good. Everyone I talk to is searching for a better translator. Please, go back to the way things were. Also, I can't get the icon on my phone.
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Until, The DeepL Translator was recommended by a colleague, Google translate was the only one I was using. I have to mention, the translation from German to English or vice a versa is not comparable to DeepL. The feature that helps alot is the camera scan option.
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Flawed text scanning and translations
This is an amazing translation app, especially the real-time camera mode, straight out of science-fiction! However, it gives different results between camera Instant mode and Scan mode (often the Instant translation is close but a little off, Scan is more accurate but slower). A big problem with Scan mode is random omission of Japanese symbols from the source text and/or incorrect scans (wrong characters), so you’re unable to get a complete translation (frustrating). There are also frequent Google network errors resulting in delayed translation (or none at all), and frequent app crashes. You cannot pinch-zoom the camera, which is a problem on a smaller screen or text sizes. You can share/save only the translation results and not the scanned original foreign language text. I also don’t like how the camera mode always defaults to Instant instead of the last setting used. So although this is a convenient app for translations, it still needs a bit of work to get a higher rating from me. -
I am unable to clear the default browser Google Translate uses to translate webpages. No matter how many times I clear cache/data/defaults, the app insists on opening a web page in a browser (Puffin) I no longer have installed. I cannot get the app to open in any other browser. There is no option to clear Google Translates default browser once set. Not even uninstalling the browser will clear Google Translates default browser. Setting another browser as a default, Google Translate still errors.
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Also...extend the recorder time out time on dite and app. Some languages are difficult to pronounce. App translations are sloppy compared to the web based translator.🤔 Also when reversing translations...the top section stays the same...this didn't happen before. I'm Translating Russian btw. Screen translation would be nice & night mode would be great to!!! 👌🌚 eat = есть ... but есть = there is??? wth🤔 The web based translator seems way better... couldn't you just match them up?
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Please,add Sindhi Language as voice speaking and offline
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This app is translating incorrectly. Very simple translation is giving wrong.This one star is only given for uploading post.
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Instant Translate
This would be a great app if the instant translate feature would work. Every time I point the camera at whatever I want to translate, it shows nothing. Very frustrating. -
Nice app, but look at the data linked to you!!!
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Where have all the languages go????
Terrible app update from Google. Lots of languages were removed from the app and relocated to online only. App became useless. Please, restore Ukrainian language to offline use, otherwise, remain irrelevant for 30 million people -
Latest update was a fail, can’t use camera anymore
Since the last update I can no longer use the camera or images and have them translated. I receive fun gifts from a friend in Japan and would use the app to translate what the packages are so I know I am not going to eat what is bath salts or a face mask (the soup and bath salts have similar packaging)! Without the camera option the app is useless. I am uninstalling. -
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Used to but Doesn’t now
The first time I use this Google translate app, I was really impressed with the results. I first downloaded this app in Spring 2020, I believe, and everything worked relatively smooth whenever I wanted to translate Mandarin to English. But more recently, I have had major trouble getting the translation to work for screenshots of Chinese websites. At this point, it consistently does not work for what I need to. -
The new update is horrible
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Doesn’t work at all
The sound doesn’t work at all, so if it’s in a language that doesn’t use the alphabet then it’s impossible to understand what you’re reading unless you know the language, even though I’m practicing Japanese, I have to see kanji that I don’t even know instead of hiragana or katana or even romaji making this app completely useless s d the feature you use to speak also doesn’t work
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Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.
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Before now the app was super. But now the function tap to translate is not working anymore like before. The floating icon is on the screen all the time, disturbing me. And it is wasting of the time to make it on and off every time I need it. It is the same like to copy and to go into app to paste the text there. Please fix this problem.
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Until, The DeepL Translator was recommended by a colleague, Google translate was the only one I was using. I have to mention, the translation from German to English or vice a versa is not comparable to DeepL. The feature that helps alot is the camera scan option.
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Also...extend the recorder time out time on dite and app. Some languages are difficult to pronounce. App translations are sloppy compared to the web based translator.🤔 Also when reversing translations...the top section stays the same...this didn't happen before. I'm Translating Russian btw. Screen translation would be nice & night mode would be great to!!! 👌🌚 eat = есть ... but есть = there is??? wth🤔 The web based translator seems way better... couldn't you just match them up?
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Never translate site in English has not worked effectively at all. I do not want a translation for sites already in English. Google translate does not seem to understand. At first, I thought it was a problem with my browser and cleared history completely and data. I cleared data for translate app too. Even then it asks for translation.
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Current version default. - don’t like the change
I use google translate more than any app and I have loved it for years. The translation keeps getting better and more accurate. I give the latest revision a 2 because of a change that adds a step to translating during a conversation. The default used to be simply reversed when I selected the “translate to” language as “translate from” (ie when I was using “translate English to spanish” and selected “translate Spanish” and “to English” would automatically appear). Now I have to select both to and from each time- adding an additional step to each sentence. I don’t know why this change was made- if I needed an entirely different language I’d need to select it- it would never be “English to English” or “Spanish to Spanish”. Maybe this is an oversight but please fix it. Thanks very much and thanks for your app. -
Awful but can be useful
The main issue with this is if you’re trying to translate certain languages such as Japanese or Chinese, it’s unable to show me what it’s saying because one character can be a big word, but it’ll display that word huge and block out other words. If any words are in a font that aren’t just straight lines then it has a lot of difficulty reading things. Also a strange thing I find is that no matter what language, if it can’t see the words, it’ll put out random words, most commonly it says “mosquito” or “death” which is a bit creepy and odd. It will also pick up other edges of the scenery and translate those non-word images into “mosquito” or “death” or something else not related. I get that we don’t live in 2058 yet but these issues with the app aren’t new. But what else do we have that even works remotely as good? Maybe someday it’ll be better. -
Feedback
Overall this is a great app the only issue is with translating images. Most of the time I would use to translate screenshots from my phone, but it requires many taps: For example in order to translate one screenshot you would need to tap 4 times: camera / import / photos / photo. Then select / highlight text. After selecting text you get a small preview in blue background. This is great for short text phrases. If you got a longer sentence you will need to tap to see full translation. If you do this then it takes you out of your image highlight tool and if you got more things to highlight and translate from the same screen then you have to do all over again tap tap tap tap tap. Sorry google translate team, this is really annoying and time consuming. Can’t you do it better? -
Severe problems to automatically detect languages.
The current version of translate appears to have a problem of detecting the correct language. This hasn’t been a problem in the past. This happens In conversation/dual language mode were no choice/preference for one of the two languages pairs is set. Here, the app would quite frequently “translate” English sentences into English rather then translating them into German or Spanish. This is a very avoidable flaw. For example the spoken sentence “Hello how are you doing?” Is just repeated as “Hello how are you doing?” rather than translated to “Hallo, wie geht es Ihnen?”. A simple comparison of the input sentence and the translation should illustrate this problem to an evaluation / quality control algorithm to assess this problem on your server. No artificial intelligence needed. Please fix this! -
Not where I am in China
I only gave it some stars because it gave me the confidence to leave the hotel and wander around. However, the five different people I used it with just shook their heads and smiled. I had to find other ways to communicate because they had no idea what the translation meant. (I know they wanted to be polite so I wouldn’t lose face, but we still all had a good laugh at my sign language attempts.) Maybe it’s a different dialect in Wuhan, or maybe I first need to think in Chinese syntax and then speak my English. But I need to find another app for the rest of my trip. (Here is where I may give the benefit of the doubt: Google is blocked by the government here, so maybe the people don’t want to admit having even looked at it.)
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Hard to Use, Inaccurate, Barely Works
Many times when I record audio or pictures, the translation doesn’t even come up. The audio is worse since no matter what I do, speaking into the microphone is just a bust. I’ll say something into the microphone, and it won’t do anything. It doesn’t even load, it just indefinitely waits for me to say more. No matter how much I say, real words or not, it doesn’t ever even acknowledge that I’m done talking and if I hit any buttons, the X to close it or microphone button that you’d think would tell what it said, just cancel out of it. Not to mention, taking pics is a nightmare. You have to highlight with your finger the phrases you want translated, but you can’t move the picture around easily. So if you zoom into a certain part, it’s hard to zoom back out, and you can’t move the picture at all without zooming in or out. So if you zoom out in a way that makes the pic go off to the side, well, too bad. Why can’t it just detect the words itself? Or at the very least, why can’t I translate more then one thing in a picture, and do I have to take the same picture again and again just to see everything it says? -
the voice translation is so inaccurate!!! Some serious issues there!!!! Almost everytime I say a sentence it doesn't recognize a word said. E.g.: There were 2 minutes left and Google translate understands this: there award 2 minutes, and most of the time doesn't understand the last word said and leaves it blank... It even comes out with wrong translations: mandioca is manioc, and aipim is cassava (not wahoo)... I hope Google translate doesn't embarrass me again with wrong translations...
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Terrible design - using the browser version is better
I installed this because I frequently use the browser version in Google to translate between English and French and I thought the app would be more convenient. Took me less than a minute to see the flaws in it. It's a horribly designed app - for example, in the browser version you can "switch" the languages around to make the destination language the source language. This is really helpful if, for example, you wish to practice making sentences in a language and then switch them around to compare your sentence to how Google translates it. In the app, there is a switch button but it switches the TEXT between windows instead of just switching which is source and which is destination - so my French sentence goes into the English window and vice versa, meaning they don't get translated. This is either a really stupid bug or an inexcusable design flaw, and to be honest it's entirely what I've come to expect from Google software. There are ALWAYS really stupid bugs and oversights which people complain about for years but which they never fix. Oh well, uninstalling it now. -
This app use to be good. Now it's horrible. I have to keep uninstalling and re installing because the translator always stop working. And the "tap to translate". Not good. Everyone I talk to is searching for a better translator. Please, go back to the way things were. Also, I can't get the icon on my phone.
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Flawed text scanning and translations
This is an amazing translation app, especially the real-time camera mode, straight out of science-fiction! However, it gives different results between camera Instant mode and Scan mode (often the Instant translation is close but a little off, Scan is more accurate but slower). A big problem with Scan mode is random omission of Japanese symbols from the source text and/or incorrect scans (wrong characters), so you’re unable to get a complete translation (frustrating). There are also frequent Google network errors resulting in delayed translation (or none at all), and frequent app crashes. You cannot pinch-zoom the camera, which is a problem on a smaller screen or text sizes. You can share/save only the translation results and not the scanned original foreign language text. I also don’t like how the camera mode always defaults to Instant instead of the last setting used. So although this is a convenient app for translations, it still needs a bit of work to get a higher rating from me. -
I am unable to clear the default browser Google Translate uses to translate webpages. No matter how many times I clear cache/data/defaults, the app insists on opening a web page in a browser (Puffin) I no longer have installed. I cannot get the app to open in any other browser. There is no option to clear Google Translates default browser once set. Not even uninstalling the browser will clear Google Translates default browser. Setting another browser as a default, Google Translate still errors.
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Out of 111 words, 28 were correct. Had do to Google searches to get other translations. That's about 25%. 25% of 5 stars is 1.25 stars, so I give it one. Hope Google can expand their dictionaries. It's 2021.
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Japanese to English is just laughable
I use Google for translating German lieder and Italian operatic arias I am working on into English. Translations are fair to poor. But since I started living part time in Japan, I tried using it to translate Japanese Emails to English. I am moderately fluent in Japanese. The results were hilariously bad. For example katakana “kare” which can be translated as he, curry, boyfriend, etc. is always translated as curry, even though from the context it obviously means boyfriend. My name is Bill, this is katakana “biru” in Japanese but is translated as building in English, even when it is followed by “san” in which case it is obviously a name. Japanese sentences generally omit personal pronouns, which must be supplied in English translations. These are usually obvious from the context, but apparently not to Google’s algorithms, which almost always guess wrong. I can’t believe that ten years into the age of AI, Google translate could be so bad. It makes one wonder about other AI apps, such as self-driving cars. -
Was reliable but now its crap
i used google translate for everything. I live in a nonEnglish speaking nation so it came in very handy. but since the latest update I've had innumerable issues with it. I can't copy and paste it just puts in "TEST" when I paste something. the keyboard is messed up with emojis instead of words in the predictive text lines. the keyboard is laggy and often replaces correctly spelled words with incorrectly spelled ones. the keyboard has a globe symbol at the bottom that opens first with a list of emotions instead of the keyboard. it doesn't auto capitalize the letter of a first word in a sentence. it doesn't input a period at the end of a sentence . many times it doesn't input the letter I type. if i capitalize something i have to hit the shift typea the letter and hit the shift again or it CAPITALIZES EVERYTHING. all the letters appear capitalized on the keyboard regardless if the shift is on or not. it does this in other internet based apps as well but it started with the google translate app. -
.To /Google Translate #kurdishsorani
.To /Google Translate Greeting of peace and prosperity Above all, we would like to extend our sincere greetings for the “Google Translate Community” staff. we would like to request our language to be in your site, as you see Kurdish-Sorani does not exist in the list of Google Translate, the language is spoken in Northern Iraq , Kurdistan Region officially , and at the same time the language is spoken in Iran, Iranian Kurdistan, or Eastern Kurdistan, More than 45 million Kurds need the language in the world, and it is spoken and official in northern Iraq /Kurdistan Region, government uses the language in all the parties of government , it uses in schools and directorates , so please accept our request , it is very important to students and people even for government and merchants, teachers, students, and so on . We need Kurdish sorani on Google translate, so that we get rid of having struggles in accurate translation from other languages. Thank you, best regards.
- Efficient and effective translations between 103 languages, you can tap to translate, and translate anywhere in 59 languages even when offline
- 2 great ways to learn: conversation mode (2-way instant translation in 32 languages) and handwriting (draw characters, no keyboard necessary)
- Take a picture for easy translation with instant camera translation in 38 languages and camera mode in 37 languages
Reviewed by Laura S on January 26, 2018
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