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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
Filter Reviews
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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. -
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!). -
I love this app! I use it often, as I speak a bit of a few languages and often need to clarify words or phrases (especially composing them). I once had to write a letter to my Chinese neighbour, who spoke very little English, and I was nervous about Google getting the translation wrong, so I asked a Chinese friend to check it for me, and she said it was spot-on! 👍
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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. -
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 camera text translation works very well. Of course the translation seems a little off, but its hard to directly translate, especially from Japanese, which is what I've been using it for. The font in Aninal Crossing is not an ordinary font but it can still recognize the distorted, Japanese characters. All in all bravo
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The only thing I really translate is Japanese, a language with a lot of symbols in it, so I have to use the handwriting feature due to how inaccurate the camera can be. However, when I do use the handwriting feature, when I write one symbol after the other (after the first one is already registered and I go and write the second symbol) it duplicates many of the previously written symbols. (Basically if you were to write the equivalent of "apple", it would show up as "aapappapplapple")
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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. -
Great app. Best resource for translating a few languages. Fantastic catalogue of vocabulary for most of the languages it has. I love the tap to translate feature. I'm gonna keep it at 3 stars till I can have more than 5 languages in recent languages. (8 would probably be ideal, but I'd settle for 7 and even 6 would be better than 5. 10 might be nice or it might be overwhelming, I'm not sure.) Or maybe have a setting where you can choose how many languages to keep in recent languages.
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The Tap To Translate is nice on Android 9,when you copy something to clipboard, the floating icon will appear immediately. But since Android 10,the floating icon is keep showing and I should turn it on when I want to use it and off when I don't need it. It's confusing that why don't you change it back to what it was like on Android 9, it's quite better!
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Amazing App
I think this is amazing application it has met all my needs. Is there any chance that there’s gonna be a widget for this application to translate quicker? -
google translation app slow
It was working fine in some days but sometimes google translation app is so slow! Please fix it? -
I don’t like the account feature
Was it necessary? 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️ -
You finally got rid of that hideous blue color on Dark Mode
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Fun
I don’t use it to translate stuff I don’t know I just mess around with it which is very fun to do. Get it today to make random lingo more confusing. -
اين اللغة السريانية؟
Where is the Syriac language? Please add it as soon as possible and thank you -
THANKS GOOGLE
Thanks language KURDISH -
Apple Watch app
Please add Apple Watch app like Microsoft translator. -
Can’t translate static images
Why was this feature removed? It was a very useful feature. -
Ok mani
Tot
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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. -
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!). -
I love this app! I use it often, as I speak a bit of a few languages and often need to clarify words or phrases (especially composing them). I once had to write a letter to my Chinese neighbour, who spoke very little English, and I was nervous about Google getting the translation wrong, so I asked a Chinese friend to check it for me, and she said it was spot-on! 👍
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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 camera text translation works very well. Of course the translation seems a little off, but its hard to directly translate, especially from Japanese, which is what I've been using it for. The font in Aninal Crossing is not an ordinary font but it can still recognize the distorted, Japanese characters. All in all bravo
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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. -
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! ♥️🤠 -
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. -
Really love the functionality of this app. Being able to take pictures and highlight to translate was an absolute game changer for me. This app has been very useful when dealing with people in games or on media from all different countries. I was able to communicate with those of which I would never be able to speak to otherwise.
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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.
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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 thing I really translate is Japanese, a language with a lot of symbols in it, so I have to use the handwriting feature due to how inaccurate the camera can be. However, when I do use the handwriting feature, when I write one symbol after the other (after the first one is already registered and I go and write the second symbol) it duplicates many of the previously written symbols. (Basically if you were to write the equivalent of "apple", it would show up as "aapappapplapple")
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The Tap To Translate is nice on Android 9,when you copy something to clipboard, the floating icon will appear immediately. But since Android 10,the floating icon is keep showing and I should turn it on when I want to use it and off when I don't need it. It's confusing that why don't you change it back to what it was like on Android 9, it's quite better!
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I'm using this app since long time. It's wonderful translation application. Easy sentences translated very nicely. But difficulty during creative & poetic Language. While using translation between English, Hindi & Gujarati - Some sentences with Creative & poetic writing could not translated properly. More mistakes are found During Gujarati Translation. Else Everything is BETTER.
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Perfect application, except for automatic language detection. It only works online. But if, for example, I enter "kočka", it should detect it and translate it into Russian if both languages are downloaded. I would be grateful if it would work that way. Thank you.
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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. -
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. -
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! -
Request
بۆ/ وەرگێرانى گۆگل To /Google Translate Greeting of peace and prosperity to you all, we would like to extend our sincere greetings for the “Google Translate Community”. We would like to request our language to be in your site and app., 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. 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 departments of governmental offices , the language is used in schools, directorates, and all other official places in Kurdistan Region, 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 will not have problem of inaccurate translation from other languages. Thank you, best regards. "سوپاس بۆ وەرگێرنى گۆگل" "Thanks to Google Translate" -
Not like the normal Google translate
So one function that I use very often on Google Translate is that middle button that switches the two languages. On the Google Translate app it doesn't copy the text over and translate it back to the original language. Instead, it leaves the original writing that I put in and tries to translate my original writing back into the language it already is in. If I wanted to use the online translator function, I would have to copy it and then paste it into the translate side and that is really tedious on mobile. Please fix.
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Great app. Best resource for translating a few languages. Fantastic catalogue of vocabulary for most of the languages it has. I love the tap to translate feature. I'm gonna keep it at 3 stars till I can have more than 5 languages in recent languages. (8 would probably be ideal, but I'd settle for 7 and even 6 would be better than 5. 10 might be nice or it might be overwhelming, I'm not sure.) Or maybe have a setting where you can choose how many languages to keep in recent languages.
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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. -
In "tap to translate" the copied text cannot be edited and the drop down menu with "copy" and "open in main app" options disappears as soon as "new translation" is chosen. Cannot choose between dark and light theme in the main app, the system settings are enforced (not consistent with other Google apps). Also the dark theme does not apply to "tap to translate". Keeping "tap to translate" like a separate app is a pointless waste of time and resources. AND GIVE MORE CHARACTERS FOR FEEDBACKS!
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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. -
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. -
New bug
I do like this app i have tried many others and this this one seems to be the best..........however that really isn’t saying much because it seems like all of the apps just don’t translate very good with phrases the common ones they do fine with but beyond that it just isn’t very correct (talking about Spanish to English) I know it’s probably very hard but I don’t have anyone to teach me Spanish and I’m really depending on this app (I’m sure some other people are that way too) but I encourage you guys to please work on the translation P.S there was a bug for the last update the “clear translation history” will not.....clear -
Buggy
There are a couple of bugs using the Google Translate. The first bug is that whilst using the translate back and forth between other apps, the autocorrection no longer works. I would always have to quit Google Translate in the background, then reopen for it to work properly again. Another bug is the emoji. The emojis are not properly displayed whilst translating or they simply don't appear at all. I also have a couple of suggestions. First suggestion is to allow us entering line breaks. Another suggestion is to allow us adjust the text size. Please consider all of these bugs and features. Thank you! -
What’s the Hurry??!
I sometimes wonder if these software designers talk to anyone outside their cubicles. While it translates well, it’s lacking at least one very important feature - an adjustment, and a way to disable completely, the timeout period. In conversation mode, If you stop talking for 2-3 seconds, say to take a breath, or momentarily search for the right words, the darn thing decides on its own that you’re done speaking, and it immediately recites (in the translated language,) what you’ve said so far. That’s fine if you’ve completed a sentence, but if not, it leads to improper translations, since quite often there isn’t enough context to perform an accurate translation. This is a particular problem for the elderly, like my 86 year old mother-in-law, who pauses for more then 2 seconds when she’s speaking. There should be a way to increase or completely disable the timeout, with perhaps an “I’m Done” button (in the appropriate language of course.)
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I am really dissatisfied that the "tap to translate" function icon is permanently fixed on the screen (or needs to be enabled / disabled with each translation). This is completely irritating and ineffective. The previous way, where the icon appeared and disappeared quickly after translating the desired word, was extremely efficient and well elaborated. I don't know what Google's intentions are, but the company managed to make a terrible app that has always been wonderful.
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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? -
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. -
What the f happened to the pop up translation? That was the easiest and most convenient way to translate for someone who uses this frequently. Maybe for someone trying to translate a single phrase or word once in awhile it's fine, but I actually communicate with people overseas using this. Why would you change it? I just got a new phone and never expected an app to GET WORSE. Is it going back to the original tap to translate pop up??
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Seems like Google haven't done a single translation with this app Cause if they had used it, they would see what's wrong with it. Anyway after 6 months no change, we are forced to see only one line of text when we translating a pasted text, even though we have 3 inches of free space come on Google Get better developers. OK Google LLC you posted a link for us to tell you how to be better, but we are unable to open that link directly. No way anyone will write that link.
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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. -
Great Experience with this.. It helps me a lot to improve my English language.. but nowadays it's not working good when I connect to internet it shows a notice in notification bar ( Download paused. WiFi network connection failed. As it is updated but this pop up always irritate me.. solve this query as soon as possible.
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Worked fine, now it barely works. My conversation/speech input isn't working anymore. I can't detect languages or translate anything in conversations other than English to the other language. My permissions are enabled. I've cleared cache and data, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, I've even gone into speech input settings and region settings to make sure everything was enabled and nothing is fixing the issue. The text translate still works, but not anything pertaining to conversations.
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Something has gone wrong with the speech recognition in latest update. The system seems to always ignore the last word you say. Eg say "How are you today" and it just prints "How are you" on the screen. I've started saying an extra word each time just so it gets it right! A search of the feedback pages within the app reveal hundreds of people with the same issue but not solution since last November.
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I've been using this app for around 3 years now and it was working great till my phone updated to android 10. Before android 10, the tap to translate feature would only pop up upon copying a text, which was great! Now, there's no way to hide the stupid bubble and use the tap to translate feature at the aame time. This makes the app pretty much unuseable since I don't want the dumb bubble cluttering up my screen. The old way was perfectly fine, why ruin it?
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Ничего не переводит верно.
Половина перевода автоматически удаляется, переводит не верный текст. Из за этого переводчика ввела людей в заблуждение!!! Ужасный переводчик!! -
chinese sensorship?
what happened? you guys supported chinese (traditional), also known as mandarin for years! i’ve used this app to communicate with my family and friends in taiwan and hong kong for ages and it worked flawlessly and now all the sudden this whole language is no longer supported? with absolutely no notice or anything at all... this is ridiculous. -
Infuriating that I have to download the app
I very rarely need to translate something. Typically when I do, it’s Japanese Kanji that I can’t exactly just type out on my keyboard, and because the mobile website cannot recognize handwriting or take pictures, I have to jump through the hoops to download the app, translate the one thing I need, and delete the app again until the next time I gotta translate something 🙄 would really appreciate it if the mobile website would support images or handwriting so that I don’t have to download the app every single time I have to translate one single thing. -
50$!!
Had the translate pro free trial. Before the trial was over the app is trying to take 50$ from my account 2-3 times a day before the trial was even over. When I tried to cancel it make it stop it wouldn’t!!! Never using this again -
This is not good
So I got the app when I was going to Japan it was lagging there was so much bugs -
I do not recommended horrible app not understandable
When I use the camera mode it keeps changing cannot understand therfore, I do not recommend this at all. I think if you learn the language ur translating for a day u can do much better than this translator -
Use to love this app but now I question it
I use this app all the time for translations throughout the years but seeing that ‘demon’ translates to ‘police officer’ is inaccurate and wrong. Now I’m not sure how reliable the translations are any more. Will begin looking for another translation app now. -
Promoting an agenda
Shockingly, this app is as tainted as everything else that Google controls. Don’t believe me? just search for “demon.” -
Wrong translation
When I put the word Demon in there the word Police Officer is translated. This is the worst display of poor monitoring of this system. Was that something that was placed by google? I hope not- did someone hack the system? I hope not. Did it just happen by itself?? This should be taken to the highest court of the law to make google pay reparations to the Law Enforcement Community for having to deal with this. -
Wrong
So when did demon translate as a police officer!?
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Seems like Google haven't done a single translation with this app Cause if they had used it, they would see what's wrong with it. Anyway after 6 months no change, we are forced to see only one line of text when we translating a pasted text, even though we have 3 inches of free space come on Google Get better developers. OK Google LLC you posted a link for us to tell you how to be better, but we are unable to open that link directly. No way anyone will write that link.
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Great Experience with this.. It helps me a lot to improve my English language.. but nowadays it's not working good when I connect to internet it shows a notice in notification bar ( Download paused. WiFi network connection failed. As it is updated but this pop up always irritate me.. solve this query as soon as possible.
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Worked fine, now it barely works. My conversation/speech input isn't working anymore. I can't detect languages or translate anything in conversations other than English to the other language. My permissions are enabled. I've cleared cache and data, uninstalled and reinstalled the app, I've even gone into speech input settings and region settings to make sure everything was enabled and nothing is fixing the issue. The text translate still works, but not anything pertaining to conversations.
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I've been using this app for around 3 years now and it was working great till my phone updated to android 10. Before android 10, the tap to translate feature would only pop up upon copying a text, which was great! Now, there's no way to hide the stupid bubble and use the tap to translate feature at the aame time. This makes the app pretty much unuseable since I don't want the dumb bubble cluttering up my screen. The old way was perfectly fine, why ruin it?
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Instant translation does not work properly after last Android update on Xiaomi mi 8 lite, . There is not pop up icon anymore as it was before when you copy a text. I have to launch translator every time manually to translate smth. Or the icon float permanently what is really annoying. Used to everything was perfect: Icon popped up only when text was copied. When are you gonna fix this problem??
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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. -
Just when I was praising GT for having become so much better over the years, you go and screw around with the bubble. I really liked how it was before, but find this new edition on my new phone so annoying, I will probably change to rererso. Without the bubble the way it was, I don't think GT is the star anymore. Bring back the old way, and I will come back.
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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. -
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!
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I am really dissatisfied that the "tap to translate" function icon is permanently fixed on the screen (or needs to be enabled / disabled with each translation). This is completely irritating and ineffective. The previous way, where the icon appeared and disappeared quickly after translating the desired word, was extremely efficient and well elaborated. I don't know what Google's intentions are, but the company managed to make a terrible app that has always been wonderful.
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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? -
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. -
What the f happened to the pop up translation? That was the easiest and most convenient way to translate for someone who uses this frequently. Maybe for someone trying to translate a single phrase or word once in awhile it's fine, but I actually communicate with people overseas using this. Why would you change it? I just got a new phone and never expected an app to GET WORSE. Is it going back to the original tap to translate pop up??
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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. -
Something has gone wrong with the speech recognition in latest update. The system seems to always ignore the last word you say. Eg say "How are you today" and it just prints "How are you" on the screen. I've started saying an extra word each time just so it gets it right! A search of the feedback pages within the app reveal hundreds of people with the same issue but not solution since last November.
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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. -
.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. -
Disappointed
I had high hopes for this but can see right away it will be useless for my needs. When trying to communicate with someone in real time, the last thing you need is favorites or history, yet that keeps popping up and taking 75% of the screen and you cannot easily get out of it. The most important thing is the swap function so once you translate something you swap it to make sure it translates back correctly so you don’t cause an argument or say something stupid but the swap here doesn’t work properly at all it just swaps language positions for the next person to type rather than swapping the translation itself for checking the accuracy of the translation in case you need to reword what you want to say. You got this right in your browser but not in your app. Disappointing. -
Worthless
This was my go to app for translating back and forth between English and Spanish and Italian. Now it’s almost useless. Most of the time now I keep getting an error message saying google translate was unable to establish a network connection to fulfill my request and to check my network connection. However, my internet connection is fine. It works both on my home WiFi and in my phone’s 4G connection. What’s weird is that it didn’t work while I was on my home WiFi, so I disconnected and used the app successfully on my 4G. Then after several successful translations I got the same message. Earlier I got the error message which went away after uninstalling and reinstalling the app. I’m just done now. Can’t wait to find a translate app that works.
- 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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