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About Google Translate
• Text translation: Translate between 108 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 (94 languages)
• Photos: Take or import photos for higher quality translations (90 languages)
• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (70 languages)
• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (96 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
• Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real-time (8 languages)
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 (94 languages)
• Photos: Take or import photos for higher quality translations (90 languages)
• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (70 languages)
• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (96 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
• Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real-time (8 languages)
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
Ratings & Reviews
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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 -
Cool google translator app
Dec 4, 2020 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 translatemore -
Mar 22, 2021 I use this quite often as I learn Japanese and Chinese and the ability to use the camera or a photo to translate things is amazing. Obviously you cannot just attempt to pronounce Japanese/Chinese characters so this is huge for me. I also used the camera feature while I was in Switzerland and it works surprisingly well when I used to to translate menus and other small things. One thing I wish is that when saving words or phrases it would be possible to go back to them and filter them by languagemore -
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 -
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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Apr 1, 2021 I used it for years on my Galaxy Note 8 with no problems, but I just upgraded to a new Galaxy S21 Ultra and I don't like how it works. When I copy text the translate button sometimes doesn't appear or it will appear later after I switch apps. When the button does appear it doesn't automatically go away after a few seconds so I have to manually swipe it away which is very annoying. And why does it always having to be there in my notification screen? I have to block it so its not taking up space. EDIT: I just lowered my review more because it seems the responder didn't even read what I wrote and responded with a copy/paste response.more -
Mar 30, 2021 There should be a hold option when I'm using the live🎤 translation...so when I leave, then return to speak more words, it doesnt keep erasing all I had done. This is very frustrating. Is it normal for a Russian word definition to completely change just because its capitalised? That happens often in this app. Also, I should set the timeout not the app, I hate when it cuts me off when I'm speaking.more -
Mar 29, 2021 I used to love this app and use it everyday. I normally translate from Bangla to English, but for some odd reason the translation speech button stopped working. I uninstalled and installed the app again, but now the translation doesn't even work. The text doesn't change to English and the speech doesn't work!!! What is going on???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 -
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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Cool google translator app
Dec 4, 2020 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 translatemore -
Mar 22, 2021 I use this quite often as I learn Japanese and Chinese and the ability to use the camera or a photo to translate things is amazing. Obviously you cannot just attempt to pronounce Japanese/Chinese characters so this is huge for me. I also used the camera feature while I was in Switzerland and it works surprisingly well when I used to to translate menus and other small things. One thing I wish is that when saving words or phrases it would be possible to go back to them and filter them by languagemore -
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 -
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 -
Mar 21, 2021 I desired to communicate with more people from around the world compatently while I learn their language. The app is amazing in that the text to speech can allow you to train yourself on how to pronounce cirtain words albeit with a very butchered accent, but c'est la vie. I find it's interface very user friendly and, there is a copy and paste button at the ready, there are so many more features still to discover, but it is a must have if you dream to understand the world better through language.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 -
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 -
Apr 4, 2021 I use this app on a daily basis and have just updated it as of today April 3rd 2021 I have never had any problems with it until now I usually use the pull-down menu for translating and I hide the floating icon but now every time I use the pull-down menu and go to paste my translation the icon bubble reappears every time even after I asked it to hide itmore -
Mar 25, 2021 Really helpful for communicating with people while I was living in Japan. They could speak directly into the app and I would sorta get what they were saying. I can not blame the app for not understanding dialect and local phrases (Never tell a Japanese girl to make you miso soup unless you intend to get married). I do wish that there were more Native American languages on the app as I teach classes with Indigenous peoples. Other than that, great all around app.more -
Extremely handy, but not perfect...
Aug 6, 2020 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.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 -
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 -
Works decently well, but has some problems
Aug 23, 2019 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.more -
Useful, but be cautious
Jul 24, 2019 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 opinionmore -
Great for
Sep 18, 2019 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.more
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Mar 30, 2021 There should be a hold option when I'm using the live🎤 translation...so when I leave, then return to speak more words, it doesnt keep erasing all I had done. This is very frustrating. Is it normal for a Russian word definition to completely change just because its capitalised? That happens often in this app. Also, I should set the timeout not the app, I hate when it cuts me off when I'm speaking.more -
Mar 26, 2021 This might be good for some languages but for Thai it's inept. It does not translate simple things like hours properly. It does not take the height of the sounds to transcribe what we say (though a must for a tonal language). As for the AI part, transcription of our voice can not improve with time, since we can not tell it when it is right. Update : I did send some explicit remarks (eg สองทุ่ม means 8pm not 2o'clock), 2 years ago, but they haven't changed a thing…more -
Apr 3, 2021 I was using a Samsung Note 8 and the process was the same as outlined in the version for my new Samsung A51 EXCEPT the translate button stays on top of all apps after translation of text and is annoying and clutters view of other app icons! In the previous version the button was enabled but disappeared when the copy of text and translation was done, but would reappear on text copy again. This new version degrades the Google translator app 60%+!more -
Current version default. - don’t like the change
Feb 25, 2018 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.more -
Awful but can be useful
Aug 8, 2018 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.more
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Apr 1, 2021 I used it for years on my Galaxy Note 8 with no problems, but I just upgraded to a new Galaxy S21 Ultra and I don't like how it works. When I copy text the translate button sometimes doesn't appear or it will appear later after I switch apps. When the button does appear it doesn't automatically go away after a few seconds so I have to manually swipe it away which is very annoying. And why does it always having to be there in my notification screen? I have to block it so its not taking up space. EDIT: I just lowered my review more because it seems the responder didn't even read what I wrote and responded with a copy/paste response.more -
Mar 29, 2021 I used to love this app and use it everyday. I normally translate from Bangla to English, but for some odd reason the translation speech button stopped working. I uninstalled and installed the app again, but now the translation doesn't even work. The text doesn't change to English and the speech doesn't work!!! What is going on???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 -
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 -
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
Hi! Google Translate was one of my first applications that I started to use, and for all the years that I've been using it I had never have any problem. It's very accurate and give you different alternatives in ways that nouns, verb, adverb (etcetera) you can work with it plus the pronunciation is really good. For this reasons and many others, I rate this application with five (5) stars, "So far so good "
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What’s Subpar
I have a Galaxy S7 and never had any problem with Google translate for 5 years. Yesterday I bought a Galaxy S21 and Google Translate has a very annoying problem: tap to translate isn't working well. It won't automatically start when I copy some text, then I start it manually from translate settings. After that the bubble won't go away. It remains on top indefinitely. How can I fix that? Edit. The app is up to date and still won't open automatically as it did in my S7.
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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. -
Cool google translator app
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 -
I use this quite often as I learn Japanese and Chinese and the ability to use the camera or a photo to translate things is amazing. Obviously you cannot just attempt to pronounce Japanese/Chinese characters so this is huge for me. I also used the camera feature while I was in Switzerland and it works surprisingly well when I used to to translate menus and other small things. One thing I wish is that when saving words or phrases it would be possible to go back to them and filter them by language
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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. -
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. -
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!). -
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. -
I desired to communicate with more people from around the world compatently while I learn their language. The app is amazing in that the text to speech can allow you to train yourself on how to pronounce cirtain words albeit with a very butchered accent, but c'est la vie. I find it's interface very user friendly and, there is a copy and paste button at the ready, there are so many more features still to discover, but it is a must have if you dream to understand the world better through language.
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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. -
I can't understand the one star reviews, becuase I have bean using this app for some years now, and have not had any problems. On my celular, which is not the most sophisticated phone, and my chromebook, and also on my computer. It works for me, a 74 year old granny. I recomend it, try it, I am sure you're going to like it as much as I do.
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Nice Information
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Great but please work on your offline Translation
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It is very useful
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Recommend
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Good. It helps me translate language for my novel.
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Love it! Could use a smidge tweaking with the complete translations. Ive had to double check them. To be certain my friends would understand what i tried to say.. and its been way off and sometimes insults them.. (so i taught them im very sorry in English) so they know thats not what i meant.
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Good app
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Very good thank you
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Nice one
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Cool google translator app
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 -
I use this quite often as I learn Japanese and Chinese and the ability to use the camera or a photo to translate things is amazing. Obviously you cannot just attempt to pronounce Japanese/Chinese characters so this is huge for me. I also used the camera feature while I was in Switzerland and it works surprisingly well when I used to to translate menus and other small things. One thing I wish is that when saving words or phrases it would be possible to go back to them and filter them by language
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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 desired to communicate with more people from around the world compatently while I learn their language. The app is amazing in that the text to speech can allow you to train yourself on how to pronounce cirtain words albeit with a very butchered accent, but c'est la vie. I find it's interface very user friendly and, there is a copy and paste button at the ready, there are so many more features still to discover, but it is a must have if you dream to understand the world better through language.
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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. -
I can't understand the one star reviews, becuase I have bean using this app for some years now, and have not had any problems. On my celular, which is not the most sophisticated phone, and my chromebook, and also on my computer. It works for me, a 74 year old granny. I recomend it, try it, I am sure you're going to like it as much as I do.
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I love how I'm able to communicate with others in a different language! I once set and had a conversation with someone with just my phone translating for almost an hour! They could not understand English and I could not understand Spanish but my translator made the conversation seem so fluent! It reminds me of the Star Trek communicators with a built-in universal translator.
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This app is great, I like it very much because it can translate in all languages. he helps me a lot in learning a foreign language. I speak Turkish normally but I am trying to learn English. I am also using the Turkish version of this application. I downloaded this to learn english. and I copy and paste this post with this application. If I wrote it correctly, it means it has no problem. 😍❤❣👍 and ı love QUARESMA so much 😘❤
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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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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. -
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. -
I use this app on a daily basis and have just updated it as of today April 3rd 2021 I have never had any problems with it until now I usually use the pull-down menu for translating and I hide the floating icon but now every time I use the pull-down menu and go to paste my translation the icon bubble reappears every time even after I asked it to hide it
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Really helpful for communicating with people while I was living in Japan. They could speak directly into the app and I would sorta get what they were saying. I can not blame the app for not understanding dialect and local phrases (Never tell a Japanese girl to make you miso soup unless you intend to get married). I do wish that there were more Native American languages on the app as I teach classes with Indigenous peoples. Other than that, great all around app.
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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! -
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"
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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. -
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. -
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 -
Same as browser but missing one important feature
I have been using Google translate for years but recently added it on my phone. When I use translate on browser on computer I am able to have the text input for translation be spoken but on the app I am only able to have the English translation be spoken. I understand if you used this feature to translate your native language to a foreign language it would make sense to have pronunciation for the output but if you are trying to pronounce a foreign language it does not work. For example: Input - Spanish: Hola Output - English: Hello (press button for pronunciation) But if I wanted to know how to pronounce “Hola” (perhaps I saw it on a sign and needed to use the word but didn’t know how to pronounce) this would not be useful. Additionally, the app provides no phonetics for input language. I am learning the Cyrillic alphabet and don’t have all the pronunciations/letters completely memorized and without pronunciations or phonetics this is difficult. -
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 used it for years on my Galaxy Note 8 with no problems, but I just upgraded to a new Galaxy S21 Ultra and I don't like how it works. When I copy text the translate button sometimes doesn't appear or it will appear later after I switch apps. When the button does appear it doesn't automatically go away after a few seconds so I have to manually swipe it away which is very annoying. And why does it always having to be there in my notification screen? I have to block it so its not taking up space. EDIT: I just lowered my review more because it seems the responder didn't even read what I wrote and responded with a copy/paste response.
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There should be a hold option when I'm using the live🎤 translation...so when I leave, then return to speak more words, it doesnt keep erasing all I had done. This is very frustrating. Is it normal for a Russian word definition to completely change just because its capitalised? That happens often in this app. Also, I should set the timeout not the app, I hate when it cuts me off when I'm speaking.
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I used to love this app and use it everyday. I normally translate from Bangla to English, but for some odd reason the translation speech button stopped working. I uninstalled and installed the app again, but now the translation doesn't even work. The text doesn't change to English and the speech doesn't work!!! What is going on???
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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. -
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. -
This might be good for some languages but for Thai it's inept. It does not translate simple things like hours properly. It does not take the height of the sounds to transcribe what we say (though a must for a tonal language). As for the AI part, transcription of our voice can not improve with time, since we can not tell it when it is right. Update : I did send some explicit remarks (eg สองทุ่ม means 8pm not 2o'clock), 2 years ago, but they haven't changed a thing…
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This app crashed so bad, it wouldn't reinstall after uninstalling. What's up people? Well, it took ONLY 4 HOURS FOR GOOGLE TO WORK! I'd like to know what happened? Well, today, it started working great again. No refusal to open 6 or 7 times each time. It's translations of Persian to English, so I was told, is not that good. I haven't had any trouble with most languages. Croatian works, haven't had any problems with Hebrew, Portuguese, it's been an awesome tool. It still can get better.
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I have never left review on an app before but i want someone to read it because this app STOPS recording every time a speaker takes a pause! Humans pause while speaking! This does not mean that they are done talking! I use Google translate on my phone, but when the person speaking takes a breath, the app stops translating? What is even the point of that? Why include an automatic stop? Would it really hurt anyone if it kept translating until someone presses a stop button to stop? I mean Jesus.
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Do a fix already that you application time to time lags and crushes when I open it/start typing something/tap a sign “change languge” and all other actions! This bug is take place more that ONE YEAR! The same error on 3 android devices Galaxy Note 10 plus, Tab s6, galaxy s9. Android of the 9th version. I have the latest version of ur program. This bug has taken place in each version within all releases of last year.
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So bad
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How does the offline translation nor work ?
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Such a good app for translation
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Sometimes not right translation
Sometimes when i am learning japanese, i wanted to try out using this to learn but then i tested out it puting in a japanese word that I DO know but it got it completely wrong -
No Tap to Translate on the IPhone version
One can’t tap and translate from another app, I hate that I’ve to copy and return back to the app and paste just to translate, you guys should do better, it’s annoying please else I would throw it out of my phone -
THE TRANSLATIONS ARE NOT ACCURATE!!!
Okay so I was trying to translate my homework because I left my notes at school. I downloaded the app and started to fill out the google form I had for my school work. Once I turn it in, I get a 12/20!!! I thought this app was supposed to HELP!! not make me FAIL!!! Now I can’t even re-do the form. I’m gonna get a bad grade and idk what to do!! -
Great features but terrible follow through
It’s great to have the features to listen to speech however it barely works. You will press the listen button and play the audio and it will listen to and translate about two words before stopping. The camera feature also is incredibly unreliable, and it is hard for a language like Arabic that reads the opposite way of English and the camera function just jumbles up all the words. The translation is great but the app itself needs a LOT of improvements. A .5 second pause between sentences does not mean the audio is finished!!!!!! -
Doesn’t work
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Doesn’t work at all!!
I scanned some Chinese text and this app doesn’t work. Wish I could give negative stars -
Huh?
I can’t believe someone actually said this was “the worlds most advanced language software company”! Whoever said it was? It never was. That’s why it doesn’t work. Try other apps. I like iTranslate. This app might get you punched in the face if you say the wrong translation. It’s just ridiculous!
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There should be a hold option when I'm using the live🎤 translation...so when I leave, then return to speak more words, it doesnt keep erasing all I had done. This is very frustrating. Is it normal for a Russian word definition to completely change just because its capitalised? That happens often in this app. Also, I should set the timeout not the app, I hate when it cuts me off when I'm speaking.
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This might be good for some languages but for Thai it's inept. It does not translate simple things like hours properly. It does not take the height of the sounds to transcribe what we say (though a must for a tonal language). As for the AI part, transcription of our voice can not improve with time, since we can not tell it when it is right. Update : I did send some explicit remarks (eg สองทุ่ม means 8pm not 2o'clock), 2 years ago, but they haven't changed a thing…
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I was using a Samsung Note 8 and the process was the same as outlined in the version for my new Samsung A51 EXCEPT the translate button stays on top of all apps after translation of text and is annoying and clutters view of other app icons! In the previous version the button was enabled but disappeared when the copy of text and translation was done, but would reappear on text copy again. This new version degrades the Google translator app 60%+!
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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. -
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.) -
Translates text fine, but voice translation is 0% effective
If you want to type text in, this works pretty well (although I only tried a few simple test words). The handwriting feature also seems to work well, although I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just type instead. However, the voice and conversation features haven’t worked for even a single word yet. That was the only reason I downloaded the app. I used it with different tv shows, and maybe it’s because it’s not actual live speech, but I would think it should be able to pick up at least some of the words. I tried many shows and a few different languages, and it didn’t grab even a word correctly. -
Used to work better
Having problems with certain functions with this app especially after updating IOS to 12 when it became available. Clear Text doesn't work most of the time for me, I am using Voice Over because I'm blind, and 'm noticing that the translations, especially in Japanese are not even close to being natural sounding. Luckily I know enough Japanese to tell the difference but it's pretty embarrassing when you copy the translation when chatting with a native Japanese speaker and they ask why you said a certain sentence like that. Overall, it's a great tool but I have found myself using MS Translator way more these days. -
Free version is frustrating
I’ve had this app for a number of years. The older version I had was much more free user friendly. This version constantly asks me to rate or upgrade to the paid version while trying to translate. If you are trying to have an active conversation with a foreign person, constantly having to click off of the “upgrade” tab is obnoxious. Not to mention it also deletes my talk to text after every voice translation when the “upgrade” option pops up. This app, although it has many pop ups, is still better than iTranslate free version in my opinion though...p
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I used it for years on my Galaxy Note 8 with no problems, but I just upgraded to a new Galaxy S21 Ultra and I don't like how it works. When I copy text the translate button sometimes doesn't appear or it will appear later after I switch apps. When the button does appear it doesn't automatically go away after a few seconds so I have to manually swipe it away which is very annoying. And why does it always having to be there in my notification screen? I have to block it so its not taking up space. EDIT: I just lowered my review more because it seems the responder didn't even read what I wrote and responded with a copy/paste response.
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I used to love this app and use it everyday. I normally translate from Bangla to English, but for some odd reason the translation speech button stopped working. I uninstalled and installed the app again, but now the translation doesn't even work. The text doesn't change to English and the speech doesn't work!!! What is going on???
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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. -
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. -
This app crashed so bad, it wouldn't reinstall after uninstalling. What's up people? Well, it took ONLY 4 HOURS FOR GOOGLE TO WORK! I'd like to know what happened? Well, today, it started working great again. No refusal to open 6 or 7 times each time. It's translations of Persian to English, so I was told, is not that good. I haven't had any trouble with most languages. Croatian works, haven't had any problems with Hebrew, Portuguese, it's been an awesome tool. It still can get better.
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I have never left review on an app before but i want someone to read it because this app STOPS recording every time a speaker takes a pause! Humans pause while speaking! This does not mean that they are done talking! I use Google translate on my phone, but when the person speaking takes a breath, the app stops translating? What is even the point of that? Why include an automatic stop? Would it really hurt anyone if it kept translating until someone presses a stop button to stop? I mean Jesus.
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Do a fix already that you application time to time lags and crushes when I open it/start typing something/tap a sign “change languge” and all other actions! This bug is take place more that ONE YEAR! The same error on 3 android devices Galaxy Note 10 plus, Tab s6, galaxy s9. Android of the 9th version. I have the latest version of ur program. This bug has taken place in each version within all releases of last year.
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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: I say withstood and Google translate understands this: with stud, 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... How come this app never gets better?
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Oral french is rotten. It doesn't use the context of the sentence to provide a good translation, it cannot make the difference between "compter" et "ça compte" ("to count" and "it matters"), it stops listening so quickly you don't have time to actually finish your sentence, when it just don't understand a damn thing you say... Yet another Google app that was cool once but start being pointless.
- 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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