Feature request: an easy to access translation button. So when I see a post in another language I can hit translate so I can read it. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by andrewta@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

I would like this too! If you're on iPhone, you can use the "select text" feature, highlight all the text and then translate it. Definitely would be easier to have a button/menu option

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

Very cool request

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Asked for this before but no official response, as of yet.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 4 points 9 months ago

Not sure how exactly that would work. Do you have any ideas? Is there a free translation API that could be used?

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not as efficient, but you can have Google Assistant translate any text on screen if you pull it up and hit the translate button. Drawback is just that you can't interact with the page while Google Assistant is translating it.

Edit: Android only, just to clarify.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’ve always liked how the Mastodon app, Ice Cubes, does it:

After taping the “translate” button:

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

lol 2 people actually downvoted this. lol

Edit let’s make it three. To those downvoting, why are you against the feature?

[-] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Apps normally have to pay to use translation APIs. There is selfhostable LibreTranslate, I don't know how good it is.

I didn't downvote.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Downvoters already speak 7000 languages?

The most extensive catalog of the world’s languages, generally taken to be as authoritative as any, is that of Ethnologue (published by SIL International), whose detailed classified list as of 2009 included 6,909 distinct languages.