Translate text

Translate is the page most people live in: a box for the source, a box for the result, and a status line between them that says what is happening. There is one Translate; there is no "quick" version and no "pro" version that translates better. Speed adapts to your device, quality does not.

Languages

Pick the source language or leave it on Detect language, which reads the text and names the language it found beside the result. Pick the target from the list; the list is the complete set the pack covers, on every platform, in every direction. The swap button exchanges the two languages.

Running it

Press Translate or Ctrl+Enter. Sentences appear as they finish, in order. The status line reports each step — "Translating sentence 2 of 5", "Checking", "Done · 5 sentences · 9s" — with a time estimate measured from this run, not a guess. Stop interrupts the sentence in flight and keeps the finished ones.

Long texts are fine. The tool splits on sentence boundaries, translates each with its neighbours in view, and rejoins the paragraph. Line breaks and blank lines are kept where you put them.

The notes under a sentence

Traxlate checks its own work with deterministic guards and says what they found rather than hiding it:

• A lost negation, a changed number, a missing name. The sentence is flagged with what is missing so you can decide whether to reword the source.
• A term that differs from your glossary. The glossary term is enforced when it fits; when it cannot be fitted the note says so.
• A switch between formal and informal address in a language that marks it. The odd sentence out is flagged, and where an already-drafted alternative in the right register exists, it is used.
• A repeated or padded tail. Removed before you see it; if a sentence still looks longer than its source, the note says why.

None of these send anything anywhere. They run on the sentence in front of you.

Voice

The microphone button dictates into the box. It uses your browser's or system's speech recognition, which is theirs, not ours: on most browsers that means audio is processed by the browser vendor. Where an on-device voice model is offered in Settings, installing it keeps dictation local too. The speaker button reads a result aloud with the system voice.

Keyboard

• Ctrl+Enter — translate
• Ctrl+K — the command bar (every page and action, by name)

What it will not do

It does not translate a language that is not in the list. It does not send a hard sentence to a server; a slow device is slow, and the status line names it.