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c/voyagerapp · by andrewta@lemmy.world · 2y

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.

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Varyk@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y

Very cool request

naught@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y

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

JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
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dandroid@dandroid.app · 4 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y
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Zachariah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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

After taping the “translate” button:

andrewta@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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 pts · 2y

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 · 3 pts · 2y

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.