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Google Translate an image, not on your phone
Not Google, but similar.
Yandex Translate has image upload using desktop web browsers.
https://translate.yandex.com/ocr
I use this in a Flotato browser which enables me to quickly translate screen ...
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Google Translate an image, not on your phone
The purely Google approach I use is:
Upload the image to your Google Drive
Right click image and choose Open with > Google Docs
A new document will be created containing the image and extracted ...
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Are there any shortcut keys for Google Translate web interface?
Google Translate now has a Ctrl + Shift + S hotkey for swapping languages:
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Keyboard shortcut for Google Translate's 'Swap languages' button
You can easily swap languages using:
Ctrl+Shift+S - Windows
Cmd ⌘+Shift+S - MacOS
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What does the Google Translate shield icon mean?
It is not "protection" but validation. Google Translate allows users to participate in kind off validation program which is able to improve the complexity of translation AI algorithm. This translation ...
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Set default languages for Google Translate
you can force it at URL level like this:
SPA > ENG https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#es/en/
ENG > SPA https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#en/es/
(I have it saved as a bookmark so I can load it ...
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Is there a way to get Google translate to give you both the du/Sie and tu/vous forms in German/French?
Here is my trick. Add words "Sir" or "Lady" to force formal.
eg.
"You" --> "You lady" or "You Sir"
Informal
"You are the coolest guy."
"Du bist der coolste Typ." in German
"Eres el chico más ...
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How can I use ARRAYFORMULA (or something similar) with GOOGLETRANSLATE?
After analysis, I found kind of compact solution. a1:a, "en", "ko" are options
it doesn't need ARRAYFORMULA:
=TransPose(Split(GoogleTranslate(Join(". ",A1:A), "en&...
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How can I use ARRAYFORMULA (or something similar) with GOOGLETRANSLATE?
ARRAYFORMULA does not support GOOGLETRANSLATE. The best you can have is to pre-program the array like this:
={GOOGLETRANSLATE(B20, "en", "de");
GOOGLETRANSLATE(B21, "en", "de");
GOOGLETRANSLATE(...
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Google Translate an image, not on your phone
First, change your Google Drive setting, if necessary (maybe back again afterwards), to check Convert uploaded files to Google Docs editor format (see).
Upload your image file to Google Drive, open ...
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Are there any shortcut keys for Google Translate web interface?
I use this trick (in Google Chrome):
Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines,
in the Other search engines section click Add:
For the Search engine field enter a name of your choice.
For the Keyword ...
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Translating a Sheets document in Google Drive
You can use DocTranslator. It keeps the document layout, and translates your document in seconds.
Apparently it uses the Google Translate API as well, so I suppose that would achieve what you are ...
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How to translate images with Google Translate in bulk?
It's not possible via https://translate.google.com/. Furthermore, the Cloud Translation API doesn't seem to take images as input. However you could try to stich images together into 1 image:
How can ...
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Is there a way to get Google translate to give you both the du/Sie and tu/vous forms in German/French?
This worked for me: I used thou and thy, the old English familiar words for you, and it translated to tu in French, and if there were multiple you's in the sentence, I only did it with the first you, ...
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Automatically change target language
If you're wanting to switch quickly from Detect→EN to EN→HU, that's similar to what I often do with Dutch and French. I also hate having to open the dropdown and find the language every time, so I've ...
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Prohibit the translation of pieces of text in Google Translate
The "notranslate" trick does not seem to work anymore. What I came up with was such workaround:
In the source text replace all occurrences of the phrase you want to preserve with some big ...
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Turn off Google Translate slow down text-to-speech on second listen
You can use this javascript code to turn it off:
const orig_setAttribute = HTMLElement.prototype.setAttribute;
Audio.prototype.setAttribute = function(key, value) {
if (key === 'src') {
...
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Why Google Translate translate back not same as the first time I translate?
Because that's not how languages work. Languages rarely have a one-to-one relationship to a word or phrase. We just get "close enough", based on context, to convey the same idea. Further, other ...
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How to translate images with Google Translate in bulk?
I have successfully done this using this Python code:
import os
from google.cloud import translate_v2 as translate
def upload_and_translate(input_dir, output_dir, target_language):
""&...
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One-click solution to disable auto-translation in Chrome
Translations can be partially or completely disabled directly in the browser settings. Go to chrome://settings/ and under Languages you are able to manage your preferences:
Also, you can try a ...
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Does Google Translate's free (non-API) service use neural nets?
Yes, it does. Google Translate (web service) is based on free API and the "only" difference between free and paid API is a limit of characters per input.
https://cloud.google.com/translate/#features
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Why doesn't Google Translate by Speech function on Chrome?
I've had the same issue! Microphone didn't work on google translate site and on the main google page clicking on mic have been produced No Internet connection output. How I solved it: I downloaded the ...
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Keyboard shortcut for Google Translate's 'Swap languages' button
It looks to me that Google Translate doesn't have keyboard shortcuts, there isn't nothing on the UI and on the official help.
There are a couple of Chrome extensions that claims to add shortcuts to ...
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Google Translate an image, not on your phone
The Translatium desktop app allows image upload.
You may be lucky to find a download of this app, because it was discontinued. Why? The unofficial API it uses can sometimes fail. My solution is to ...
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Automatically change target language
Another way to speed-up translation is to use Chrome (if use this family of browsers) search keywords, like typing in address bar:
2hu Tab/Space some phrase in any language Enter
Where 2hu may be ...
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Change the speed of Google Translate speech
Create a new Userscript using TamperMonkey.
Remove all existing code from the script, then add the following:
Gv.prototype.play = function() {
if (this.b != this.K || this.g != this.H || this.c !...
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Change the speed of Google Translate speech
You can change the speed of HTML5 video/audio with
document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = < speed >;
with speed ranging from 0.5 to 2
to get the proper URL where the video is, check ...
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Prohibit the translation of pieces of text in Google Translate
The question is about using the Text mode of Google Translate. It asks how to prevent Google Translate from translating a part of the text on the left side box.
Unfortunately, the Text mode has no ...
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Set default languages for Google Translate
In Firefox I go to Preferences under Menu/Add ons/Extensions and there are default From/To languages. Set these to auto/en or auto/es. I don't think you can give it a default target when translating ...
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How can I export my history in Google Translation?
Once you translate a word or group of words click the star (on the left or right side) to save it, then you can export the word/words that you saved as Excel sheet. Click on the saved button; it is a ...
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