Google Translate

The translation features are great, but it would be so much better if the app let me search & filter phrases I've saved by language. E.G. when in Italy I want to only view my saved Italian phrases. Also the sort by Time feature doesn't work, maybe it ignores date, but it doesn't show the most recently saved phrases in any order.

Works decently, but the interface is overlesimplistic without being easier to use anything but the sheer basic function. The reliance on other apps is infuriating, and an inability to translate images without opening the camera is just intrusively bad. Aside from that it's not bad. Not good, but whatever.

It use to be much better in the older versions, (1) no more back ground translate, in the old version it can continue to translate when you minimise the app. Now it just stop. (2) the scan txt option is so much worse then the old version. Sometimes it can't even scan other languages like Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
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Hi Daisuke. We'd like our users to have the best possible experience with Google Translate app. The product team is constantly working to improve the Translate experience across all devices, We'll share your feedback with them. Thanks.

Regular translations work well but image translations have become useless for me. Foreign characters (Asian, cyrillic, etc) get misinterpreted unless it's perfect typeface, and no (easily accessible) way to select individual text to help keep context clear. Similarly, used to be able to use audio but I don't think it accepts weird accents that easily. But the main translator is good if you can copy/paste.
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Hi Tommie. We're sorry to hear about your experience. Could you please describe the issue you're experiencing in the Google Translate Help Community so we can investigate further: https://goo.gle/2tkDc6j? Thanks.

It used to be much better. now I can't find the history of my translations. Previously, immediately after the translation, you could immediately see the transcription. Now you need to translate, go out and only then look, and then not always. Although earlier there was a transcription in 2 languages. And even when you open the history department, the list starts from the bottom and this is not at all convenient
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Hi there. We'd like our users to have the best possible experience with Google Translate app. The product team is constantly working to improve the Translate experience across all devices. We'll share your feedback with them. Thanks.

The integration with lens is nice but it would be better if we have option to manually select texts and orientation. The lens works perfectly on well placed texts. But on more cluttered texts, especially japanese texts, it just become unusable. All this time, i select text manually part by part and it actually makes japanese translation more comprehensible than when it translated the whole page.
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Hi there. Thanks for the suggestion. We're always looking for ways to make the app more useful and your feedback is super helpful. We'll pass this along to our product team.

Last update is a huge step backward. On the old version, to translate from a picture, you used to simply browse your phone folders for the specific picture you wanted to translate. Now instead, you get a single list with all the pictures and images on your phone.. Now, its not so bad if you only have a dozen files on your phone, but I got more than 1000 pictures in a dozen different folders. Something that used to be easy and take me 30 secs to do, now takes a couple of frustrating minutes.
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Hi there. We'd like our users to have the best possible experience with Google Translate app. The product team is constantly working to improve the Translate experience across all devices, We'll share your feedback with them. Thanks.

For an app that does all languages? It does a half decent job. But if you need reliable translation in a single language? You're better off downloading a translation app made specifically for the language you need. For example, it's alright for a passing tourist in Japan, but it seriously sucks for trying to study Japanese or translate conversations in real time. Half the time I understand the Japanese better than the app does! & I'm barely an intermediate student in Japanese!

I need to thank the developers for the fast response. Being in airplane mode fixes the issue I had with the offline translation when using the camera. I assume this appears if you have access to the internet, but not to google services (which can happen if you are traveling to a country with such a restriction). In that case, having to turn on/off airplane mode each time you want to translate something, may be frustrating. The previous version did not have this complication.
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Hi Nikolaos. Let’s enable “Airplane Mode” from phone Settings to be completely offline & try again. If that doesn’t help, ensure that the correct languages are selected on the home screen. If they are, delete the languages using the Trash can icon - reconnect to WiFi or change your Data Usage settings & download the languages again. Thanks.

It was one of my favourite and most used apps... until it stopped translating images, unless I update to the latest version of the Google app. Dear Google, some of us don't have enough space on our phones for a different app for each and every thing. I use Chrome for Google searching and I don't intend to change it. It does the job just fine. I also don't appreciate being forced to use the Google app by other Google products. I will gladly put 4 or 5 stars, should you fix this issue.
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Hi Tania, thank you for sharing your experience. That's correct, the Translate camera is now powered by Google Lens which is part of the Google app. Please try out and let us know what you think!

Wow, google, who needed a promotion and came with an idea to mess up a perfectly working app? Ever since the update, the translations are bad, you can not take a normal picture and select the text (it just blurs with the rest of the surrounding text) and you can't do offline translations anymore. The worst thing is when you go back and uninstall the update, after some short time of normal work it goes back to "in order to use camera feature, you need to update to the newest version)...
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Hi there. We'd like our users to have the best possible experience with Google Translate app. The product team is constantly working to improve the Translate experience across all devices, We'll share your feedback with them. Thanks.

Hate the change previous version before update was better. Being able to use the camera to translate signs. The best was the transcribe I could watch a movie in Spanish and it would text what they where saying. That option is no longer there. Doesn't pick up conversation unless very close. It doesn't flow like it did before the horrible update. Leave things alone when good or give the option to keep the old look
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Hi there. We'd like our users to have the best possible experience with Google Translate app. The product team is constantly working to improve the Translate experience across all devices. We'll share your feedback with them. Thanks.

I've relied on this for years to help with language learning but two things have always bugged me about the camera mode: by default the original text is covered up by the translation (why can't we set our own default?) and it's quite difficult to select text that's bigger than a word but smaller than the whole page - and the latter is even harder now that Translate outsources the camera to Lens, where half the screen is covered with buttons and pop-up dialogs.
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Hi James. We're sorry to hear about your experience. Please try describing your issue in detail in the Translate forum: https://goo.gl/xgcvMW or send us a feedback report by accessing Help&Feedback from the main navigation Menu. Thanks!

The new interface is clunky and hard to use. I tried to deal but it's impossible to see your translation and original text side by side or to only translate portion or single word of something. The translation floats over what you're looking at, completely blocking it. Lens is a mediocre solution. Scan function could have used improvements, but this is the wrong direction. It's also a pain to find the handwriting tool, now. It used to be front and center where it was needed. Sad.
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Hi Katie. We'd like our users to have the best possible experience with Google Translate app. The product team is constantly working to improve the Translate experience across all devices, We'll share your feedback with them. Thanks.

This app has provided a lot of help in my studies for about 3 years! The only problems I've had were with this new UI change. It's easy to go to the history, change mode, etc., but it's a bit of a struggle to get to the handwriting input if I use the split-screen mode. The only way I can get it is by opening the keyboard and immediately hitting the button up top. It's an irritating toss-up as to if it works. I would just like an extra button to go straight into HWI, please.
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Hi Joshua. We'd like our users to have the best possible experience with Google Translate app. The product team is constantly working to improve the Translate experience across all devices, We'll share your feedback with them. Thanks.

This application needs a few adjustments to be a lot better, in my opinion. Translations being more accurate, more languages/more of them available offline, having more voice types where you can change the accents and gender, and a dark mode. It would also be great if the voices were fixed to be more understandable, but some languages do not have voice output whatsoever. One language which I can say does not support voice output is Zulu, which is also a language which cannot be used offline.

The former UI was much better. The interface should be simple and static. The user enters text, chooses a language - done. But you had to show yourself and make a footprint, didn't you? You added text fields which don't work right, you can't easily edit the text entered. The interface completely changes when switching languages. The double headed arrow to change the direction of the translation is missing. I am forced to decrypt your thinking every time I use the app. Annoying
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Hi John. Let's try the troubleshooting steps in this guide: https://goo.gle/2rJSqBE. If the issue still persists, please create a post in the Google Translate Help Community to get help from our community of experts: goo.gle/2tkDc6j. Thanks.

Disappointed, that's really all I can say. The character limit on the app is much lowere than the Google translate website so its a waste of time to try and translate large sections. I would have been happy to use it as the translation appears to be quality, but if I have to break up things into four sections its simply a waste of my time when I can use the website or another translation app that doesn't have that problem. And Google's response is missing the point. Text limit doesn't work.
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Hi Robert. You can translate up to 5,000 characters. To translate longer pieces of text, cut and paste the text in blocks, or upload an entire document. For more instructions visit our help center: https://goo.gle/3FVzRhp. Thank you.

Update 9/2022.. the user interface really stinks compared to how it was a year or two ago. Also, the most negative thing about this app is the off-line mode isnt available unless a flag is generated by the OS being in 'Airplane mode'. It will tell you it can't translate because of a lack of a connection, but the instant you put it in the airplane mode, it works. How about triggering the off-line mode instead of the stupid message?? added 12/16.... STOP changing the text I typed in !!!!
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Hi Phil. We're sorry to hear about your experience. Could you please describe the issue you're experiencing in the Google Translate Help Community so we can investigate further: https://goo.gle/2tkDc6j? Thanks.

Conversation mode is broken. When I want to speak again (before the other person has spoken), it does not work. I keep pressing English, but the app will not go into listening mode. This is also true for the other person speaking in Spanish. This is very frustrating, especially because the app stops listening if I just pause briefly to collect my thoughts.