• naught@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    2 years 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

  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

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

  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

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

    After taping the “translate” button:

  • andrewta@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    611·
    2 years 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.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 years 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.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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.