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Request: An option to show text in google translate (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think it would be a helpful feature to have the text of a post or comment be brought into Google Translate. If you could click on the … symbol/long press options for a post or comment and had one of the top option be translate which opens the text of the post title or comment in Google Translate, within the app. BlueSky has a feature like this why I find helpful, and I believe Apollo had a feature like this back in the day. It would be handy to have this as a feature to help improve engagement and breakdown communication barriers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is something I’ve wanted to do. I have some ideas. Unfortunately it would just operate per comment, not the entire thread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Thank you for your reply, and that would be more than okay for most people. Per comment is still solid!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Could try to integrate what the Firefox web browser uses for web page translations. Just as an alternative to Google

https://browser.mt/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I hope this takes off. Unfortunately for now, the number of supported languages it rather limited.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I was not aware of this, thank you for sharing! I agree having a non-Google connected option would be better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When i hit the share button under your post text in voyager i can share it to the google translate app and from there i can translate your post.

It opens the whole web view https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33567905 though.