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May 22, 2019

Translate in Microsoft Edge

The Microsoft Translator extension is no longer needed! To help bring all the web to you, we are adding the ability to translate web pages to the preview channels of Microsoft Edge. Translation is now working on Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS.

Automatic detection

Microsoft Edge can automatically detect when a web page is not in one of your preferred languages. When we do, we will pop up a dialog box, right under the address bar, and ask you if you would like us to translate the page into a language you are more comfortable with. We get your preferred languages from the list of languages in the browser setting, Settings ->Languages (edge://settings/languages). You can update the list of languages at any time.

Translate dialog appears when Microsoft Edge detects that language in not in the users preferred list

We have also included an option to auto-translate all pages for specified languages. You can always invoke translation manually from the context menu (right click) or by clicking on the translate icon on the address bar as shown below.

Open translate from the context

Open translate from the address bar

Icon State Change:

Whenever translation occurs, we let you know by changing the color of the Translate icon. Before translation, the icon will be black, and after we translate the web page, . There is an Icon animation for intermediate stage while the document is translating.

Icon state: before translation Icon state: after translation

Translation experience in Immersive Reader:

Translation is now available in the Immersive Reader view of Microsoft Edge. When you are reading an article in the Immersive Reader and want to translate either part or all of the article into another language, open the Reading preferences menu and select the language you want to translate into from the Translate drop down menu. You can then use the Translate entire page slider to decide between translating a selection or the entire page.

Translation experience on iOS and Android:

The behavior is slightly different on mobile. When you visit a web page which is in a language different from your phone’s language, Microsoft Edge offers to translate the page using a flyout that appears at the bottom of webpage. You can get Microsoft Edge browser for iOS and Android in the appropriate store.


Translation on Microsoft Edge for iOS		Translation on Microsoft Edge for Android

What languages does translation work on?

Translation is currently supported on 54 now 64 languages, which cover the vast majority of webpages on internet today

List of languages supported
Afrikaans	Dutch	Hindi	Malagasy	Punjabi	Tamil
Arabic	English	Hungarian	Malay	Romanian	Telugu
Bangla	Estonian	Icelandic	Malayalam	Russian	Thai
Bosnian (Latin)	Filipino	Indonesian	Maltese	Samoan	Tongan
Bulgarian	Finnish	Irish	Maori	Serbian (Cyrillic)	Turkish
Catalan	French	Italian	Marathi	Serbian (Latin)	Ukrainian
Chinese Simplified	German	Japanese	Norwegian	Slovak	Urdu
Chinese Traditional	Greek	Kannada	Persian	Slovenian	Vietnamese
Croatian	Gujararti	Korean	Polish	Spanish	Welsh
Czech	Haitian Creole	Latvian	Portuguese (Brazil)	Swahili
Danish	Hebrew	Lithuanian	Portuguese (Portugal)	Swedish

What do you think?

We would love to hear from you. What did you like about the experience and what you didn’t? What more would you like us to build?

Thank you for trying out the new Microsoft Edge and leave your comments below!

Peter_Dinh
Brass Contributor
May 22, 2019
Can we have an option to do the translation? It is useful for some folks who are multi lingual, sometimes I want to translate, sometimes I do not want to translate, even my default language is English.
To clarify, the option is something like "Never translate German to English" for example.
- Anoop_Gopikumar
  Microsoft
  May 23, 2019
  Peter_Dinh Thanks for your feedback. We are working on this and will be bringing this option within the flyout.
- AlexanderLilov
  Copper Contributor
  May 27, 2019
  Sorry for the stupid question, but how to install Microsoft translator?
  - abdurehim02
    Copper Contributor
    May 27, 2019
    Hello Alexander. don't be sorry for asking questions. All you have to do is:
    1. Open Microsoft store
    2. from top of the Microsoft store chose Edge extensions section.
    3. After that you can find translator for Microsoft edge. or
    after opening store just type translator for Microsoft edge in the search.
    4. After downloading it it will automatically launch itself.
    after this you can enjoy translator for Microsoft edge AlexanderLilov
RonDamon
Brass Contributor
May 23, 2019
Elliot Kirk Here it doesn't work. The context menu doesn't show the option as well. I tested with multiple languages and pages. Maybe it's working only in Canary? I'm on Dev.
- Anoop_Gopikumar
  Microsoft
  May 24, 2019
  RonDamon , we just scaled this up. Please let us know, in case the issue persists. You can also click on the smiley icon on the top-right corner to post your feedback
BrianMwai
Copper Contributor
May 23, 2019
Elliot Kirk maybe you can add an option where the browser can read the word out loud 🔊 either the highlighted word that needs to be translated or the translated word.
- amitkun
  Microsoft
  May 24, 2019
  Thanks for selfhosting BrianMwai - that's a nice suggestion. Please do use the smiley button to share these ideas.
Dennis5mile
Silver Contributor
May 23, 2019
Ok, Huston we have a problem..... Ok, so far there is no option to translate in Edge Dev, but there is in Edge Can. However, it does not work as far as I can see if it is "Not" the whole page that needs translating. Oh and this is all supposedly being translated to English....

This first pic shows that the page was translated according to the icon that is now blue, however as you can see, not the whole page was translated.

Elliot Kirk

Next is right clicking to get the context menu up and trying to select translate from there, which did Not work..

Next is highlighting the text to be translated, which also did not work as there is "NO" translation option to select in the menu..

Well, this is it so far as you can see for me, this is "NOT" working well..

my 20cents worth
Dennis5mile
- amitkun
  Microsoft
  May 24, 2019
  Hey, Dennis5mile thanks for self-hosting and sharing feedback. There was an intermittent bug in translate and has now been resolved. Can you please try on the latest Canary builds!
  
  Also, support for select and translate a smaller portion of the page has not been added yet.
  - Dennis5mile
    Silver Contributor
    May 24, 2019
    
    amitkun wrote:
    Hey, Dennis5mile thanks for self-hosting and sharing feedback. There was an intermittent bug in translate and has now been resolved. Can you please try on the latest Canary builds!
    
    Also, support for select and translate a smaller portion of the page has not been added yet.
    Your welcome, and thanks for the heads up about translating selected text and smaller portions of a page being translated..amitkun
    
    Dennis5mile
- amitkun
  Microsoft
  May 24, 2019
  Dennis5mile -
  
  Thanks for self-hosting and sharing feedback. There was an intermittent bug in translate and has now been resolved. Can you please try on the latest Canary builds!
  
  Also, support for select and translate a smaller portion of the page has not been added yet.
- Johnsonsaji01
  Copper Contributor
  Jul 07, 2020
  Dennis5mile
  
  I think this is because the language is not available or it is not supported in you region, I am not sure
xL3aMS1x
Steel Contributor
May 23, 2019
Hello Elliot Kirk ,I'm having is visual problem in the translator, the text with the dark theme is almost invisible to the view.

Thanks.
- edward2-_1880
  Iron Contributor
  May 23, 2019
  xL3aMS1x
  How much of the page needs to be in another language to translate the whole page?
- Anoop_Gopikumar
  Microsoft
  May 23, 2019
  The design for dark mode is not great at the moment. We would be updating this shortly! Thanks for sharing the feedback
- maisondasilva
  MVP
  Jun 02, 2019
  xL3aMS1x Same here in mode dark
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May 23, 2019
Elliot Kirk Very nice this is looking good, also the little things count such as, changing the colour of the translation icon before and after. ;)
- Drew1903
  Silver Contributor
  May 29, 2019
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  It has to be there, never mind what colour it is.
  
  Anyway, I want to point out something. Not only is translation with its icon show with Edge for pages, BUT, there is another ability in Edge that, so far, we are not seeing in Edge C. That is its ability to translate highlighted pieces of text in a Rt Clk menu, Translate text into English. This, also, needs to exist or be kept in Edge C. See the snip below of Edge.
  
  Cheers,
  Drew
  - Deleted
    May 29, 2019
    Drew1903
    I have no idea what you mean, i suggested that it could be a different colour.
JKrieg
Copper Contributor
May 24, 2019
Elliot Kirk Thanks a lot! Great feature. I would appreciate if you add the option to translate only a few words or a sentence (or whatever the user will select on a page).
- zoeff50
  Copper Contributor
  May 24, 2019
  That would be very useful. I used the Google Translate extension, which has this option.
- Drew1903
  Silver Contributor
  Jun 03, 2019
  JKrieg
  
  Hi,
  
  This, already, exists as part of Edge. It is done with Add notes. And it is one of the list of items most of us consider "Must haves" & "Keepers". We are confident the Edge team is hearing our loud, collective voice & wants. Hopefully, this & more will show up in due course in Edge C. Though, can't be soon enough 😉
  
  In the meantime...
  
  This can sort of be done with Snip & Sketch which, also, offers sharing, same as Add notes. Of course, using S&S is a tad more involved than having Add notes. Add notes is such a nice Feature❗
  
  Cheers,
An_old_bloke
Copper Contributor
May 24, 2019
Elliot Kirk Translate is not working/missing here as well. I've tried a couple of different languages. No button in the address bar and no right-click context menu item.

Ken
- An_old_bloke
  Copper Contributor
  May 24, 2019
  An_old_bloke Translate is now appearing on some pages, but not others. Will translate one Czech site but not another.
  
  Ken
  - Anoop_Gopikumar
    Microsoft
    May 24, 2019
    An_old_bloke , is it possible to share the site where it did not trigger translate flyout?
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May 31, 2019
Elliot Kirk
Ich nutze den Translator schon länger. Hatte ihn über edge://flags/ aktiviert. Ich hatte mal ein Post in einem englischen mit Deepl von Deutsch ins Englische übersetzt. Anschließend hatte ich den Text mit dem Google Translator und dann mit dem Edge Translator wieder ins Deutsche. Während der Google Translator einen ganz anderen Text wiedergab, war es mit dem Edge Translator besser. Ich nutze ihn, weil mein Englisch sehr schlecht ist. Mit einen Alter von 61 Jahren lohnt es sich für mich nicht mehr Englisch zu lernen.
Roman_L
Copper Contributor
Apr 12, 2021
Hi, Elliot Kirk! Thank you for your work! I'm not sure if someone suggested this feature, but here's the thing. I often find current translation in Edge not very convinient as when you change the word in the text it sticks to only one meaning which often is not accurate. Yandex browser uses an option that allows you to get automatic translation of selected text in context menu. This translation is connected to Yandex translator and presents different meanings which makes translation fast and effective when you want to look up for a certain word while understanding other words in a sentence. Maybe it is possible to make such context translation connected with Google Translator?