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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
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 no...
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debsuvra
Copper Contributor
May 26, 2019
I can also confirm that automatic translation works sporadically on Edge Dev v76.0.167.1. It's hit or miss in most situations and I'm yet to pinpoint what triggers the automatic translation prompt.
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Anoop_Gopikumar
Former Employee
May 28, 2019

debsuvra , It might have happened because the language that 'Translate' feature detects has been marked by you for auto-translate while some other languages haven't been set for auto-translate. In case of web pages which has content in multiple languages, preference of the dominant language that we detect would determine the behavior. Please do confirm if this is not the case.

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    debsuvra
    Copper Contributor
    May 28, 2019

    Anoop_Gopikumar Hi, I can confirm that is not the case as I haven't marked any languages for auto-translate yet.

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      Anoop_Gopikumar
      Former Employee
      May 31, 2019
      Thanks for sharing all the feedback! One of the top feedback from above discussion is that sometimes you don’t get translate prompt. We have rolled out translate incrementally to our user base. Currently all of you should have Translate capability lighted up across Dev and Canary builds. Please do check for following:
      - Update Edge by clicking on update icon on top right corner
      - Restart Edge if necessary and check if the issue persists.
      - Check if a language is marked as your known language, by visiting Setting  languages. If this is accidentally added, remove it from there.
      When does Edge not offer Translate:
      - When a page is in a certain language and that language has been marked as a language that you know. You can look up at this list by going to Setting  languages
      - When content in a given page is too less for us to successfully detect the language of the page
      - When the web page has multiple languages and the predominant language is one that is in your known list of languages.

      If issue still persists, please let us know. If possible, do share the URL in reference as well.
      Thanks!

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      amitkun
      Former Employee
      May 30, 2019

      Hey debsuvra - thank you for self-hosting. Could you please share the webpage where you tried. thank you!

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        debsuvra
        Copper Contributor
        May 30, 2019

        amitkun I tried a couple of websites, for example https://www.anandabazar.com/ which is a popular Bengali daily. Edge doesn't trigger translation notification on this website. To test if this was Bengali language specific, I also tried https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/ which successfully triggers the translation notification. So it may be something specific with AnandaBazar.

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