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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.
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Translation on Microsoft Edge for iOS |
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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
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List of languages supported |
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Afrikaans |
Dutch |
Hindi |
Malagasy |
Punjabi |
Tamil |
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Arabic |
English |
Hungarian |
Malay |
Romanian |
Telugu |
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Bangla |
Estonian |
Icelandic |
Malayalam |
Russian |
Thai |
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Bosnian (Latin) |
Filipino |
Indonesian |
Maltese |
Samoan |
Tongan |
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Bulgarian |
Finnish |
Irish |
Maori |
Serbian (Cyrillic) |
Turkish |
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Catalan |
French |
Italian |
Marathi | Serbian (Latin) | Ukrainian |
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Chinese Simplified |
German |
Japanese |
Norwegian |
Slovak |
Urdu |
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Chinese Traditional |
Greek |
Kannada |
Persian |
Slovenian |
Vietnamese |
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Croatian |
Gujararti |
Korean |
Polish |
Spanish |
Welsh |
| Czech |
Haitian Creole |
Latvian |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Swahili |
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| 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!
89 Replies
- I am not finding either the language icon in the address bar, nor an option to translate in the right-click context menu.
Fully updated and on:
Microsoft Edge is up to date
Version 76.0.167.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit)
Thanks.Hey roirraWedorehT - can you please restart the browser and try again. It worked for multiple folks in this thread.
thanks!
amitkun That worked perfectly, thanks! And thanks to the team for adding the Close Microsoft Edge option.
I love that Edge now has translation built in, but why does it only allow me to translate if the page isn't in my preferred language? I'm an English speaker learning Spanish. I'd like the option always available to translate a page, even if it's already in my preferred language. For example, I'd like the ability to translate an English page (my preferred language) into Spanish. Please consider changing the way translation is implemented to allow this for folks. Thank you and everyone for your work on this awesome new browser!
Thank you.
Hey Joshua Morrison - the way you can do that today is via the context menu.
- Translate option would show up in the context menu on a English page as well.
- When you select that translate icon comes up near the address bar.
- Once you click on that, you get ability to choose your target language.
Hope this helps.
I think an interesting point that comes out is can we name the context menu option better.
- After reboot PC, translate works ok as described. Except no translate option in right click context menu.
- Correction. After reboot again and restart Edge, right click context menu option works ok.
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).
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,- That would be very useful. I used the Google Translate extension, which has this option.
I just updated to Edge Version 76.0.167.1 (Official build) dev (64-bit) and visited the following two Japanese language websites but neither one triggers the translation functionality to show. No translation icon appears in the address bar and right-clicking the body of the page does not show a Translate to English option.
http://www.yokoso.metro.tokyo.jp/
https://osaka-chuokokaido.jp/
demodulated I just checked on Edge Canary 77 and the translation prompt does show up on the two pages. Please do give it another try and let us know
demodulated
For some reason I can't find some of my replies, sometimes including answering this... weird.
Anyway, I too, tried the sites you mentioned & without any problem.
Cheers,
Drewdemodulated
I just tried the 2 sites you mentioned...
Cheers,
Drew
- Translate works well on web pages. It does not work on You Tube video chats that are in another language.
I don't get a translate icon when visiting foreign language pages. I have Edge Dev Version 76.0.167.1.
Same here, release note say "The built-in translator has now rolled out to everyone.", but Edge Dev doesn't offer translations on any language I tried. Only languages I have defined in the browser is en-us (primary) and fi-fi, and tried sites in Swedish, Spanish, French, Norwegian, but nothing. Using Dev 76.0.167.1.
EDIT: After restarting the computer, Edge Dev again prompted it had updated to .1, and now Translation is working correctly, so try restarting your browser, and if it has no effect, restart also computer.
I think the "when to translate" prompt is too restrictive: while I added Malay, I still want the first appearance of a Malay page to trigger "Should we translate? always or just once right now?"
I could not get the "automatic detection" to trigger until I checked this option:
My suggestion:
Even if we have added secondary languages to Microsoft Edge, on the first load of a page in that secondary language, the pop-up prompt should appear with three options: 1) translate once, 2) always translate or 3) never translate. Going through menus to turn on automatic detection seems....a bit counterintuitive to me.
I added Malay for spell-checking only--I still would like automatic translation. Just my two cents.
// off-topic
The translation quality for Malay to English is pretty solid, to my sincere surprise. Props to whoever at Microsoft worked on that!
Malay: Hari ini Malaysia merangkumi tiga bahagian – Semenanjung Malaysia, Sabah dan Sarawak, walaupun ia tidak bermula sebegitu pada permulaannya.✅ Microsoft Translation: Today Malaysia comprises three divisions – Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, although it didn't start that way initially.
❌ Google Translation: Today Malaysia comprises three parts - Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, although it does not start at the beginning.
Google translates "sebegitu" 100% incorrectly: the Google Translated English ends up kind of nonsensical! The Microsoft translation is far more readable: I honestly thought it pulled the human-translated English version of this document and didn't actually translate the original Malay, but it did.
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 Translate is now appearing on some pages, but not others. Will translate one Czech site but not another.
Ken
An_old_bloke , is it possible to share the site where it did not trigger translate flyout?
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.
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
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.
