05-22-2019 02:43 PM
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.
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
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
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 is currently supported on 54 languages, which cover the vast majority of webpages on internet today
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Afrikaans |
Czech |
Greek |
Korean |
Portuguese |
Swedish |
Arabic |
Danish |
Haitian Creole |
Latvian |
Romanian |
Tamil |
Bangla |
Dutch |
Hebrew |
Lithuanian |
Russian |
Thai |
Bosnian (Latin) |
English |
Hindi |
Malagasy |
Samoan |
Tongan |
Bulgarian |
Estonian |
Hungarian |
Malay |
Serbian (Cyrillic) |
Turkish |
Catalan |
Filipino |
Icelandic |
Maltese |
Slovak |
Ukrainian |
Chinese Simplified |
Finnish |
Indonesian |
Norwegian |
Slovenian |
Urdu |
Chinese Traditional |
French |
Italian |
Persian |
Spanish |
Vietnamese |
Croatian |
German |
Japanese |
Polish |
Swahili |
Welsh |
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!
05-22-2019 02:48 PM - edited 05-22-2019 02:55 PM
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.
05-22-2019 05:44 PM
@Elliot Kirk maybe you can add an option where the browser can read the word out loud :speaker_high_volume: either the highlighted word that needs to be translated or the translated word.
05-22-2019 06:19 PM
@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. ;)
05-22-2019 06:26 PM
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
05-23-2019 04:15 AM - edited 05-25-2019 12:34 PM
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.
05-23-2019 05:38 AM - edited 05-23-2019 05:40 AM
How much of the page needs to be in another language to translate the whole page?
05-23-2019 11:14 AM
@Peter_Dinh Thanks for your feedback. We are working on this and will be bringing this option within the flyout.
05-23-2019 11:28 AM
05-23-2019 03:11 PM
@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.
05-23-2019 06:07 PM
@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
05-23-2019 07:12 PM
@An_old_bloke Translate is now appearing on some pages, but not others. Will translate one Czech site but not another.
Ken
05-24-2019 01:34 AM
@An_old_bloke , is it possible to share the site where it did not trigger translate flyout?
05-24-2019 01:36 AM
@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
05-24-2019 05:05 AM
Thanks for selfhosting @BrianMwai - that's a nice suggestion. Please do use the smiley button to share these ideas.
05-24-2019 05:12 AM
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.
05-24-2019 05:14 AM
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.
05-24-2019 05:31 AM
@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
05-24-2019 08:30 AM
I don't get a translate icon when visiting foreign language pages. I have Edge Dev Version 76.0.167.1.
05-24-2019 09:00 AM - edited 05-24-2019 09:17 AM
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.
05-24-2019 09:26 AM
05-24-2019 09:29 AM
Hey @TomLake - as reported in the thread. Kindly try restarting the browser and translate should be offered. Would be happy to assist if it still does not work.
05-24-2019 09:29 AM
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.
:white_heavy_check_mark: Microsoft Translation: Today Malaysia comprises three divisions – Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, although it didn't start that way initially.
:cross_mark: 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.
05-24-2019 10:34 AM
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.
05-24-2019 11:07 AM
@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).
05-24-2019 12:40 PM - edited 05-24-2019 12:43 PM
@demodulated wrote: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/
hhmm, I just clicked your link to yokoso.metro.tokyo and a popup showed up asking me if I wanted to translate to choose a language to translate to... I chose English and the whole page was translated..
Works fine for me... well, almost all of it..... Maybe you need to restart the browser or/and check your translation settings... @demodulated
Dennis5mile
05-24-2019 12:46 PM
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05-24-2019 01:13 PM
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.
05-24-2019 06:56 PM
@Anoop_Gopikumar http://velomobil.cz/ is one. http://www.velomobiel.nl/ is another
05-24-2019 07:01 PM
05-25-2019 04:24 AM
05-25-2019 04:46 AM
Hey @ikjadoon - thank you for self hosting and taking the time to share feedback.
I will pass on your suggestion about trigger logic. I will also encourage you to use the smiley in the top right as way to pass on your feedback.
Am super happy that you find the quality of translation to be good!
05-25-2019 04:55 AM
Hey @Joshua Morrison - the way you can do that today is via the context menu.
Hope this helps.
I think an interesting point that comes out is can we name the context menu option better.
05-25-2019 04:56 AM
Hey @roirraWedorehT - can you please restart the browser and try again. It worked for multiple folks in this thread.
thanks!
05-25-2019 04:58 AM
@amitkun That worked perfectly, thanks! And thanks to the team for adding the Close Microsoft Edge option.
05-25-2019 06:37 AM
@ikjadoon that option appear to me, the translation not trigger at all.
05-25-2019 06:03 PM
05-25-2019 10:02 PM
I am on the latest build of Microsoft edge 76.0.167.1. Still, I am not getting a translation option or automatic translation.
05-26-2019 03:24 AM
I have tried with several swedish websites. Automatic detection does not work anywhere. I do not even get an option to translate manually.
I have checked the response headers and content. Some of them expose correctly the content-language header, some put correctly the lang attribute in the html tag, some of them miss both or one of them, but it does not make any difference. The translator never kicks in and it does not show any option to use is manually.
One of the website I have tried is sv.wikipedia.org just to follow the example shown in your post, but even in that case, despite having all the right headers and attributes, the language is not detected.
I get the Reading View icon almost everywhere though, nice feature :)
05-26-2019 06:03 AM
05-27-2019 05:42 AM
05-27-2019 12:35 PM
Sorry for the stupid question, but how to install Microsoft translator?
05-27-2019 02:08 PM
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
05-28-2019 12:10 AM
For me it simply does not work at all. I went to https://www.gouvernement.fr/ on build 76.0.167.1 as a result of getting the welcome back page appear in a tab telling me about the new translate function.
There is no translate button/icon in the address bar and no context menu option to translate when hightlighting a word or short phrase either.
It seems unlikely that MS would announce such a feature that was completely broken so I'm not sure what is wrong.
05-28-2019 12:11 AM
@_jimshover Can you update the browser (by clicking on the update icon on top right corner) and restart the browser. Let us know if the issue persists along with version no. you are on.
05-28-2019 12:12 AM - edited 05-28-2019 12:32 AM
@Peter Row , @nehal1507 Can you update the browser (by clicking on the update icon on top right corner) and restart the browser. Let us know if the issue persists along with version no. you are on.
05-28-2019 12:28 AM
@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.
05-28-2019 02:00 AM
@Anoop_Gopikumar Hi, I can confirm that is not the case as I haven't marked any languages for auto-translate yet.