Translate in Microsoft Edge

[Elliot Kirk]

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 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 languages, which cover the vast majority of webpages on internet today

List of languages supported
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

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!

[#2]

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.

[#3]

@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.

[#4]

@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. ;)

[#5]

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

[#6]

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.

[#7]

@Ismael Martinez 

How much of the page needs to be in another language to translate the whole page? 

[#8]

@Peter_Dinh Thanks for your feedback. We are working on this and will be bringing this option within the flyout.

[#9]

The design for dark mode is not great at the moment. We would be updating this shortly! Thanks for sharing the feedback

[#10]

@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.

[#11]

@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

[#12]

@An_old_bloke Translate is now appearing on some pages, but not others. Will translate one Czech site but not another.

Ken

[#13]

@An_old_bloke , is it possible to share the site where it did not trigger translate flyout?

[#14]

@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 

[#15]

Thanks for selfhosting @BrianMwai - that's a nice suggestion. Please do use the smiley button to share these ideas.

[#16]

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.

[#17]

@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.

[#18]

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@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.

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Your welcome, and thanks for the heads up about translating selected text and smaller portions of a page being translated..@amitkun 

Dennis5mile

[#19]

@Elliot Kirk 

I don't get a translate icon when visiting foreign language pages. I have Edge Dev Version 76.0.167.1.

[#20]

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.

[#21]

Translate works well on web pages. It does not work on You Tube video chats that are in another language.

[#22]

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.

[#23]

@Jussi Palo 

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.

[#24]

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/

[#25]

@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).

[#26]

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@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/

https://osaka-chuokokaido.jp/

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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

[#27]

That would be very useful. I used the Google Translate extension, which has this option.

[#28]

After reboot PC, translate works ok as described. Except no translate option in right click context menu.

[#29]

Correction. After reboot again and restart Edge, right click context menu option works ok.

[#30]

@Elliot Kirk 

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.

[#31]

@Anoop_Gopikumar http://velomobil.cz/ is one. http://www.velomobiel.nl/ is another

[#32]

@Anoop_Gopikumar http://velomobil.cz/ is one. http://www.velomobiel.nl/ is another

[#33]

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.

[#34]

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!

[#35]

Hey @Joshua Morrison - the way you can do that today is via the context menu.

1. Translate option would show up in the context menu on a English page as well.
2. When you select that translate icon comes up near the address bar.
3. 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. 

[#36]

Hey @roirraWedorehT - can you please restart the browser and try again. It worked for multiple folks in this thread. 

thanks!

[#37]

@amitkun That worked perfectly, thanks!  And thanks to the team for adding the Close Microsoft Edge option.

[#38]

@ikjadoon that option appear to me, the translation not trigger at all.

[#39]

Mabye remove swedish, becouse its not existing atlest not for the latest Microsoft Edge Insider Dev build.

[#40]

I am on the latest build of Microsoft edge 76.0.167.1. Still, I am not getting a translation option or automatic translation. 

[#41]

@Elliot Kirk 

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 :)

[#42]

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.

[#43]

I went to several websites in Italian, Spanish and French. No translation or offer to translate. No translate Icon available.

[#44]

Sorry for the stupid question, but how to install Microsoft translator?

[#45]

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 

[#46]

@Elliot Kirk 

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.

[#47]

@_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.

[#48]

@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.

[#49]

@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.

[#50]

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