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SDL Translate - Chat, Text, and Voice Translation app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 1712 ratings )
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Developer: SDL plc
Free
Current version: 2.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 15 Nov 2013
App size: 13.17 Mb

With SDL Translate you can chat with friends in any language. Just type or speak your message and your friend will receive the translation in real-time. You wont need to copy/paste messages from WhatsApp, Facebook or other chat applications into other translation apps, just invite friends and start chatting - SDL Translate takes care of the rest!

You can also process translations in over 40 languages and more than 90 language pairings. This includes chat, speech, text, and document translation, all for free.

Speak into the microphone to input a translation, listen to your translation in another language, upload a document from your Dropbox account to get it translated (and formatted) instantly, and translate common figures of speech. Its a great app when you travel, if youre learning a language, or if youre trying to communicate in other languages.

SDL Translate Features:

* Chat Translation - Add friends and chat. Your conversation gets translated in real-time. If you disable translation, it works just like a any other chat app.

* Translate idiomatic phrases. You can learn figures of speech in French, Spanish, and German.

* Save your favorite translations and even share them through other apps on your phone (ex: email, social media, text)

* Text to Voice. Listen to translations in other languages. Tap to hear your translation spoken aloud. (Supported languages only)

* Control the voice speed and improve your pronunciation.

* Voice to text. Speak into the app if you dont feel like typing. Your words will be automatically translated.

* Translate Documents. Upload documents via Dropbox and get them translated instantly while maintaining the original formatting.
(doc/x, ppt/x, txt, pdf, and more)

* Share your translations via social media or other apps on your phone.

* Introductory Phrases available offline. Great for when youre travelling and you dont have a network connection enabled. Available for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Portuguese.

* No Ads. Ever.



Languages available for Translation:

Western Europe:

Danish ⇨ English
Dutch ⇨ English
English ⇨ Albanian
English ⇨ Arabic
English ⇨ Bengali
English ⇨ Bulgarian
English ⇨ Chinese (Simplified)
English ⇨ Chinese (Traditional)
English ⇨ Czech
English ⇨ Danish
English ⇨ Dutch
English ⇨ Estonian
English ⇨ Finnish
English ⇨ French
English ⇨ German
English ⇨ Greek
English ⇨ Pashto
English ⇨ Hausa
English ⇨ Hebrew
English ⇨ Hindi
English ⇨ Hungarian
English ⇨ Indonesian
English ⇨ Italian
English ⇨ Japanese
English ⇨ Korean
English ⇨ Latvian
English ⇨ Lithuanian
English ⇨ Malay
English ⇨ Norwegian
English ⇨ Polish
English ⇨ Portuguese
English ⇨ Persian
English ⇨ Romanian
English ⇨ Russian
English ⇨ Spanish
English ⇨ Somali
English ⇨ Serbian
English ⇨ Slovak
English ⇨ Slovenian
English ⇨ Swedish
English ⇨ Thai
English ⇨ Turkish
English ⇨ Ukrainian
English ⇨ Urdu
English ⇨ Vietnamese
Finnish ⇨ English
French ⇨ English
French ⇨ Arabic
French ⇨ Spanish
French ⇨ German
Spanish ⇨ Italian
German ⇨ English
German ⇨ French
German ⇨ Spanish
Greek ⇨ English
Italian ⇨ English
Italian ⇨ Spanish
Norwegian ⇨ English
Portuguese ⇨ English
Spanish ⇨ English
Spanish ⇨ Arabic
Spanish ⇨ French
Spanish ⇨ German
Swedish ⇨ English


Eastern Europe:

Albanian ⇨ English
Bulgarian ⇨ English
Czech ⇨ English
Estonian ⇨ English
Hungarian ⇨ English
Latvian ⇨ English
Lithuanian ⇨ English
Polish ⇨ English
Romanian ⇨ English
Russian ⇨ English
Slovak ⇨ English
Serbian ⇨ English
Slovenian ⇨ English
Ukrainian ⇨ English


Middle East & Africa:

Arabic ⇨ English
Arabic ⇨ Spanish
Arabic ⇨ French
Hausa ⇨ English
Hebrew ⇨ English
Pashto ⇨ English
Persian ⇨ English
Somali ⇨ English
Turkish ⇨ English

Asia:

Bengali ⇨ English
Hindi ⇨ English
Korean ⇨ English
Urdu ⇨ English
Chinese (Simplified) ⇨ English
Chinese (Traditional) ⇨ English
Indonesian ⇨ English
Malay ⇨ English
Vietnamese ⇨ English
Japanese ⇨ English
Thai ⇨ English

Pros and cons of SDL Translate - Chat, Text, and Voice Translation app for iPhone and iPad

SDL Translate - Chat, Text, and Voice Translation app good for

nice smooth working app! will delete all my other translation apps!
Simple to use, better thank Google, and the translation quality gets better all the time.
I use it many times to translate but also to wright better since English is not my mother thong

Some bad moments

This app is great if all you want is English to French translated or vice-versa... Wont let you change the language! I was hoping itd be better but nope..
I like the idea of the app and its convenience, but its honestly no better or even worse than Google Translate with grammatical errors. Sure, it translates words, but dont expect it to accurately translate sentences or paragraphs.
Well it used to work fine and all and I loved it but now when I upgraded it doesnt even want to open ...just please fix the problem I really love this app and it still isnt working
Sometimes I will try to translate a phrase in Google Translate. The phrase translates extremely fast, but the actual translation is inaccurate. When I translate the same phrases within this app, the translations are more accurate when the app actually translates the phrase. This app times out way too often and often simply pops with an "oops" error message when I try to translate my phrases. Please fix the issue. I know it is not my internet connection because all of the other online translator apps work fine.
After reading the reviews I was so enthusiastic and I installed it but … its a shame it only works for iOS 7 onwards. Does that mean it only works for iPhone 5 or later? What a shame!
It will translate an unlimited amount of words. It did it more accurate than google translate.