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Translate has voice input, and it is built for phrases rather than paragraphs. Typally types what you say straight into Google Translate — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Google Translate lets you type.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Google Translate already does without talking you out of using it.Voice input and conversation mode, designed for short spoken exchanges. It transcribes and translates in one step.
Its voice mode is optimised for travel-sized utterances. Translating a long email or a document means composing a paragraph in your own language first, and that composition is where the typing happens.
In practice people use it for: Composing the source text to be translated, long messages to international contacts, and drafting in a second language.
You do not configure anything in Google Translate. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Text goes wherever Google Translate has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Push to talk, say your piece, release to transcribe.
Translate's own voice input transcribes and translates together, so you never see the source text. Dictating into the box separately lets you check what you actually said first.
Typally lets you compose and check the source text before translating, which Translate's own voice mode skips entirely — it transcribes and translates in one step, so a mishearing becomes a mistranslation you never see. Speak into the box, read it, then translate. Whisper-based transcription also detects which language you are speaking.
Someone writing to a supplier abroad speaks the full message in their own language, corrects two words, and only then translates. The supplier stops replying with clarifying questions caused by a mistranscribed phrase.
Dictate the full source text in your strongest language, read it, then translate. Translating a well-formed paragraph beats translating a fragment you typed under time pressure.
Translate's own voice input transcribes and translates together, so you never see the source text. Dictating into the box separately lets you check what you actually said first.
Yes, aimed at short spoken phrases and conversations rather than long text.
Because you can read and fix the source text before translating. Voice mode translates whatever it heard, mistakes included.
Whisper-based transcription supports many languages and Typally detects which one you are speaking.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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