[News] TELEGRAM SHOWS ITS INTENTION TO COMPETE WITH GOOGLE TRANSLATE

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Many of the applications and services that they use on a daily basis have hidden functions that provide enormous added value. For example, Telegram has a bunch of tricks to use the app in ways you may not have even thought of, one of them being a "hidden" translator.

A few days ago the 9.4 update to Telegram arrived, which added, among other functions and improvements, an automatic translator for chats. This is great, but it is an exclusive feature for premium users. Of course, do not worry because the Telegram translator that we show you now is not automatic, but it is free and very easy to use.

Before translating texts, you will have to navigate a little through the menus to activate the option that the translator appeared. All you have to do is follow these steps:

On the main Telegram screen, click on the three lines on the top right and go to 'Settings'.
You scroll a bit and select the 'Language' section.
Here you can change the language of the app, obviously, but what we are interested in is activating the 'Show translate button' button.
Once this is done, in 'Do not translate' you select your native language (why do you want to translate your own language into your language?).

Done, with this you will have activated the translator option in Telegram. Now, all you have to do is copy a text in another language in a private chat or start talking to people of another language and click on the message.

The typical options to respond, copy, fix and, in addition, to translate will appear. You select it and that's it, the translation appears in your language. From what we have been testing, it is quite faithful, so you will have no problem understanding what is said to you in another language.

Now, what happens if what you want is to send messages in another language? Here who is going to help you is Google's own keyboard, the Gboard. All you have to do is:

On the keyboard, click on the three options dots at the top right to display a menu of actions.
You click on 'Translate'.
You can let it detect the language and select the language you want to translate the message into.
You write... and that's it, you already have the converted message ready to send.

In this case I think the translation is worse, but I don't think the person on the other side of the chat will have trouble understanding you. So, you see, two super-easy options to use Telegram as if it were a translation application that, to tell you the truth, was very useful to me a few months ago on a trip to Italy.

 

Link: https://hoyentec.com/tecnologia/telegram-demuestra-sus-intenciones-de-competir-con-google-translate/