Voice translators

Have you tried Google Voice? Just download the app.

DeepL app is the best one.

Forget Google. Like all from that company low quality.

I'm an Android user, and my wife and I use the Microsoft "Translator" app. Works great for us. You can type, or speak into it and see or hear another language. Or you can very quickly let it photograph anything and translate it. It doesn't need internet, other than one time downloading of whatever languages you want. And there is a "conversation" mode where two people communicate, but I don't know how that works. Free app, may be worth trying.

Google Translate has a conversation mode that is very handy. You can have a conversation with someone speaking a different language than you without having to do anything.

DeepL doesn't have this.

There is likely a reason why DeepL has 4.6 rating and Google Translate only 4.2 in Google Play app store.

DeepL supports also a conversation by pressing one button between speaking persons which avoids chaos in conversations with foreign people.

And for professional usage DeepL has a Voice solution which lets people from lots of different language backgrounds interact in real-time, e. g. in Video Calls with MS Teams. As app it also has a screen share mode for face-to-face conversations.

btw: you can see in a Cnet test video how people experience the low quality of Google Translate.

Forget Google. Like all from that company low quality.

It's worked very well for me.

There is likely a reason why DeepL has 4.6 rating and Google Translate only 4.2 in Google Play app store.

People are fickle and I don't rely on ratings as a true assessment.

I don't use either one.

I haven't done any scientific testing, but in my opinion DeepL generally works better than Google translate. The drawback of DeepL is that it supports fewer languages, so if you want to translate anything to Albanian, Sami, Maltese or Basque it won't help you. But it supports most European languages so that will probably not be a problem for most people.

I use Google translate all the time. It has worked really well in Spain and Portugal on my Caminos, then I use it here in Frankfurt for odd things like translating old Jewish gravestones. So, it does pretty well with old, worn, carved in stone Hebrew. Tried it on the amulet that just went on display in our Archeology museum, with ancient Latin, and it did translate a couple of the words.

I've been using Google Translate for several years, and it's worked reasonably well when entering text on the keyboard. I've tried spoken translation several times with native German and Italian speakers, with mixed results. That was awhile ago and I haven't had the opportunity to test conversational translation recently.

I spent some time in a hospital in Italy a few years ago and had many opportunities to test it. The daughter of the other patient in the room came to visit at least once a day. She was a teacher but didn't speak any English, and I spent a fair amount of time testing it out with her. She found that the translations were partially accurate some of the time, but other times they were completely wrong. Between the translator and my limited Italian, we were able to communicate to some extent. Google Translate* seems to be getting updates and improvements on a regular basis, and it seems more functional now than it was previously.

I have RAI Uno in my cable package at home, and using Google to translate short clips of dialogue gives me a fairly good idea what the discussion is about. I also have Apple Translate on my phone, but it doesn't seem to be as user friendly as Google. I imagine that AI will provide quicker and more accurate translations. I wasn't aware of DeepL but will have a closer look at it.