Standalone English-Chinese translation app?
November 30, 2023 3:14 PM   Subscribe

So these cell-phone translation apps (SayHi, Microsoft Translator, etc) are amazing, but are there any that can do their magic without being connected to the internet? Naturally, that would increase the space they take up on the phone, since their dictionaries couldn't be stored in the Cloud. An unrealistic request, even in 2023?
posted by Rash to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)
 
The dictionary isn't the problem (my dad has had a Chinese dictionary on his ipod since ipods were a thing), it's the speech to text aspect that's computationally intensive. I haven't seen this, but I'll be watching responses.
posted by momus_window at 3:28 PM on November 30, 2023


Best answer: Google translate app supports downloading most of their language databases locally. Chinese is available as one of the options (just checked).

google translate offline
posted by TheAdamist at 3:57 PM on November 30, 2023 [4 favorites]


Apple's first-party "Translate" app has this feature too.
posted by neckro23 at 10:43 PM on November 30, 2023


I've worked as a Chinese translator and utilized good translate for assistance, it's pretty good.
posted by bearette at 4:21 AM on December 1, 2023


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