Use Google Translate quickly and directly from your desktop with this site-wrapper program that you can minimize to the system tray
Even though its not 100% accurate, Google Translate remains an extremely powerful and reliable tool used by many [including professional translators]. Still, when youre translating a document at a breakneck pace, you may want to ignore the distractions of your web browser.
For this reason, you could try and include Google Translate Desktop in your work routine.
The power of Google Translate on your desktop
Essentially, Google Translate Desktop is a site-wrapper program, which means that it looks and feels exactly like the Google Translate web app and has all its functionalities. You can translate words, phrases or larger blocks of text and listen to pronunciations. When translating single words you usually get more than one result, each with various meanings and synonyms.
The program supports over 100 languages and their respective alphabets, which may include different characters, as well as diacritical marks. When you translate into a language that has an alphabet different than the Latin one [like Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic etc.] you usually get words in the original alphabet, but also Romanized versions.
A fast translating tool
One extra feature in Google Translate Desktop is that you dont need to manually copy and paste text in the interface to get it translated. When youre browsing the web or a document, simply select the text and then press Ctrl+F1. Google Translate Desktop will automatically detect the language and perform the translation instantly.
The application comes with a simple and familiar interface, but is also lightweight and doesnt slow your computer. You can minimize it to the system tray and keep it out of the way until you need to use it. Its true that its not the first [and probably not the last] desktop version of Google Translate, so I cant really say that it brings anything new to the table. But since it does its job admirably, then theres no reason to hesitate before using it.
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