Translate

Yandex Browser for mobile automatically detects the language of the loaded page and can translate it into or another language of your choice.

Yandex Translate window

Yandex Browser can translate a text, image, or site page right in the current tab.

Offer to translate pages

If you want Yandex Browser to offer to translate pages when you open them:

  1. Tap Меню → → Yandex Translate.

  2. Enable the Offer to translate pages option.

The translator isn't working

The translator is enabled in the browser by default. Make sure that you have not turned off the translator manually:

  1. Tap Меню → → Yandex Translate.

  2. Make sure the Offer to translate pages option is enabled.

Translate pages automatically

To translate pages automatically:

  1. Tap Меню → → Yandex Translate.

  2. Enable the Translate pages automatically option.

Pages

Note

Yandex Browser translates pages from over 90 languages.

To translate a page from a foreign language into Russian, to the right of the SmartBox, tap → Translate page.

The icon will appear to the right of the SmartBox, and above it, you'll see a translation panel showing the progress.

Change translation language

To translate a page into the language of your choice, select the language you need from the list in the translation panel.

To return to the page in the original language:

In the SmartBox

To the right of the SmartBox, click .

From the translation bar

Tap on the right of the translation bar.

From the page menu

Tap → Show original.

To disable Yandex Translate:

  1. Tap Меню → → Yandex Translate.

  2. Disable the Offer to translate pages option.

Words and phrases

The browser translates individual words and sentences into Russian. To see the translation of a word or phrase:

  1. Select them in the text.

  2. On the toolbar that appears, tap Translate.

Translate subtitles

Restriction

Yandex provides subtitles for videos on a number of hosting sites, including Coursera, VK, YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, and 9GAG.

Yandex Browser supports subtitles for all videos that it can translate. Use it to:

  • Automatically create and translate subtitles for videos in 8 languages.
  • Translate existing subtitles from over 90 languages.

To enable and configure subtitles:

  1. In the video, tap .

  2. To configure subtitles, tap and select Subtitle language: you can select the original language or translation. If the video already has subtitles, you can select the service's subtitles instead of Yandex ones.

Note

To look up the translation of a word in the subtitles, simply click it. The video will pause, and the translation of the word and phrase will appear in a pop-up window. To continue watching, click anywhere inside the video window.

Can’t turn on subtitles with video translation

  1. Tap Меню → → Translate → Translate and Subtitles buttons on videos and Subtitles button on untranslated videos.

  2. In the video, enable and configure subtitles.

If you're watching a video in fullscreen mode or on top of other apps (picture-in-picture), subtitles aren't available. To enable and configure subtitles, return to normal mode. Then you can reopen the video in fullscreen or on top of apps.

How to enable untranslated subtitles

  1. Next to the translation icon, tap .

  2. Enable Subtitles.

  3. In the Subtitle language field, select the original language. If the platform has its own subtitles, you can also select them.

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