Translate
Yandex Browser's built-in translator can translate everything you need: text, image captions, sites, and documents.
Yandex Translate windows
In this mode, you can translate text, image, site, or a video on the current tab.
Yandex Browser will prompt you to translate the page if its language is different from your interface language. You can access Yandex Translate or translate specific words, images or videos using the context menu.
Pages
Yandex Browser automatically detects the language of the loaded page. If it's different from the interface language, Yandex Browser asks if you want to translate it. You can also open the translation window by clicking or → Translate page.
Restriction
If Yandex Browser language is Chinese, Japanese, or Kazakh, the translation icon doesn't appear.
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To translate the page text into the Yandex Browser interface language, click Translate in the window. To display the page text in the original language again, click Show original in the window.
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If you want to translate the page into a different foreign language, choose it manually by clicking → Change language in the window.
If you translated a page into a language and then changed the translation language, the images will automatically be translated into the new language.
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To see the original text of the translated page, hover over a sentence. The original text appears in a pop-up window.
If the pop-up with text doesn't appear:
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Click → Settings → Tools.
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In the Translate section, enable the Display pop-ups with original text option.
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Words and phrases
The browser can translate separate words and sentences on the page to English. To see the translation of a word or phrase, select it and click Translate in the context menu. A pop-up with the translation will appear on the page.
To change the language, click and select the one you need.
To copy the text, click .
If the translator doesn't work
The translator is enabled in the browser by default. Make sure that you have not turned off the translator manually:
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Click → Settings → Tools.
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In the Translate section, make sure the following options are enabled:
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Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.
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Translate selected words and phrases.
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Show the translate image button.
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Translate images
One image
Right-click the image and select Translate image in the context menu.
To translate the rest of the images:
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Hover over an image and then over the panel that appears.
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Click → Translate image.
Note
If an image is small, the translate button isn't shown. Right-click the image and select Translate image in the context menu.
To hide the translate button on all images, hover over any image and click → Hide button.
You can always restore the translate button later. To do this, right-click an image and select Translate image or Show original in the context menu.
Note
If you want to restore the translate button immediately after hiding it, refresh the page to see the panel.
View the original image
To see the original image, use one of the following methods:
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Hover your mouse cursor over an image and then over the panel that appears. Click Show original.
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Right-click the image and select Show original in the context menu.
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Hover over an image and click → Show original.
If the image won't translate
If translation fails, the icon appears on the image. The translator can't recognize images that aren't clear enough and text that's cursive or handwritten.
If an image is small (such as a button with text on it), the translation may be hidden. Hover over the image to see it.
If the translator doesn't work
The translator is enabled in the browser by default. Make sure that you have not turned off the translator manually:
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Click → Settings → Tools.
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In the Translate section, make sure the following options are enabled:
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Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.
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Translate selected words and phrases.
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Show the translate image button.
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All images
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Translate a page automatically or manually.
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In the Page translated into
window that opens, click Translate all images.
Note
If there are no images with text in them on the site, the window doesn't open.
To display the page text and images in the original language again, click Show original in the window.
Translation of documents
Yandex Browser can translate DOC, DOCX, and PDF documents, XLS and XLSX spreadsheets, and PPT and PPTX presentations.
How to translate a document:
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Open a new tab → Translator.
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Select the target language above the box.
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Drag a document to the Translator tab, paste a link, or click to upload a document from your device.
Restriction
You can upload a file up to 15 MB in size.
To view the translated document, click Preview.
Subtitles
Yandex Browser supports subtitles for all videos that it can translate. You can turn on subtitles for the source language, the target language, and in Russian and English videos. Subtitles are available on any site, for any video and live stream. To enable and configure subtitles:
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Hover over the video.
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Click the icon or Subtitles. If the icon is missing, click and enable the Subtitles option.
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Configure the subtitles:
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Language: Select the original or target language. If a video already has its own subtitles, you can choose to use them instead of the ones generated by Yandex.
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Highlight words: The words that are currently being spoken are highlighted. This can be useful for language learners and karaoke enthusiasts. The option is only available for subtitles in the original language.
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Style: You can choose the font size, adjust the transparency of the subtitle background, and enable the Scale automatically option. When this option is enabled, the subtitle size adjusts to the size of the video window.
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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.
Translation settings
Enable translation by default
If you want Yandex Browser to translate pages in a particular language without asking for permission:
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Open any page in the language you wish to enable translation for by default.
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Click → → Change language.
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Select the Always translate from
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Click Translate.
Disable translation by default
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Open any page in the language that you don't want the browser to translate.
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Click → → Never translate from
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Click → Settings → System.
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Open Language and region settings.
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Under Page display language, remove the selected language.
Enable translation by default
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Open any page in the language you wish to re-enable translation for.
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Click → and deselect the Never translate from
option.
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Click → Settings → System.
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Open Language and region settings.
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Under Page display language, click Add language.
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Select the language from the full list of languages supported by Yandex Browser.
Improve page language detection
1. Click → Settings → Tools.
2. Make sure that the Send text snippets to Yandex to improve translation quality option is selected under Translate.
Turn translation off
If you don't want Yandex Browser to offer to translate pages in a foreign language:
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Click → Settings → Tools.
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In the Translate section, disable Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.
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Click → Settings → Tools.
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In the Translate section, disable Translate selected words and phrases and Translate a word by pointing the cursor at it and pressing the Shift key.
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Click → Settings → Tools.
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In the Translate section, disable Show the translate image button.