Translation of pages, images, and videos

The built-in translator shows words and phrases in the language used in the Yandex Browser interface. It can also recognize text in images and provides translation over the source text.

  1. Translate pages, words, and phrases
  2. Check spelling in a foreign language
  3. Translate images
  4. Translation settings
  5. Turn translation off
  6. Problems with translation

Translate pages, words, and phrases

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 dialog window by clicking  in the SmartBox.

  • To translate the page text to 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.

  • If you want to translate a page into a different foreign language, choose the language manually by clicking   → Translate page into a different 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.

  • To see the original text of the translated page, hover over a sentence. The original text appears in a pop-up window.

    Note.

    If the pop-up window with the text doesn't appear:

    1. Click   → Settings → Tools.
    2. In the Translate section, enable the Display pop-ups with original text option.

Check spelling in a foreign language

Yandex Browser checks spelling in input forms. For example, when you work with mail.

Enable the spellchecker using a built-in dictionary
  1. Click   → Settings → System.
  2. Open Language and region settings.
  3. In the Spell check section, click Add language.
  4. On the left side of the Languages window, select the language.
    Note. If the language you need is not on the list, go back to Language and region settings. In the Page display language section, click Add language and select the language from the full list of languages supported by Yandex Browser.
Add a word to the user dictionary

When you enter text, Yandex Browser underlines unfamiliar words. If you are sure the underlined word is spelled correctly, right-click it and select Add to dictionary.

You can edit the user dictionary:

  1. Click   → Settings → System.
  2. Open Language and region settings.
  3. In the Spell check section, click Custom dictionary.

  4. Edit the dictionary:

    1. In the upper-right corner of the screen, click Add.
    2. Enter the word.
    3. Click Add.

Translate images

Right-click the image and select Translate image in the context menu.

To translate the rest of the images:

  1. Hover over an image and then over the icon that appears.
  2. Click Translate.
If a page is translated automatically
  1. Hover over the image and then over the or icon that appears.
  2. Click Translate (or Translate text in 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 see the original image, use one of the following methods:

  • Hover over an image and then over the icon that appears. Click Translated.
  • Right-click the image and select Show original in the context menu.
  • Hover over the image and click  → Revert to original image.

To hide the translate button in all images, hover over any image and click  → Hide button.

Translation settings

Enable translation by default

If you want Yandex Browser to translate pages in a particular language without asking for permission:

  1. Open any page in the language you wish to enable translation for by default.
  2. Click   →  → Translate page into a different language.
  3. Enable the  Always translate from <language> into <language> option.
  4. Click Translate.
Disable translation by default
  1. Open any page in the language that you don't want the browser to translate.
  2. Click   →  → Never translate from <language>.
Enable translation by default
  1. Open any page in the language you want to re-enable translation for.
  2. Click   → and disable the Never translate from <language> option.
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:

  1. Click   → Settings → Tools.
  2. In the Translate section, disable the Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.

Problems with translation

The translator isn't working

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

  1. Click   → Settings → Tools.
  2. In the Translate section, make sure the following options are enabled:
    • Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.
    • Translate selected words and phrases.
    • Show the translate image button.

It's also possible that the page isn't translated because you chose not to translate it when viewing it previously. In this case:

  1. Right-click on the page.
  2. In the context menu, select Translate to English.
An image isn't translated

If the  icon appears on the image, it means it couldn't be translated. 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.