Translating dialogs
Dialog mode lets you communicate with anyone who speaks another language.
Note
Some devices may not support some of the languages listed below.
Supported languages
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Azerbaijani English Amharic Arabic Armenian Burmese Bulgarian Hungarian Vietnamese Greek Georgian Danish Hebrew Indonesian Spanish Italian |
Icelandic Chinese Korean Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian Malay German Nepali Dutch Norwegian Farsi Polish Portuguese Romanian |
Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Tagalog Thai Turkish Ukrainian Finnish French Hindi Croatian Czech Swedish Estonian Japanese |
Tips for using the dialog mode:
- Show the welcome screen to the person you're going to talk to and tell them how to use dialog mode.
- Tap the flag icon of the language you're going to use before each phrase.
- Speak using the language that corresponds to the flag icon you selected.
- Try to speak in short sentences.
- Speak loudly and in a steady voice, don't make long pauses.
- Hold the microphone close to the sound source.
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1 — Your phrase. |
To communicate in dialog mode, do the following:
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Tap
at the bottom of the screen. -
Configure access permissions.
When launching dialog mode for the first time, you'll see the buttons Allow microphone access and Allow speech recognition on the welcome screen. Tap either of them to open the app settings and then enable the Microphone and Speech recognition. If the buttons don't appear at the initial launch, it means you already allowed the app to access your mic and perform speech recognition.
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SelSelect the languages you and the other user will be communicating in.
To change a language, tap
below it. -
To start a dialog, tap the flag icon of the language you're going to use and speak. You'll see the translation on the screen.
The recording will stop automatically. To stop recording your speech manually, tap the flag icon again.
Phrases in your native tongue are displayed in a smaller font, while phrases in the target language are displayed in a larger font. To swap languages, tap
on the language selection screen.
Here is what you can do with your phrases:
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Action |
Execution sequence |
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Use text-to-speech |
Tap |
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Change the original phrase |
Swipe the phrase to the left and tap Correct. |
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Delete a phrase |
Swipe the phrase to the left and tap Delete. |
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Automatic text-to-speech |
Tap |
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Delete dialog |
Tap |
next to the phrase you want to hear. The recording of the phrase will stop playing automatically. To stop it manually, tap the icon again.
in the upper right corner of the screen and enable the Auto text-to-speech option.