Froze when speaking out other participants’ output
Hi there. I am Deaf and uses this for my chats with colleagues at work. My co-worker have the app installed and I have it installed on my iPad. Two problems that you need to note: 1) Fix the rotation issue so I can read it easily on the iPad. It wouldn’t rotate AT ALL. 2) My co-worker turned on “auto-play messages” so her iPhone will read out loud when I send a message. She also have the “Presentator mode” turned on as well — so she don’t have to press and hold the microphone button. It sure did read out loud pretty good, but the problem is that her app’s microphone froze for maybe 1 to 2 minutes unless I trigger an action like open keyboard and then close keyboard and then click on the Microphone again. It became a bit annoying and would be perfect if these issues are fixed! Thank you!
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Glitchy but good
For a minute the safari plugin was working fine. Then, they updated a month or so ago and the plugin is dead weight now. Also, the keyboard collapses when switching between languages in the type menu. This is really annoying. Editing type is practically impossible in the middle of the body. The first keystroke will place at the cursor but every consecutive keystroke is moved to the end of the text body. All in all, most of the translations are fairly accurate. As well, this is the only translator I could find to do Cantonese really well.
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Amazing
This app is amazing my French teacher read my work like it was fluent. When I tried google translate she noticed it was wrong. I even got full marks from this. I definitely loved it and it is great for work. Also there are no great restaurants in Wellington because they are too small. Great for cheating in tests. PRAISE THE LORD, AND BREAK THE LAW(in the test) and TAKE SOME MORE.
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Originally brilliant app on WP
Not many people will know but in Windows Phone 8.1, the Microsoft translator app was absolutely the best. Instant camera translations (no photo needs to be taken/button pressrd) it simply worked seamlessly and better than anything out there . The entire app ran quicker as well on a much much weaker hardware. Offline mode was perfect as well (side note offline maps were great too on WP 8.1). Of course Microsoft app isn’t designed to work best on iPhone, but just saying that most people wouldn’t know how good that app was on WP 8.1
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Still broken UX for translating images
Not sure why they don’t fix this. It’s been over a year and I’ve reported this bug several times. Repro: take screenshot > tap on preview image (iPhone X) > share > Microsoft translator > hangs trying to translate.
Since it hangs, there’s an option to tap to open the app, but if you do, it takes you to the camera mode! You still have to tap on images > choose album > look for image > select > translate.
This is the worst UX for translating an image. Why not just open to translate? Why not swipe sideways to toggle through photo album? Why the hang when taping the share to ms translator? Why? Why? Why???? Are there any product designers actually working in this team? This is unacceptable. Great technology, but lousy execution and UX. No dedication or love from the product builders.
Since it hangs, there’s an option to tap to open the app, but if you do, it takes you to the camera mode! You still have to tap on images > choose album > look for image > select > translate.
This is the worst UX for translating an image. Why not just open to translate? Why not swipe sideways to toggle through photo album? Why the hang when taping the share to ms translator? Why? Why? Why???? Are there any product designers actually working in this team? This is unacceptable. Great technology, but lousy execution and UX. No dedication or love from the product builders.
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Hasn’t been working as well lately
This app is how I have survived two years in China. However I’m not sure how I will survive my third year as the app is not working as well lately. The picture part usually always translated typed text but now it is almost never working. It usually says “hum can’t translate that” this is very frustrating as I use the photo translate A LOT for menus and signs. I deeply regret updating the app as this is what has caused it to stop working. Whatever you did to “fix” the bugs instead caused them please remedy this; I’m really struggling in China now!!
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Camera feature doesn’t work anymore
This was my go to translator app because I was able to take a picture and have it translated for me. But recently it stopped working. I always translated Spanish to English because my husband’s family all speak Spanish because they’re from Ecuador. It was a great way for me to translate messages. But now when I click on Spanish to English and take a picture it goes back to English translating English which obviously does me no good. I’ve uninstalled it and reinstalled it I even tried to put Spanish to Spanish just to see what it would do and it goes back to English. So they get one star for me until they fix the camera because that’s the only way I can use the translator
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My lifesaver
I should have known earlier that this translator had Cantonese because searching for a working Cantonese translator online with pronunciations is certainly very difficult to do, mainly because Cantonese is not spoken very much. Being a millennial, learning Cantonese is difficult, mainly because where I live in the US, no one teaches it and Mandarin is usually preferred and Google translate had Cantonese input, which for me is somewhat surprising, but there wasn't a reverse function so I couldn't type in English to them hear the spoken words. Now that I have this, I can reduce the language barrier between my relatives who only speak Cantonese.
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Disappointed
I’ve had this app for a few months now and up until yesterday it was working fine with absolutely no problems. I would’ve given it five stars but it’s stopped translating words in photos. Maybe that wouldn’t be such a problem if I could copy & paste words from photos that I take or from certain apps but that’s not possible. The photo translation feature was one that I heavily relied on. Microsoft, please fix this as soon as possible.
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Better than Google Translator
I moved to Switzerland and I used to use google translator for everything since it had image translation feature that came very handy when in restaurants, or in streets. However, after using Microsoft translator, I never went back to Google app. First off, MS translator does much better job of pronouncing the words or a phrase by slowing it down for each retry. Secondly, when translating through image capture, it puts the words in the original image. Google and other translators bunch them all up in an unformatted paragraph which make it unclear where a sentence ends or starts. Very nice work by MS. The only improvement I would recommend is to have the landscape feature work. Currently, everything must be in portrait.
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