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Brilliant. Thank you for developing this app!

This app has been a fantastic help to my family and I. My parents are elderly and they live in Spain and don’t speak Spanish. My Mum was very I’ll and I used the app to easily translate her medical documents and to converse with doctors. It was also very useful when she lost her handbag.
Without this, I don’t know what I would’ve done. Thank you!
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Disappointed

I'm disappointed with the translation accuracy of the Apple translator app. It doesn't capture voice as accurately as other third-party translator apps in the market. There's a lot of room for improvement. In contrast, the Google Translate app performs much better. I hope Apple addresses these issues and works to enhance the performance of their translator app.
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Horrible

Extreme waste of space application. Completely unusable.

Confirmed by an Italian

This app has been helping me speak Italian while I use Duolingo to learn it. If I want to say something but haven’t learned one of the words yet I will put in the English and then see the translation, but if something seems contrary to what I’ve learned in Duolingo or have questions I will confer with my Italian friend. Not once has she told me the translation was wrong. In fact she explains why it’s correct even if it doesn’t make sense to me.

I’m surprised by all the low star reviews here. Especially the one that complained that his translation of tofu in Korean came back as bean curd… ya know, considering tofu is… bean curd. 🙄

Maybe we shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds us, it’s not even a paid app. And as far as languages go, when I wanted to learn Arabic Duolingo didn’t offer it, but I didn’t write them a bad review, I submitted a request for it. About a year later they had it available and I was thrilled. Don’t be afraid to ask for what you want, rather than complain about it.
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Doesn’t work at all

Removed app. Reinstalled it. Doesn’t work at all.

No “Play Translation “ Option

After the iOS 17 update there is no longer an option to “play translation” automatically on the “Translation” tab at the bottom.
The “play translation “ option is only available during a conversation using the “Conversation” tab at the bottom.

Please add the option to play translation when you’re using the “Translation “ tab.
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Look under

This game literally stopped my heartbeat for a second! I did not know that I was pronouncing a English word wrong…(even though I know English) I was translating it to Japanese. In the first place I was trying to say a Japanese word for lawyer And then it beeped I think I said Japanese bad word. It sent a chill up my spine when it crossed the heart My heart stopped beating… and I got really scared to use this again…(it was an auto reaction to press it multiple times too) I only use this app three times after… I just test my Japanese from Duolingo… Duolingo is way better. Even though it doesn’t teach you the words you want to know it is way better anyway… You got me really scared. Why I gave 3 stars… that’s how good it used to be😒😕
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Ok

I think this app is ok there's not much wrong sometimes I'll try to play roblox and there I'd spanish people and I use this half of the time they don't even know I speak English. there is not a lot of language options though, and talking in person with this DOES NOT WORK so I don't really recommend this app but it's not super bad.
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By biggest problem with this app is

Ok so my biggest issue with this app and basically any of the translation apps is they never give u the different options. Like with Spanish. U select Spanish but they only give you the “Spain” Spanish..not the Mexico Spanish. And if u know any Spanish at all you know that that actually is a HUGE issue.. being as the two aren’t the same. So u could say somethin in Spain Spanish and it not mean anything at all or is off.. it’s really annoying and honestly I don’t understand why the people who make the app like the ppl who speak the language they are adding doesn’t say anything or whatever to make the creator’s actually add the correct things.. I mean y’all put all this time into making the app and all the languages right? So why in the world would u basically cut it short by being lazy and not adding the ‘Mexico’ one.. it’s just really annoying and if they actually did that they’d get 5 stars..I’m being nice with the 2 stars I voted.. that’s how big of a deal that actually is and I’m not sure why no one has fixed that.. I mean I can’t be the only one who has a problem with that.. so if they don’t add that soon I’ll likely delete the app for snothoer. The only reason I’ve got this app is cuz it came on the phone wen I bought the phone from Verizon. So I figured it’d likely be the best one I could get BUT, CLEARLY I’m wrong cuz there’s better ones out there and there’s a good chance I’ll delete this one for another
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Persian (Farsi) has 150 million speakers but Farsi is not there how pathetic!

Persian also known as Farsi, Dari, Tajiki and Hazaragi spoken in 5 countries around the world which has around 150 million native speaker is not there only a few languages are there for Apple is a big shame and pathetic. When I first saw this app I was very happy oh finally Apple has created a translate app for IOS users but finding out Persian is not there made me really sad. You can do better Apple.
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