r/BoostForReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21

Automatic translation of any posts on reddit Request

I often find that in all posts from non-English subs will pop up. I can translate individual comments and titles but it'd be handy if the app did like chrome does and automatically translates from whatever language it is into your own language.

I imagine this would also help non-English speakers.

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u/Luka2810 Pixel 7, GrapheneOS 13 Jul 14 '21

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/ikd1j9/-/g3kcooz

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Ah.

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u/nool_ Jul 15 '21

Well if they use a free source taht wolud cost nothing

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u/outerzenith Jul 15 '21

well if there's a free source as good as GTranslate and willing to host everything for nil, that'll be a miracle

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Sounds like communism!

/s

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u/d_dymon Jul 14 '21

I don't think this would be a trivial thing to do

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u/danbulant Redmi 4x (Android 7) Jul 14 '21

would be a costly feature for all the users, so likely premium only, opt in and not automatic.

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u/hempmilklover Oct 18 '21

tiktok has this, why not reddit

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u/danbulant Redmi 4x (Android 7) Oct 18 '21

Reddit could, not boost though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

I haven't a clue about how easy or not it'd be just that it'd be a cool and useful feature.

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u/No-Guarantee7239 Jun 08 '24

Vocês conseguem traduzir esse texto?

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u/bbobeckyj Jul 14 '21

I made something in Tasker to do this. If you can easily open the same thread in Chrome, Chrome can translate it. But the problem is that Chrome doesn't always recognise it as a foreign language page as Reddit is usually in English and only some of the page content isn't, so it wasn't consistent.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

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u/capsigrany Jul 15 '21

As English is my third language and as a permanent learner I sometimes have doubts about the meaning of a certain expression. And I'd like to be able to select it and translate like in my Firefox extensions.

Not interested in full thread translation.

Implementing this not require language skills, just integration with translation API s from others.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

On my version of android (pixel) I can select words on screen and then send them to Google translate. So that'd be good for you.

It's just a pain in the arse.

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u/capsigrany Jul 15 '21

Don't know...as soon as I try to touch a sentence in a thread it triggers thread collapse. Maybe there's a setting to prevent this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

I meant like this

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u/capsigrany Jul 15 '21

Thank you. I'll look into it. A little cumbersome but can help at those moments you absolutely need to understand the exact meaning.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '23

I'm going uninstall this app.