What workflow would allow me to quickly look up an ad hoc translation?
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So, this extension is a companion for years already and one of the first extnensions I am installing on most browsers, but recently I get more and more annoyed by the fact that id doesn't seem to offer any translation. Why? Until recently i just googled a word and in 8 out of 10 cases it showed me a translation with a couple of alternative meanings. However, I moved away from Google and big US tech in general. Currently I use Startpage as my default search engine in firefox and added a custom search engine, that sends a translation to Startpage by adding "in English" to the query, but I am not happy with this, because I often forget to enter the custom search engine word at the beginning and because Startpage only offers a single translation and no nuance.
Can I set up dictionaries in a way to also give me a simple translation for languages like German-to-English, English-to-German, Chinese-to-German/English, English/German-to-Chinese?
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@yexet29937
thank you for the feedback. But I don't get what you mean after reading multiple times.
are you referring to Dictionariez? Dictionariez essentially uses Wiktionary to look up when double clicking on words. It has nothing to do with Startpage, nor adding "in English" to the query.
Could you give me more details how the problem is? And screenshots when you are getting problems? -
Yes, was convoluted. Sorry for that.
The question boils down to:
Is there an option to translate anything that is not text on a website to a corresponding language?
Think of it like this: Dictionariez currently is to my understanding only a dictionary for definitions, which is very useful for reading text. But if you compile text, you have little use of such a dictionary that is completely in the target language. What you actually need is a dictionary with translations from your language to the target language.
So, what I am missing is a shortcut, that accesses an input method (e.g. think of a text field) where I can just enter a word I'd like to have translated and either automatically enters it to the place where I am compiling my text, automatically sends it to clipboard or gives me options to do so.
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@yexet29937
Aha, I think I got what you need. How about these translations tools?https://pnl.dev/tags/translation
You can add those translation tools to your Dictionariez. They are translators, so that you can translate sentence or paragraph, or a large chunk of text just like how you normally use dictionariez: select some text, then either:
- click on the app icon to open the translator in Dictionariez,
- use the rightclick contextmenu,
- use Ctrl+Shift+X (default shortcut to call up Dictionariez).
Seems you want German-English-Chinese ones?
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@yexet29937
Another thing is that Dictionariez has the translation feature in Pro, which when you select any text, you should see a little bubble comes up where you can find the translator icon there and it can translate the selected text to any language.
https://pnl.dev/topic/1041/introducing-translation-pro-instant-text-translation-in-dictionariez -
@yexet29937 said in What workflow would allow me to quickly look up an ad hoc translation?:
So, what I am missing is a shortcut, that accesses an input method (e.g. think of a text field) where I can just enter a word I'd like to have translated and either automatically enters it to the place where I am compiling my text, automatically sends it to clipboard or gives me options to do so.
And from what you describe here, you might be interested in this feature: https://pnl.dev/topic/952/introducing-help-me-refine-now-available-on-dictionariez-v5-4-0-enhance-your-writing-with-ai
Dictionariez provides a "Help me refine my writing" feature, comes very handy when you are writing something in a textarea or web editor. Please let me know if it's something that you are looking for. I have made this feature for quite a while now, but it seems nobody has been using it except me myself.
And tell me how can I improve it
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