Translate

Yandex Browser's built-in translator can translate everything you need: text, image captions, sites, and documents.

Yandex Translate windows

In this mode, you can translate text, image, site, or a video on the current tab.

Yandex Browser will prompt you to translate the page if its language is different from your interface language. You can access Yandex Translate or translate specific words, images or videos using the context menu.

In this mode, Yandex Translate opens in a separate tab.

It works in a chat format: you send a request to translate some text, image, site, or document, and get a translation in response.

How to access Yandex Translate:

  1. Open a new tab.

  2. Under the SmartBox, select Translator.

    If there's no Translator button

    Make sure the option is enabled in the settings:

    1. Click  → Settings.

    2. Go to Interface → New tab page view and enable the option Neural tools.

    3. Go to Tools → Neural tools and enable the option Show the Editor, Translator, and Summarizer buttons on the new tab screen.

View translation history

You can find your translation history on the left side of the screen when you open Yandex Translate in tab view. There you can find past translations by keyword, language, or file type.

To delete a translation, find it in the history and select Delete from the drop-down menu.

Pages

Yandex Browser automatically detects the language of the loaded page. If it's different from the interface language, Yandex Browser asks if you want to translate it. You can also open the translation window by clicking  or  → Translate page.

Restriction

If Yandex Browser language is Chinese, Japanese, or Kazakh, the translation icon doesn't appear.

  • To translate the page text to the Yandex Browser interface language, click Translate in the window. To display the page text in the original language again, click Show original in the window.

  • If you want to translate a page into a different foreign language, choose the language manually by clicking  → Translate page into a different language in the window.

    If you translated a page into a language and then changed the translation language, the images will automatically be translated into the new language.

  • To see the original text of the translated page, hover over a sentence. The original text appears in a pop-up window.

    If the pop-up with text doesn't appear:

    1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

    2. In the Translate section, enable the Display pop-ups with original text option.

  1. Open a new tab → Translator.

  2. Enter the site URL in the box.

  3. Above the input line, select the translation language → tap  . Yandex Translate will provide the result as a link.

  4. Tap the link to open the translated site in a new tab.

Words and phrases

The Browser can translate separate words and sentences on the page to English. To see the translation of a word or phrase, select it and click Translate in the context menu. A pop-up with the translation will appear on the page.

To change the language, click and select the one you need.

To copy the text, click .

If the translator doesn't work

The translator is enabled in the Browser by default. Make sure that you haven't turned it off manually:

  1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

  2. In the Translate section, make sure the following options are enabled:

    • Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface;

    • Translate selected words and phrases;

    • Show the translate image button.

  1. Open a new tab → Translator.

  2. Type a word or phrase in the box.

  3. Select the target language above the box → click  .

To copy the text, click .

To rate the translation, click or .

Translate images

One image

Right-click the image and select Translate image in the context menu.

To translate the rest of the images:

  1. Hover over an image and then over the panel that appears.

  2. Click  → Translate image.

Note

If an image is small, the translate button isn't shown. Right-click the image and select Translate image in the context menu.

To hide the translate button in all images, hover over any image and click  → Hide button.

You can always restore the translate button later. To do this, right-click an image and select Translate image or Show original in the context menu.

Note

If you want to restore the translate button immediately after hiding it, refresh the page to see the panel.

View the original image

To see the original image, use one of the following methods:

  • Hover your mouse cursor over an image and then over the panel that appears. Click Show original.

  • Right-click the image and select Show original in the context menu.

  • Hover over an image and click  → Show original.

If the image won't translate

You'll see the icon on the image if the translation failed. The translator can't recognize images that aren't clear enough and text that's cursive or handwritten.

If an image is small (such as a button with text on it), the translation may be hidden. Hover over the image to see it.

If the translator doesn't work

The translator is enabled in the Browser by default. Make sure that you haven't turned it off manually:

  1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

  2. In the Translate section, make sure the following options are enabled:

    • Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.

    • Translate selected words and phrases.

    • Show the translate image button.

  1. Open a new tab → Translator.

  2. Select the target language above the box.

  3. You can drag an image to the Translator tab or click  to upload one from your device.

The window will display the image with the translation over the original text. Select an action:

  • Click  to save the translated image.

  • Click  or to rate the translation.

  • Under the image, select Original to view the original version.

All images

  1. Translate a page automatically or manually.

  2. In the Page translated into <language> window that opens, click Translate all images.

Note

If there are no images with text in them on the site, the window doesn't open.

To display the page text and images in the original language again, click Show original in the window.

Translation of documents

Yandex Browser can translate DOC, DOCX, and PDF documents, XLS and XLSX spreadsheets, and PPT and PPTX presentations.

How to translate a document:

  1. Open a new tab → Translator.

  2. Select the target language above the box.

  3. You can drag a document to the Translator tab, paste the link, or click  to upload one from your device.

    Restriction

    You can upload a file up to 15 MB in size.

To view the translated document, click Preview.

Check spelling in a foreign language

Yandex Browser checks spelling in input forms. For example, when you work with mail.

Enable a spellchecker using a built-in dictionary

  1. Click  → Settings → System.

  2. Open Language and region settings.

  3. In the Spell check section, click Add language.

  4. On the left side of the Languages window, select the language.

    Note

    If the language you need is not on the list, go back to Language and region settings. In the Page display language section, click Add language and select the language from the full list of languages supported by Yandex Browser.

Add a word to the user dictionary

When you enter text, Yandex Browser underlines unfamiliar words. If you are sure the underlined word is spelled correctly, right-click it and select Add to dictionary.

You can edit the user dictionary:

  1. Click  → Settings → System.

  2. Open Language and region settings.

  3. In the Spell check section, click Custom dictionary.

  4. Edit the dictionary:

    4.1. In the upper-right corner of the screen, click Add.

    4.2. Enter a word.

    4.3. Tap Add.

    4.1. Hover your mouse cursor over the word.

    4.2. On the right, click Delete.

Translation settings

Enable translation by default

If you want Yandex Browser to translate pages in a particular language without asking for permission:

  1. Open any page in the language you wish to enable translation for by default.

  2. Click   →  → Translate page into a different language.

  3. Enable the Always translate from <language> into <language> option.

  4. Click Translate.

Disable translation by default

  1. Open any page in the language that you don't want the Browser to translate.

  2. Click   →  → Never translate <language name>.

  1. Click  → Settings → System.

  2. Open Language and region settings.

  3. Under Page display language, remove the selected language.

Enable translation by default

  1. Open any page in the language you wish to re-enable translation for.

  2. Click   → and disable the Never translate <language name> option.

  1. Click  → Settings → System.

  2. Open Language and region settings.

  3. Under Page display language, click Add language.

  4. Select the language from the full list of languages supported by Yandex Browser.

Improve page language detection

1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

2. Make sure that the Send text snippets to Yandex to improve translation quality option is selected under Translate.

Turn translation off

If you don't want Yandex Browser to offer to translate pages in a foreign language:

  1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

  2. In the Translate section, disable Offer to translate pages that aren't in the same language as the interface.

  1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

  2. In the Translate section, disable Translate selected words and phrases and Translate a word by pointing the cursor at it and pressing the Shift key.

  1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

  2. In the Translate section, disable Show the translate image button.

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