Translation of pages, images, and videos

The built-in translator shows words and phrases in the language used in the Yandex Browser interface. It can also recognize text in images and provides translation over the source text. In addition, Yandex Browser can translate videos into Russian and Kazakh. Watch videos in your native language with the dubbing feature.

Translate pages, words, and phrases

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 the browser language is Chinese, Japanese, or Kazakh, the translation icon does not 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.

    Note

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

    1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

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

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 in the context menu.

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 requirements.

  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 requirements.

  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. Click Add.

    4.1. Hover your mouse cursor over the word.

    4.2. On the right, click Delete.

Translate images

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.

If a page is translated automatically

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

  • Hover 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.

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.

  1. Translate a page automatically or manually.

  2. In the Page translated into 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.

Video translation and voiceover

Yandex Browser can translate videos:

  • Into Russian: from English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

  • Into Kazakh: from Russian and English.

The app dubs the video with a male or female voice, depending on who's speaking in the original video.

Restriction

The technology is still under development, so not all videos are translated at the moment.

To watch a video in Russian or Kazakh:

  1. Hover over the video.

  2. Click Translate and dub or . The video will be voiced in your language.

If the video language wasn't detected or was detected incorrectly:

  1. Hover over the video.

  2. Click  at the top.

  3. In the Translate video section, select the desired language. Yandex Browser will remember your choice and translate into that language.

Video translation may take some time. You'll receive a pop-up notification when everything is ready.

If you're watching a translated video, you can adjust the volume of the original audio:

  1. Hover over the video.

  2. Click .

  3. Set the desired volume level using the Original volume slider.

If you want to watch the video in its original language, click Turn off translation or .

Live videos

Yandex Browser can translate live videos (livestreams and live broadcasts). On YouTube, you can watch livestreams in Russian in real time.

Unlike recorded videos, where the neural network gets the entire audio track at once, livestreaming requires it to work on the fly, like a simultaneous interpreter. Speech recognition and voice-over take time, so the translation appears after a few seconds, not immediately at the very beginning of the livestream.

Subtitles

Restriction

Subtitles are currently available only for YouTube videos.

Yandex Browser supports subtitles for all videos that it can translate. You can select subtitles in the original language, target language, and for videos in Russian. To enable and configure subtitles:

  1. Hover over the video.

  2. Click  or Subtitles. If the icon is missing, click and enable the Subtitles option.

  3. Configure the subtitles:

    • Language: Select the original or target language. If the video already has subtitles, you can select the service's subtitles instead of Yandex ones.

    • Highlight words: The words that are currently being spoken are highlighted. This can be useful for language learners and karaoke enthusiasts. The option is only available for subtitles in the original language.

    • Style: You can choose the font size, adjust the transparency of the subtitle background, and enable the Scale automatically option. When this option is enabled, the subtitle size adjusts to the size of the video window.

Note

To look up the translation of a word in the subtitles, simply click it. The video will pause, and the translation of the word and phrase will appear in a pop-up window. To continue watching, click anywhere inside the video window.

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 into 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 .

  1. Click  → Settings → System requirements.

  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 option.

  1. Click  → Settings → System requirements.

  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.

  1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

  2. In the Translate section, disable Show the "Translate video" button.

Problems with translation

Translation 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.

It's also possible that the page isn't translated because you chose not to translate it when viewing it previously. In this case:

  1. Right-click on the page.

  2. In the context menu, select Translate to Russian.

An image isn't translated

If the  icon appears on the image, it means it couldn't be translated. 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.

A video isn't translated

Try to solve the problem in one of the following ways:

  • Check your Yandex Browser settings:

    1. Click  → Settings → Tools.

    2. In the Translate section, make sure Show the "Translate video" button is enabled.

  • For the translator to work correctly, you need the latest version of Yandex Browser.

    1. To find out what version you're using, click  → Help → About Yandex Browser.

    2. If an update is available, you'll see the Update button on the page. Click it and wait for Yandex Browser to update. It usually takes no more than a minute.

  • Restart Yandex Browser. Click  → Advanced → Close Yandex Browser or press Ctrl + Shift + Q, then open the browser again.

  • Disable the extension that blocks translation:

    1. Click → Extensions and disable all extensions.

    2. Restart the Browser: close it with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Q (on Windows and Linux) or ⌘+ Q (in macOS), then open it again.

    3. Clear the cache so that a previously saved copy of the page is not loaded into the Browser.

    4. If the problem has disappeared, search through the extension that causes it. Restart the Browser every time.

    5. Disable this extension. You can also write to its developers about the problem.

No notification when video translation is complete

Check if the notification is enabled:

  1. Press → Settings → Sites.

  2. In the Notifications section, click From Yandex services.

  3. In the In Yandex Browser tab, enable the Video translation option.

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