Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: website URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: Description of need: Comments from users to identify species are regionally relevant, and generally in the local language, would there be a way to enable an automated translation? Featur…

FWIW, my understanding is that implementing this is mostly a resource issue (I believe we would have to pay for this service, in addition adding it to our code), but it’s something I think the iNat team would like to do.

But you can do it now with your browser, just click right mb and choose “translate”.

It rather depends on the browser (I don’t have such option, but have to copy and paste into translator), and on mobile version there is even no possibiity to copy text from a comment - at least in my app it is not possible.

For now, using a web browser https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/

Nice, I did not find it earlier! Thank you @tiwane for the explanation, it would be amazing if possible, but I guess that’s the case of many features!

I agree that there are workarounds (which I currently use) but an embedded, in-line translator similar to what Facebook and Twitter have would be ideal.

Facebook translator is awful, not once it translated something so it’d become readable, is it possible to get something closer to google transator?

True, there are workarounds! The one embedded on FB or Twitter is not prefect, but it gives an idea, and we can use better tools that take a bit longer if we need a perfect translation @marina_gorbunova

It depends very much which pair of languages you are working with. If English is one, the translations are better because there is lots of back to back translation available online for machine translation. South Africans battle with translations to or from Afrikaans as there is not much online. All …

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jdmore February 1, 2023, 5:48am 3

Also note some previous discussion here. It’s been on the radar for a while.

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