Google Translate

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “open the image in Google translate (mobile). Let it detect the text THEN we copy/paste it into a new document”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “shout out to the new Google Translate practice feature - it generates sentences around a theme you specify and speaks them to you at varying speeds in your native and learning languages”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “I plugged the tweet text into Google Translate and it looked just fine.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-30

• “the website is very resistant to automatic translation by Google Translate”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-26

• “The neural Google Translate, while still far from perfect, was suddenly useful for some purposes.”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-06

• “a little bit of google translate, it was awesome and I learnt a lot”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-27

• “Google Translate is still so much worse than even free ChatGPT at translating that it is unusable for anything you want to put out and have it seem at least somewhat professional”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-22

• “laboriously screenshot (since you can't select text in most delivery apps on iOS) then open the screenshot in Google Translate. This only gets you one screen's worth of translations making browsing too arduous”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “some of the Chinese names are hilarious/really cool when you Google translate will pop my phone out sometimes to translate and it makes me jealous the kind of creative stuff their alphabet allows them to use for in game names”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-04-23

• “I swear at Google Translate engineers daily because I do a "swap the active pair of languages and then quickly launch the camera mode" combo _very_ frequently, and the selected pair of languages isn't actually updated _until the animation finishes_. It's maddening.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “Google Translate turning "I'm sorry, can you repeat that in English?" as "Excusez-moi, pouvez-vous répéter cela en français?"”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-04

• “you will be surprised how insane those speeches sound if you are not able to understand English and rely on Google Translate to understand the context”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-03

• “the llm version i posted earlier is much more context-aware than the google translate one”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “Google Translate / ChatGPT / similar tools return plain text, leaving you to reflow fonts, tables, and slides, which often takes longer than the translation itself”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-10

• “Switching to a Google Translate tab every time or asking an AI to translate broke my flow completely.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-07

• “If I had instead tried to translate with Google Translate, I get "Universalkoppling", which (from what I can see) is a type of screw.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-05

• “how bad Google Translate is at this by quoting the Chinese output, someone has missed the point and replied to tell me the output is so bad as to be almost incomprehensible”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-26

• “the best I've found is using Google Translate via camera/images”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-19

• “I was amazing people by showing them the same feature in Google Translate”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-18

• “It worked if I let the TV listen to Google Translate speaking it, so the problem was my pronunciation rather than Google Translate not translating correctly.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-12

• “Gone are the days of just barely being able to discern the meaning of Google Translate”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-18

• “With our hands and feet and a bit of Google Translate, I got to tell them my story”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-13

• “I do still use google translate though. When my phone is offline, or translating very long text.”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-09

• “I have seen Google Translate hallucinate exactly zero times over thousands of queries over the years”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-12-09

• “checking in Google Translate the pronunciation it plays "fuksia", while Wikipedia has the right version”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-09