Chinese voice translator

How does the Chinese voice translator work?

Press Speak and talk in Mandarin. Each sentence you say is written in Chinese characters with the pinyin over every word in tone colours, and its English appears under it. Tap or hover any word for its own meaning. Press Speak again to stop, then copy the Chinese and English together.

Does it translate English into Chinese?

It translates spoken Mandarin into English: it is made for understanding Chinese, so you see what was said, how each word is pronounced and what it means. To say something in Chinese, look the words up in our dictionary or type them into the pinyin converter to hear them.

How good is the English?

Each sentence is translated by Claude, Anthropic’s model, for what it means rather than word by word, so idioms and slang come out natural. It is a model’s reading, so it is shown apart from the words: the meaning of each word under your finger comes from our own dictionary.

Which browsers can it listen in?

Any browser with a microphone, on a computer or a phone. Chrome, Edge and Safari use their own speech recognition; in Firefox and other browsers our server listens, 3 minutes a day without an account and 30 with a free one.

Where does my voice go?

To your browser’s speech service: Chrome sends it to Google and Edge to Microsoft to be recognised; Safari uses Apple’s. We receive only the text it heard, to add the pinyin and the English, and keep only each sentence’s English, by its text and never by who said it, so a sentence is translated once. In Firefox and other browsers without speech recognition, the sound comes to our server instead, where Cloudflare’s Whisper writes it out, and the sound is not kept.

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