Use Google Translate On Your Desktop With pyGtranslator

By , Published October 7, 2009

pyGtranslator is a desktop application that utilizes Google Translate and lets you translate €“ from your desktop! Nice!

Simple paste your text, select the €œto€ and €œfrom€ language and hit translate.



Of course, translations are only as good as the math behind the translators, but Google Translate has a pretty good track record over similar services from other companies. I've found it particularly good with Swedish.

Download

Available in spectacular .deb form over on getdeb.net @ http://www.getdeb.net/app/pyGtranslator

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Mohan

    Nice, app!

  • Anonymous

    have you tried freespeak?
    it has google translate, yahoo (babelfish probably?) and freetranslation (or something like that)
    it’s in the repos, karmic at least

    • http://twitter.com/kinesthesia kinesthesia

      It’s in Jaunty, too. ^^

      With this program you can translate text, web pages and request suggestions using online translation engines. Currently supported translators are Google, Yahoo, Open-Tran and FreeTranslation. Features include tabbed consulting, automatically copy and paste from/to clipboard, expandible in a very easy way by writing translator modules, easy to use and to configure, localized (currently English, Italian), good integration with free desktop environments (mostly in GNOME).

      • John

        Now THAT is a great app, thanks for the tip :)

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        Thanks for the tip guys – i’ll have to try it out!

        • John

          It isn’t actually as good as I first thought – if there are any accents on your letters the text goes all garbled.

          • Anonymous

            yeah i just saw that, it fails on greek as well :S

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    nice app but the name sucks, why do people wanna know its programmed in python

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Haha yes, i somewhat wonder that myself…

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    the “auto detect” language doesn’t work, any one else have this bug

  • mrjack

    Handy application.

    GnomeDo’s translate plugin can also do miracles in translation.
    Just select text and type the command.
    It is also using web and using google translate.