Translate

Yandex Browser for mobile automatically detects the language of the loaded page and can translate it into or another language of your choice. The translator can recognize text in images and show the translation on top of the original text.

Pages

Yandex Browser can translate a site page.

To translate a page from a foreign language into Russian, to the right of the SmartBox, tap → Translate page.

The icon will appear to the right of the SmartBox, and above it, you'll see a translation panel showing the progress.

Change translation language

To translate a page into the language of your choice, select the language you need from the list in the translation panel.

Note

If automatic image translation is enabled in the settings, images are also translated into the new target language. If automatic image translation is disabled, after you change the translation language, tap  on the translation bar.

To return to the page in the original language:

In the SmartBox

To the right of the SmartBox, click .

From the translation bar

Tap on the right of the translation bar.

From the page menu

Tap → Show original.

Words and phrases

The browser translates individual words and sentences into Russian. To see the translation of a word or phrase:

1. Select them in the text.

2. On the toolbar that appears, tap → Translate.

Translate images

One image

1. Tap and hold the image.

2. In the context menu, select Translate image. The translation appears on top of the original image.

View original image

1. Tap and hold the image.

2. In the context menu, select Show original.

An image isn't translated

Image text can't be translated if:

• The image isn't clear enough.

• The text is handwritten or cursive.

• The image is too small.

All images

• If Automatic image translation is enabled in the settings, you can simply translate the page.

• If the Automatic image translation option is disabled, tap the icon in the translation panel above the SmartBox.

To see the original image text, tap . To see the page and the images in their original language, tap  on the translation bar.

Enable automatic image translation

If you want the browser to translate images automatically when it translates a page:

1. Tap → → Yandex Translate.

2. Enable Automatic image translation.

Translate subtitles

Yandex Browser supports subtitles for all videos that it can translate. Use it to:

• Automatically create and translate subtitles for videos in 8 languages.
• Translate existing subtitles from over 90 languages.

To enable and configure subtitles:

1. In the video, tap .

2. To configure subtitles, tap  and select:

   • Subtitle language: Select the original language or translation. 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. The option is only available for Yandex subtitles in the original language.

Can’t turn on subtitles with video translation

1. Tap → → Translate → Translate videos and subtitles and Untranslated subtitles.

2. In the video, enable and configure subtitles.

If you're watching a video in fullscreen mode or on top of other apps (picture-in-picture), subtitles aren't available. To enable and configure subtitles, return to normal mode. Then you can reopen the video in fullscreen or on top of apps.

How to enable untranslated subtitles

1. Next to the translation icon, tap .

2. Enable Subtitles.

3. In the Language field, select the original language. If the platform has its own subtitles, you can also select them.

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