Kagi Translate Feedback

Vlad

We'd love your feedback!

KamilKurde

Vlad Any chance of adding language search to the dropdown?
It takes some scrolling to get to the languages that are near the end of the list

Both deepl and google translate have search in language selection dialog

Kidlike

Vlad So recently Google removed their ability to do full page translations with the google translate chrome plugin. This feature included dynamically added content via Javascript. It was awesome for reading news in foreign languages. I wish Kagi had a translate browser plugin that would be able to do this, it would be really cool 🙂

kdh8219

Vlad https://translate.kagi.com/English/Japanese/https://ip.wtf

duckdealer

Vlad I'm trying to use the example from the Kagi Help page for Kagi Translate. It gives the example https://translate.kagi.com/?text=kagi&source=Japanese&target=English for creating bangs. I might be missing something, but is there a way to make it so if I set the bang to say !ja it goes to translate.kagi.com when given Japanese text? Then if a URL is given it goes to translate.kagi.com/theURLgiven .

Or is there a translate bang already that I didn't see?

Thanks!

nichu42

Love it! I'd be ready to say goodbye to DeepL (and pay more to Kagi) if you'd add word suggestions / replacements and apps / browser extension.

Kate-Karui

I appreciate the efforts put into developing this translation tool. However, I've noticed that it struggles with translating even small sentences, particularly in Japanese.
which limits its usefulness for me. I hope future updates will enhance its ability to handle both small and larger texts effectively. I plan to revisit and test it periodically to see how it improves over time. Thank you for your ongoing work on this amazing search engine.

Vlad

Kate-Karui It is not a struggle, it is a bug 🙂 we will look into it, thanks for reporting.

Vlad

Kate-Karui This is fixed now, thanks!

christophe

Cool!
Is it possible to send GET parameters (source lang, destination lang, string to translate), so one can use tools such as Alfred to land directly on the translation?

Vlad

christophe Yes! https://translate.kagi.com/?text=foobar

It will used your last used language as target.

We can add params for source/target if needed.

Vlad

KamilKurde Yes we can definetely do that. You can already find languages by starting to type it.

Vlad

We are planning to add automatic translation as you type (for paid Kagi users).

SonephetR2

Vlad How about the less resource-intensive approach of translating strings when a sentence-ending punctation (/!?;./) is typed? As-you-type translation really bugs me because I see so much nonsense appearing on the side as I gradually form a grammatically correct input.

larke12

Would be great if there was an easy way to jump to the translation page from search, having the option to replace Google Translate as the default for !trans* commands would be a nice touch.

dotdashdot

It seems like it doesn't like to translate certain texts, it seems like there's some failsafe like some LLMs have.

Edit:
The full text can be found here:

Vlad

dotdashdot Thanks for reporting this. What is the full text?

dotdashdot

Vlad Just edited to add the full text

Vlad

Kidlike Yes we can add this to our extension. Orion browser will have it natively.

christophe

Vlad source/target params would be great!

Vlad

Vlad
I stand corrected you can use full query params with langauge:

https://translate.kagi.com/?text=kagi&source=Japanese&target=English

permafrosticvm

Vlad this will finally replace my gtr search shorthand to throw whatever I want to see translated to Google Translate. I'm so thankful for Kagi to exist!

bert

Would be great to have the translation automatically refresh when changing either language, instead of needing to click the Translate button.

Also would be nice to have multiple translations. Google translate gives you several translations of “lead” — (there's the metal, “to lead”, “lead actor”, and many others) whereas Kagi just gives you a single translation based on the most probable word (according to the LLM), in this case the metal.

Vlad

bert See here https://kagifeedback.org/d/5305-kagi-translate-feedback/9

klockowaty

It would be great to be able to see alternative words or whole sentences. In the screenshot an example.

Nawaf

klockowaty i agree, it would be amazing to have:

Alternative words for selected word (in both languages)
Synonyms & Antonyms for selected word (in both languages)
Definition for selected word (in both languages)
Alternative sentences (in translated language)