Kagi Translate Feedback

goulot_situez Translate was unstable for a while, sorry about that. We are monitoring the situation again today.
RoxyRoxyRoxy Agreed that it's funky, we are going to get rid of it

My main use-case is translating between two languages in a given setting. Changing back and forth between those languages. E.g. German and English in a certain context, English and Spanish in another.

Now, let's say I translate Beispiel from German to English:

Next I enter an English sentence, it would be nice if Kagi could recognize the language and automatically switch them from English to German, instead of me having to click every time:

I don't see the use-case ever where one doesn't want the left upper to say 'English' when Kagi can recognize that it is English.

Or have that as an option in the settings.

Giorgio

from 2025-02-25. Japanese/
javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20selectedText=window.getSelection().toString().trim();window.location.href='https://translate.kagi.com/Japanese/'+(selectedText?'?text='+encodeURIComponent(selectedText):encodeURIComponent(window.location.href));%7D)();

But. this bookmarklet not work to 2025-02-26.

lghjb656 I believe I've captured your use case below, lmk if I've gotten smth wrong.

As you can see Translate is already able to switch between languages just fine, so long as you start with Detect Language selected (i.e. I wouldn't want to have selected Russian before pasting the text). The language that it says it detected doesn't change tho, that would be worth looking at to improve UI readability.
Also not sure if the line breaks not being copied from the output is a bug or an epic fail on my part, if bug that should be fixed too

RoxyRoxyRoxy thanks, but what I meant that it should swap them automatically if my input language text (on the left) is the language I have set on the right as output.

lghjb656 Ohhhhhhh, my bad
I agree, that's a feature I can see being useful!

Giorgio Fantastic, thanks

I'm right now translating a text from English to German. I changed the “formality” setting. However, the translation stays the same. The expected behavior is that the translation switches from "du" to "Sie".

RoxyRoxyRoxy thanks mate

Giorgio omg, thanks for the tip, also the features of alternative translation, text to speech, etc are available for pro users?

Ademalhanolu They are available to any Kagi user with an active paid subscription

Giorgio Yes, you can reproduce this with a simple sentence like "Can you please help me?".
It should translate to "Könnten Sie mir bitte helfen?" when switching to formal. That's one of the alternatives that is shown below, and Kagi Translate even gives an explanation why this alternative is actually better, but the translation itself does not change. And as you know, if I am translating a bit more, the alternatives do no longer show.

I can't get the URL translation to work through the text input box. The box template text says "Start typing a URL" but if I put one in there, the translation output box just displays, at best, a translation of the actual URL contents. The URL feature is also mentioned in the documentation.
I would have expected this to display the translated text of what's actually on the page, or at least redirect me to the translate.kagi.com/www.example.com version of the feature. Hope this helps

Japanese romaji are sometimes written incorrectly. I tried translating Japanese to English:

次の漫画巻読み始まりました

Kagi Translate displayed romaji: "Tsugi no manga-kan yomi hajimemashita"
The correct romaji is: "Tsugi no manga-kan yomi hajimarimashita"

The final word is wrong. This probably comes from the issue that the sentence is a bit weird, and it would be more natural to say "hajimemashita", so the AI assumed that. It should just spell romaji for what is written though, not what it thinks it should be.