

Head to the official GitHub page, and download the Trained Data for the language that you want, e.g. Crow Translate supports OCR (optical character recognition), and requires Tesseract's Tessdata language files to work. The Interface options lets you customize the pop-up window, notification display settings. The options are categorized into various tabs.

Right-click on the tray icon and select the Settings option. Click on the play button at the bottom of the window to listen to the content. There are a couple of extra buttons at the bottom of the application's interface, which you can use to copy the source text or the translation to the clipboard.Ĭrow Translate supports text to speech, and this works with the source text and the translation. There are plenty of other keyboard shortcuts that you can use in Crow Translate, these can be found under the Settings > Shortcuts page. Hit Ctrl + Alt + S to listen to the selected content (text to speech), or Ctrl + Alt + F to hear the translation. The button below it clears the text content from the boxes. Click the icon at the top center of the window, to swap the languages. The button next to the menu can be used to add languages for translation. The drop-down menu above the panes allows you to set the source and translation languages. The left pane displays the source text, and you can also type something in it for the program to translate. The translated text appears in the right pane. You can choose the one that you want to use from the drop-down menu in the bottom right corner of the window. The program supports three translation services: Google, Bing and Yandex. The last mode displays a notification near the system tray (Action Center).Īccess the application's interface manually by clicking on the tray icon. The first is a pop-up window which is opaque, the second option opens the translation in the program's main window. The program can display the translation in 3 modes. Press the hotkey Ctrl + Alt + E to translate the content. To start using it, open any program (browser, Notepad, Word, or any other program with selectable text) and select some text. Still, it may be sufficient for some use cases and it is a bit easier to use.Ĭrow Translate runs on the system tray. If you're looking for something lightweight, and open source, then Crow Translate is a nice choice, though when compared to GT4T, it is a bit lacking in terms of features.
