If you haven’t yet downloaded any language support, and online translation isn’t available, your attempt may fail.
You’ll normally want to copy the translation to paste it somewhere else. If you do, the translation will vanish and you’ll be back to where you started. Whatever you do at this stage, don’t click on anything other than the controls in this window. The basics are very simple: select the text you want to translate, which could have been recognised and converted using Monterey’s new Live Text feature, bring up the contextual menu (Control-click, two-finger tap, etc.) and from that select the Translate … command.ĭepending on whether you have downloaded any languages for offline translation, you’ll then be invited to select the languages before clicking on the Translate button.Ī few seconds later the translated text should appear in the floating window. This article explains how you can use them to become less reliant on Google’s online services. One of the new features tucked away in the long list of improvements in macOS 12 Monterey is both online and offline translation. Although I’m not a heavy user of Google Translate, and recognise its many imperfections, I do rely on it to help me translate from quite a wide range of languages to English.