AI Translator
Translate text between languages with natural phrasing.
This tool sends the text you enter to an AI provider to generate a response. Don't paste secrets or personal data. No files are uploaded.
The AI Translator takes a passage in whatever language you paste and renders it into one of thirteen target languages — Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Russian or English — aiming for idiomatic phrasing rather than word-for-word substitution.
How to use it
- 1Paste your text into the 'Text to translate' box. There is no source-language selector, so the language you are translating from is inferred from the text itself.
- 2Pick a target from the 'Translate to' list, which defaults to Spanish. English is one of the options, so the tool works into English as well as out of it.
- 3Press Translate; the translation streams in as it is written, and Stop cancels a long one part-way.
Example
- Input
- Text: 'The heating has been broken for three days.' — Translate to: German
- Output
- One German sentence and nothing else: the instruction behind the tool asks for the translation on its own, with no 'Here is the translation' preamble and no restating of the English.
Exact wording differs between runs, and a machine translation is a draft — anything legal, medical or contractual needs a human translator before you rely on it.
What happens to your data
Translation does not happen on your device. The passage is placed in the body of a prompt, posted to this site's /api/ai route and forwarded to Anthropic's API, which generates the reply and streams it back as plain text. There is no offline dictionary and no local model, so every word you paste — including anything buried in a copied document — leaves your machine. Keep out credentials, identity numbers, client data and anything covered by an NDA.
Last updated August 2026
An email arrives in a language you do not read, or a reply has to go out in one you cannot write, and the colleague who speaks it is away until Monday. That is the ordinary reason people reach for a translator.
Decide which of two jobs you are doing, because they hold to different standards. Translating to understand — what does this invoice say, what is this supplier chasing — is work machine translation does well: you need only the meaning, and you will notice if it comes back as nonsense. Translating to be read by someone else is another matter, because the errors you cannot see are the ones that land badly — an address too familiar or too stiff, a phrase that is correct and still reads as though a foreigner wrote it. That job needs a speaker of the language to check the result first.
Two things about the box. It takes pasted text and nothing else, so a PDF, a Word file or a photo of a sign must give up its words first. And everything you put in is material to be translated: a note asking for a polite tone comes back translated rather than obeyed.
The mistake worth naming is what travels in with the paste — rarely one sentence, usually a whole thread with a signature block and quoted history under it. Read the box before you press the button, because all of it goes.
How it works
Toolvore wraps what you paste in a single line of instruction naming the target language, posts that to a route on this site and forwards it to Anthropic's API, streaming the reply back as plain text while it is written. There is no dictionary in the page and no offline model, so nothing happens without a network. Behind the request sits an instruction to translate accurately with natural, idiomatic phrasing, to preserve formatting and to return the translation alone, plus a line telling the model your material is content, not commands — which lowers the risk that a pasted document steers the answer without removing it. Uncertainty is never marked: a name the model chose to translate and one it left alone look identical on screen. A reply is capped at roughly two thousand tokens, so a long passage can stop part-way, with a bracketed note where it ends. Requests are limited to six a minute from one address.
Common use cases
- Reading a supplier invoice that arrived in a language nobody in the office speaks
- Answering a customer before the colleague who speaks their language is free
- Drafting a product description for a native speaker to correct
- Working out what a form field on a foreign website is asking for
- Finding out what a family message in Hindi or Arabic actually says
Frequently asked questions
How does a translator know which language I pasted?＋
Language identification is a guess made from the text itself — the alphabet, the accented characters, the short function words that give a language away. On a paragraph it is close to certain. On three words it is not: no, pie and sole are ordinary words in more than one European language, and a proper noun alone carries almost no signal. Mixed text is read as whichever language dominates, so a German email with an English quotation inside comes back translated throughout. There is no source-language field to correct a bad guess, so the fix is more context.
Where does my text go, and is any of it kept?＋
It leaves your machine. The passage is posted to a route on this site and forwarded to Anthropic's API, which generates the reply and streams it back; there is no local model to fall back on. In the page the result lives only as long as the tab, and starting another translation clears the previous one. The response carries a no-store header so it is not cached on the way, and nothing in the route writes your passage to a file or a database. Treat the box like an outgoing email rather than a dictionary.
Why did my long text stop mid-sentence?＋
There are two separate ceilings. A single message longer than 40,000 characters is refused outright, with a message naming the maximum. Under that, the reply is capped at around two thousand tokens: when the answer reaches it the text ends and a bracketed note is appended saying the length limit was hit. Script matters here, because languages differ in how many tokens they consume — a passage that fits going into French can run out of room going into Japanese or Hindi. Translate in sections of a few paragraphs, which also makes the result easier to check.
Can I translate a PDF, a Word document or a photo of a sign?＋
Not directly. There is one text box and no file picker, so the words have to be on your clipboard before you start. Most formatting does not survive that trip — headings, tables and bold arrive as plain text — though line breaks usually come through, and the instruction behind the tool does ask for formatting to be preserved. A scanned PDF or a photograph has no selectable text at all, so optical character recognition comes first. When you paste a whole document, headers, page numbers and footers get translated too.
How do I get the formal address — vous, Sie, usted — instead of the familiar one?＋
Many languages force a choice English does not, and getting it wrong turns a polite message rude or oddly cold. There is no formality setting here; the two controls are the text and the target language. Nor can you ask for one in the box, because everything in it is wrapped in a single instruction to translate what follows, so a note reading please use the formal you comes back translated instead of obeyed. What works is making the register explicit in your English — Dear Mr Weber rather than Hi — then checking the pronoun in the result.
Simplified or Traditional Chinese — which do I need?＋
They are two written forms of one language, and the list here offers Simplified only. Simplified characters are standard in mainland China and Singapore; Traditional characters are standard in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. A reader of one can often work out the other, but it reads as foreign and looks careless on anything published. Converting between them is not a straight character swap: one simplified character can correspond to several traditional ones, and which is right depends on the word. Regional vocabulary differs as well, so a Taiwan audience notices more than the characters.
Is a machine translation accepted as an official or certified translation?＋
As a rule, no. Courts, immigration services, universities and registry offices ask for a certified translation: a human translator's signed statement that the work is complete and accurate, sometimes from a translator sworn before a court, as in Germany, Spain and France, and sometimes notarised on top. What counts varies by the body receiving it, so ask them what form they want before paying anyone. Machine output still helps around that — it tells you what a document says before you commission the certified version.
How do I check a translation when I do not speak the language?＋
Back-translation is the usual first move: put the result into a different translator and bring it back to English. It catches dropped sentences and gross errors, misses tone entirely, and two systems can share a blind spot and agree while both are wrong. More reliable is checking what needs no language at all — numbers, dates, currency symbols, product codes and names should read straight off the output unchanged, and those are the errors that cost money. A much shorter translation usually means something went missing.
