ReaderTranslator

using SwiftUI, Combine and Catalyst for MacOS(Catalyst and AppKit) iPad iPhone

Requirements

• macOS 10.15 Catalina
• iOS 13
• iPadOS

How to install on macOS

• Download ReaderTranslatorMac.dmg from https://github.com/filimo/ReaderTranslator/releases
• Open downloaded ReaderTranslatorMac.dmg
• Copy ReaderTranslatorMac to Applications folder
• Open ReaderTranslatorMac by the right click and click Open button (might require two attempts)
• Enable ReaderTranslatorSafari extension in Safari->Preferences->Extensions

Important

If you want to translate selected text from Safari you should enable ReaderTranslatorSafari extension in Safari preferences

Base idea

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” by Albert Einstein

Since I read a lot of books or articles in a foreign language I periodically turn to Google Translate and Reverso to understand unfamiliar idioms, words or to find a sutable expressions or words in my native language. And I like to listen to how a word or sentence is pronounced through the voice engine of the system or Google Translate and Reverso.

Although this process is simple I would like to make it as more comfortable as possible. Sometimes I am lazy to look into the translator and I make an assumption about the meaning of a word or idiom and it can lead to a missunderstanding which turns into even greater loss of my time.

Another useful feature is to write text in Safari to check and listen to it with a simple selection of text.

Features

• Support MacOS, ipadOS, iOS
• Read PDF books or Web pages
• Translate selected words or sentences through Google Translate and Reverso
• Voice words or sentences though voice engines with rate speech, Google Translate and Reverso
• Adjust speech rate