SayHi Translate
Submitted by Antonio Guimaraes on Monday, March 12, 2012.
Last modified
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
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Description of App
Get the Best Translation App
Featured by Apple in "What's Hot"
"This is the freakin' universal translator." - TWiT.tv
"SayHi Translate is impressively accurate." - 148apps.com
"I give this app 5 stars." - AppSlappy Podcast
Super Accurate Speech Recognition
40 Languages & Dialects
36 Languages & Dialects with Speech Recognition:
- English (United States)
- English (United Kingdom)
- English (Australia)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Spanish (United States)
- Spanish (Mexico)
- French (France)
- French (Canada)
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Mandarin (China)
- Mandarin (Taiwan)
- Cantonese
- Korean
- Dutch
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Danish
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Polish
- Russian
- Arabic (UAE)
- Arabic (Saudi)
- Arabic (Egypt)
- Finnish
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Slovak
- Turkish
- Czech
- Malay (no voice)
- Romanian (no voice)
- Vietnamese (no voice)
4 Languages with Voices:
- Basque
- Catalan
- Hindi
- Thai
Put an interpreter in your pocket.
Version
3.0.1
Free or Paid
Paid
Apple Watch Support
Not Known
Device(s) App Was Tested On
iPhone
VoiceOver Performance
VoiceOver reads most page elements.
Button Labeling
Most buttons are clearly labeled.
Usability
There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.
Developer's Website
Recommendations
1 people have recommended this app
Comments
Update from developer
The developer has posted on Twitter that they will be improving accessibility in the next release. Excellent!
Comparison
Just curious, how would you compare this to something like Google Translate. Google Translate is Free and isn't all that hard to use.
I prefer SayHi Translate
the biggest anoyance with Google Translate is that it likes to deactivate the headphone. Another one is that hearing the translation out loud is not automatic in Google Translate, but is so in SayHi. With Google Translate you must switch from and to languages, while in SayHi you have both buttons on the same page, conveniently on bottom left and bottom right of page. The cleaner interface in SayHi allows for a conversation to flow between two speakers without tinkering with the settings.
These are both pretty usable apps, but I think SayHi is a bit more usable, and straight forward. I can't wait for VoiceOver improvements in SayHi.
Latest update not quite as easy to use
The latest update (3.0.2,, January 24, 2012) does not seem quite as easy to use as earlier versions. For example, while the immediate translation always made this one of the easier translation apps to use, it now seems more difficult to flick through and have the translated phrase repeated, copied, edited or shared, Buttons for these functions now appear to be associated with a window in the middle of the screen, instead of directly above the phrases just spoken and translated. Has anyone else who has updated and is using this version found an easier way to navigate the buttons?
Esther
Accessibility Comments