Quick Look
TransOver allows you to translate words or selected text instantly via hover, click, or selection, with optional text-to-speech.
AI Overview
Who is this for?
Users who frequently encounter foreign language content online and need quick, on-demand translations.
Key Features
- → Translate on hover, click, or selection
 - → Text-to-speech functionality
 - → Type and translate in a popup
 - → Copy translation to clipboard
 - → Reverse translate option
 
Reviews Analysis
Overall Sentiment
Mostly PositiveUsers appreciate the convenience and functionality of TransOver for quick translations, though occasional glitches and UI issues are noted.
Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.
What Users Love
- ✓ Convenient translation via hover or click
 - ✓ Useful text-to-speech feature
 - ✓ Versatile translation options
 
Points to Consider
- × Occasional display or functionality bugs
 - × Popup positioning issues reported
 - × Some users prefer more explicit language controls
 
Official Description
From the Developer
Hover, click or select to translate (with text-to-speech). Translator.
Translate word (or text selection) from any language to the language of your choice by single click or hover over.
Also available:
- text-to-speech
 - reverse translate: from your own language to the language of your choice
 - type and translate in a popup
 - copy translation to clipboard
 
SECURITY EXPLAINED
"Your data on all websites": TransOver should be able to read any word on a page - "Your data ..." - in order to translate it. On any website you want it working - "... on all websites".
100% CLEAN Softpedia award - https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Internet-Applications-Addons/Chrome-Extensions/TransOver.shtml#status
There is also a Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/transover-ff/
CHANGELOG
1.74
- Better popup positioning 1.73
 - When reverse translating, tts now speaks "target" language, as opposed to the "source" one 1.72
 - Fix double translation (flicker) when translating selection 1.71
 - Make tts great again
 - Add more languages 1.70
 - Fix for google translate api changes 1.69
 - Add 'Disable everywhere' toggle 1.68
 - Upgrade Google Analytics from UA to GA4 1.67
 - Fix "only show when key pressed" having no effect in some cases 1.66
 - Fix not working on youtube.com 1.65
 - Fix typo in the api fallback 1.64
 - Prevent Chrome page translation tool from translating popup (see https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/17256; thanks https://github.com/dotdioscorea) 1.63
 - Fix remember language in "type and translate" popup being scoped to a particular site 1.62
 - Fix translation popup sometimes not appearing 1.61
 - Remember language options in "type and trasnlate" popup
 - Fix double translation popup showing in certain scenarious 1.60
 - Remove unnecessary required "tabs" permission. 1.59
 - Re-enable clients5 API (it magically started working again). But keep the fallback to rate limited API in case it breaks again. 1.58
 - Fix "not working on youtube" 1.57
 - Fix usage tracking
 - Show error in the popup when google translate API rate limit is hit 1.56
 - Better usage tracking (to see how many people hit Google Translate API rate limit)
 - Fix chrome build (production webpack generates invalid UTF-8 build) - this time for real 1.55
 - Fix chrome build (production webpack generates invalid UTF-8 build) 1.54
 - Fix API url 1.52
 - Works on Firefox (involved numerous cleanups) 1.49
 - Show translated noun gender where applicable 1.48
 - Fix hover menus closing unintentionally 1.47
 - Add ability to configure font size 1.46
 - remove youtube fix - it seems to be no longer required 1.45
 - fix not working on youtube 1.44
 - make "translate into" field look more like a required field
 - fix occasional exception showing up in dev tools 1.43
 - Add "disable on this page" checkbox to type-and-translate popup.
 - Changing options no longer requires to reload pages.
 - Fix web components deprecation warnings. 1.42
 - Change google translate API url. The old one seems to be getting blocked more and more. 1.41
 - Fix regression. T&T popup wasn't showing translation. 1.40
 - Optionally show "translated from" language in a popup. Because source langage autodetect often makes funny choices and then people blame TransOver for incorrect/missing translations. This will hopefully act as a hint to go and change "translate from" option from autodetect to a set language. 1.39
 - Add "copy translation" feature 1.38
 - Fix errors in developer console 1.37
 - Add option to translate on whitelisted sites only (credit https://github.com/yamanq/translate_onhover) 1.36
 - Fix "reverse translate to" dropdown not being fully populated 1.35
 - Fix TTS looping when key is pressed and held 1.34
 - Smaller and crispier font 1.33
 - if site is added to "don't translate on these sites", don't inject template elements. So that they don't show up in OWA new email form 1.32
 - attempt to fix template content being appended to contenteditable body (OWA new email form) 1.31
 - fix certain sites (e.g. facebook, youtube) being subtly broken for extit{some} users. By not using html imports, since Chrome appears to be buggy in that respect. 1.30
 - fix selection translation appearing in the corner
 - fix "letter-spacing" parent style leaking into the popup
 - dismiss popup on scroll 1.29
 - new icon
 - slower tts
 - inner refactoring: iframes -> web components 1.28
 - use Speech Synthesis API for text-to-speech 1.27
 - add "from" to type-and-translate popup
 - don't use chrome.tts. Like ever again 1.26
 - use chrome.tts api 1.25
 - get back "Translate from" option 1.24
 - fix exception showing up in js console 1.23
 - fix showing only first sentence of selection translation 1.22
 - fix hotkey setup
 - less ugly "type and translate" popup
 - better way to figure out unsuccessful translation 1.21
 - support new google api 1.20
 - configurable tts key 1.19
 - rollback z-index increase - previous value was the correct maximum 1.18
 - max z-index so that popup always stays on top 1.17
 - revert "cache regexp" optimization 1.16
 - don't use chrome.tts 1.15
 - count apostrophes as word characters. So that d'abord, don't, etc. get proper translation.
 - fix tts 1.14
 - skip editable divs (fixes google+, youtube, etc. comments) 1.13
 - redirect to options after install 1.12
 - fix tts for "type and translate" 1.11
 - fix occasional exception in chrome js console 1.10
 - fix xss security issue 1.9
 - allow disabling reverse translate if "translate from" is chosen 1.8
 - add option to choose show popup trigger (previously, 'alt' was the only option) 1.7
 - fix large selection translation not getting proper height 1.6
 - fix broken single word translation 1.5
 - only show type-and-translate popup in top frame (so that bits of it do not show up in facebook, g+ buttons)
 - upgrade jquery to get rid of source map exception in dev console 1.4
 - fix broken tts for multiword translation
 - better "don't translate clicking links" 1.3
 - don't translate when clicking on links 1.2
 - track source langage properly 1.1
 - add google analytics 1.0
 - better popup implementation (possibly fixes wrong popup size)
 - smaller dependencies 0.44
 - fix "choose target lang" broken link 0.43
 - fix missing icons 0.42
 - improve popup layout in g+
 - smaller package (so it installs faster) 0.41
 - fix tts 0.40
 - fix broken popup layout on latest chrome and chromium 0.39
 - fixed major brokenness caused by google api changes
 - add option to only translate selection when alt pressed
 - add reverse translate when 'autodetect from word' is chosen 0.38
 - translate all frames 0.37
 - make 'Oops.. no translation' optional 0.36
 - better ignore editable divs 0.35
 - fix tts not working for type and translate mode 0.34
 - ignore gmail and g+ editable divs 0.33
 - button for 'type and translate' popup
 - popup more resilient to current page style (been moved to iframe) 0.32
 - set text direction right-to-left for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and Yiddish
 - save options on Enter 0.31
 - only offer to choose language once (per page load) 0.30
 - change default autodetect method from locale to word 0.29
 - add Esperanto 0.28
 - translate in a popup 0.27
 - fix broken translation for text that contains regex special characters: ), $, etc. 0.26
 - bring back 'translate from' option 0.25
 - reverse translate
 - reliable source language autodetect; as a result, getting rid of manual source language option
 - 'do not translate on sites' option is less confusing 0.24
 - change 'translated only if X pressed' from 'shift' to 'alt' 0.23
 - make Text-To-Speech optional and disabled by default 0.22
 - expose 'translate from' option
 - redesign options page to hide advanced options behind separate link 0.21
 - text to speech on ctrl press 0.20
 - jquery updated to 1.7.1 0.19
 - fix adjustment for parent font-size going not quite as planned 0.18
 - fix translating wrong word (not the one behind cursor) in rare cases (that was due to extit{} style font-size being different from element font-size)
 - hit between the lines confuses javascript getElementFromPosisition, resulting in visibly broken html after translation. Fixed. 0.17
 - ignore mouse 'noise' movements (so popup does not flicker)
 - enable 'delay' option only when 'translate by point at word' and not 'shift only'
 - fixed unescaped html. again. 0.16
 - 'translate by click' option added
 - fixed performance issue on pages with large text nodes 0.12
 - selection translation popup no longer shows up anywhere on the page (#17) 0.11
 - updated available languages 0.10
 - gotten rid of calls to Google Translate API (since it is deprecated) 0.9
 - proper cased (as opposed to always lower case) translation (#16)
 - make sure translation popup doesn't get out of the window (#14) 0.8
 - more prominent translation popup (#13)
 - no longer attempts to translate selection in text inputs (#12) 0.7
 - translation no longer changes styles of underlying text (#11). Thanks to Dmitriy Kostikov for pointing in the right direction 0.6
 - no more explicit 'translate from' option - autodetect is good enough. Also fixes #8
 - fixed: erases closing tag on html/xml listing (#6)
 - fixed: part of speech is now bold on every page (#9) 0.5
 - text selection translate (#4)
 - fixed: drops text selection (#7) 0.4
 - report translation fail. As opposed to simply not showing anything to user
 - hide translation on page scroll
 - prompt user to choose target language, in case it isn't set. Useful for new installs
 - source language is now a configurable option (defaults to 'autodetect')
 - translation delay is now configurable option
 - remove "don't translate from these languages" option
 - gotten rid of explicit api call to detect language. Turns out dictionary api can do it itself.
 - popup fadeIn/fadeOut. As opposed to hide/show 0.3
 - reduced delay before translation start
 
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Key Info
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                                Rating:
                                4.5/5.0
1.8K ratings
 - Users:100,000
 - Version:1.74
 - Updated:Feb 04, 2024
 
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