Feature: Auto Translation

My guess is that there aren't that many language resources included in Silver that can take advantage of the utility. Gold gives more use cases.

This feature does not seem to be working with some resources, such as my Göttingen LXX.  Obviously the LXX text itself is in Greek, which apparently is not supported at this time, but I would expect the German text to work.

Thanks!  It is a very cool feature, and I'm looking forward to being able to incorporate it into my studies.

As I scroll down in a resource that is entirely in a language I want to translate from, every time I stop scrolling, the resource text jumps to the left; after the translation is complete, it jumps to the right. This motion is very distracting. Is it avoidable?

Hi Father Roza, is it your sense that the translation tool does a pretty good job with Latin-to-English translation? I have a number of books in Logos library that have Latin mixed in with English, e.g. Ludwig Ott's "Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma". (I'm probably showing how long I've been a Libronix/ Logos, Verbum user since I was able to purchase that book when Logos could still sell it.)

I was also wondering if you had any idea how good a translation job the tool does with French-to-English?

Thank-you Father.  I also appreciate your involvement in the forums!

Svend Ryborg said:

Are there plans to integrate this feature in sermons, so you can translate a sermon into another language?

Given, e.g., the privacy concerns involved in sending text not produced by Faithlife to external services for automatic translation, I would assume that there is not.

You yourself could, however, use Google Translate, deepl, etc., to translate your own work into other languages.

The auto-translation tool's behavior when clicking on a paragraph could be improved.

Instead of indenting the text at the left margin and adding the translation symbol, it could simply change the background color of the translated text without indenting the position of the original text.
It's very unpleasant to see the text moving with each translated paragraph when you're doing this with long texts.

Because of this, I prefer to manually select the text with the mouse because, this way, the text doesn't move, it just has a gray background. This could be the normal reaction when switching from one paragraph to another.

There could also be buttons to navigate through the translation by scrolling both panels simultaneously instead of having to keep clicking on the text. There could be options to set the translation limit, for example by paragraph or by sentences with a punctuation limit.

To sum up:
(1) Don't indent the text at the left margin;

(2) Add navigation buttons to change the translated portion and scroll the panels simultaneously;

(3) Add an option to limit the translated text (paragraph, sentence, clause).

https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/auto-translate-add-navigation-buttons-in-the-translation-tool

https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-desktop-app/posts/improve-behavior-of-the-auto-translation-tool 

See images below, for exemple:

Unnecessary indentation in translated text:

Translated text with gray background:

Add similar buttons to move translated text and translation column together: