Has anybody managed to figure out how to get Google Translate to work offline for voice/conversion translations with Android 8 or 9? If so, please explain how.
Google translate used to do offline voice translation, once you had figured out you need to install 3 lots of offline data. This has helped me out many times in places with no internet access. They removed this feature after V5.10 so for years I have been using the old version under Android 5,6 & 7 without any issue. I have been trying for hours to get it to work under Android 8 & 9 without success. I just get the error "Speech input is having difficulties. Try again (E1001)"
I think this might be that the system seems to be now using "speech services by google" instead of the google app for voice recognition.
I can't understand why they removed this feature, everything is there to complete the task, offline voice recognition, offline text translation, offline text to speech output. They even removed voice typing from the translate text input field.
There is a sort of workaround (after you have downloaded all the offline data)
From any text input field, use voice typing, then select the result and share to translate. This is quite a faff as you need to change the preferred language each time to have a conversation. Could a third party app do this automatically (allow voice typing and pass the result to the translate app)?
If anybody has figured out how to get the translate app to work, or a better workaround, please let me know.
Thanks
Google translate used to do offline voice translation, once you had figured out you need to install 3 lots of offline data. This has helped me out many times in places with no internet access. They removed this feature after V5.10 so for years I have been using the old version under Android 5,6 & 7 without any issue. I have been trying for hours to get it to work under Android 8 & 9 without success. I just get the error "Speech input is having difficulties. Try again (E1001)"
I think this might be that the system seems to be now using "speech services by google" instead of the google app for voice recognition.
I can't understand why they removed this feature, everything is there to complete the task, offline voice recognition, offline text translation, offline text to speech output. They even removed voice typing from the translate text input field.
There is a sort of workaround (after you have downloaded all the offline data)
From any text input field, use voice typing, then select the result and share to translate. This is quite a faff as you need to change the preferred language each time to have a conversation. Could a third party app do this automatically (allow voice typing and pass the result to the translate app)?
If anybody has figured out how to get the translate app to work, or a better workaround, please let me know.
Thanks
