A translation app for GNOME.

• Translation based on Google Translate
• Translation based on the LibreTranslate API, allowing you to use any public instance
• Translation based on Lingva Translate API
• Translation based on Bing
• Translation based on Yandex
• Translation history
• Automatic language detection
• Text to speech
• Clipboard buttons

The stable version is available from the official Extra repository: dialect and the latest git revision is available as an AUR package: dialect-git

Dialect is available for Fedora 33 and later:

sudo dnf install dialect

Dialect is available in Debian 12:

sudo apt-get install dialect

• Python 3 python
• PyGObject python-gobject
• GTK4 (>= 4.16.0) gtk4
• libadwaita (>= 1.6.0) libadwaita
• libsoup (>= 3.0) libsoup
• libsecret
• GStreamer 1.0 gstreamer
• Meson meson
• Ninja ninja
• gTTS python-gtts
• Beautiful Soup python-beautifulsoup4

If official packages are not available for any of the python dependencies, you can install them from pip:

pip install gtts

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/dialect-app/dialect.git
cd dialect
meson builddir --prefix=/usr/local
sudo ninja -C builddir install

For testing and development purposes, you may run a local build:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/dialect-app/dialect.git
cd dialect
meson builddir
meson configure builddir -Dprefix=$(pwd)/builddir/testdir
ninja -C builddir install
ninja -C builddir run

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Dialect has already been translated into many languages (see the translations repository file). Please help translate Dialect into more languages through Weblate.

GNU General Public License 3 or later