Dialect

A translation app for GNOME.

Features

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

Installation

Flathub

AUR

Arch-based distro users can install from the AUR: dialect for the stable version or dialect-git for the latest git revision.

Fedora

Dialect is available for Fedora 33 and later:

sudo dnf install dialect

Building

Requirements

Python 3 python
PyGObject python-gobject
GTK4 gtk4
libadwaita (>= 1.2.0) libadwaita
GStreamer 1.0 gstreamer
Meson meson
Ninja ninja
gTTS python-gtts
D-Bus python-dbus
Beautiful Soup python-beautifulsoup4
Gnome Screenshot gnome-screenshot
Imagemagick imagemagick
Python pytesseract python-pytesseract
Tesseract Ocr tesseract-ocr

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

pip install gtts

Building from Git

‍‍```

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

Contributing

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

Translations

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

License

GNU General Public License 3 or later

mdpe-ir/dialect