Dialect

A translation app for GNOME based on Google Translate.

Features

• Translation based on the googletrans Python API, an unofficial API for Google Translate
• 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
• GTK3 gtk3
• libhandy (>= 0.90.0) libhandy
• GStreamer 1.0 gstreamer
• Meson meson
• Ninja ninja
• Googletrans python-googletrans
• gTTS python-gtts
• D-Bus python-dbus

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

pip install googletrans gtts

Building from Git

git clone https://github.com/gi-lom/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 https://github.com/gi-lom/dialect.git
cd dialect
meson builddir
meson configure _build -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.

License

GNU General Public License 3 or later