Speak one language.
Type another.

Open Preferences → Language and pick the Translation target from the built-in list — English, 中文, 日本語, Español, and more. Need something rarer? Choose Other… and enter any ISO code, such as zh-tw for Traditional Chinese. Both translation styles use this target from then on.

Put your cursor where the text should go and press the translation style's hotkey — Right Option by default. Every style can have its own key, so daily input and translation sit on different fingers.

Say it the way you think it. The source language is picked up as you speak, and the translated text is typed at your cursor in the active app — email, chat, docs, anywhere you can type.

Translates faithfully into the target language while preserving your original structure as much as possible. Choose it when your emphasis and ordering matter — replies where you weighed every clause.

Takes more freedom to restructure the sentence into natural target-language output. Choose it when the goal is smooth reading rather than a mirror of your phrasing.

The Edit style takes your speech as an instruction — select a paragraph and say "translate this paragraph" and it rewrites in place. Handy for text you didn't dictate.

Yes. Set the translation target to en in Preferences → Language, put your cursor in any text field — email, chat, docs, code review — press the translation hotkey, and speak Chinese. The English translation is typed at your cursor. The same works in the other direction, or between any other language pair you set.

No. You set the target language once in Preferences → Language. The source language is picked up as you speak, and the same panel gives you control over source-language detection if you want it pinned.

Minimal-Translate translates faithfully and preserves your original sentence structure as much as possible — good when your wording matters. Shape-Translate takes more freedom to restructure the sentence into natural target-language output — good when you want it to read like a native wrote it. Each can have its own hotkey.

Pick the target from the built-in list in Preferences → Language — English, 中文, 日本語, Español, and more — or choose Other… and enter any ISO language code, such as zh-tw for Traditional Chinese. Recognition supports 100+ languages, with the deepest support for English and Chinese.