App: Slatona Translator
Developer: Peter Richards
Genres: Utilities, Productivity

Slatona Translator is the only English to English translator.

"What use is a translator that translates English into English? I already know English!"

Exactly! Of course, we should maybe mention that we don’t translate _directly_ from English to English, because that _would_ be useless. Who would use that app? Instead, Slatona translates _through_ the target language, and back again. If you can’t read Chinese or Spanish or French, how will you know that your message was translated correctly? Slatona lets you read and fix English while behind the scenes you’re actually adjusting the translated text. Of course you can look at, and copy the translated text, because that’s ultimately the end result, but the extra English part, allows you to check and sculpt the translated text as if you knew it!

"Why bother with the extra step? Other translators are able to just take my English and turn it into another language."

Language is complicated. Words that are spelled the same, don't always mean the same thing. AI models are getting better, but they really only improve on grammar. Slatona fills in the gap that AI will never be able to solve, what your words actually mean. 

If a Spanish speaker sends you: "I got the gift you sent, what a monkey you are!". You might ask them to clarify, or you might think "how rude", but unless you know Spanish, you’re not going to make the connection that "what a monkey you are", and "how cute/sweet you are", are both completely correct translations of "que mono eres". AI will never know which one the user is trying to say, because both are valid, and modern translation apps don’t offer much assistance. Slatona was built exactly for this reason. Grammar is great and all, but a perfect sentence that says the opposite of what you meant, is useless, actually sometimes worse than useless.

If you’ve used a translation app for any period of time, you’ve either had this experience, or maybe your words were misunderstood by the recipient without you ever knowing. Conversations are important, and so is getting you message across accurately.

- Features

*Media/file translation* 
Drag/drop documents, PDFs, images, audio files, and more. Or turn on the microphone setting for live speech to text

*Read aloud* 
Want to hear the translation? With the click of a button you can hear the translation, and follow along with the marker that shows the current position. Play/pause, and tempo controls.
For extra clarity download an enhanced or premium voice(these voices are no additional cost, but to keep the app size smaller, require a separate, but fairly quick couple of clicks to download)

*Always at your fingertips*
Open the app with a customizable global hotkey

*Menubar app or window?*
The choice is yours. With the click of a button you can toggle between a window stuck to the menubar, or a window your can move around

*100+ languages*
All the features you're used to from other translation apps, plus a whole lot more!
Select languages have super powerful word sense insight allowing you to speak with eloquence and confidence. 
Additional word sense features currently available for: Spanish, French, Chinese(Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, German, and Italian. 
Korean, and Portuguese will get the additional features soon!

*Huge dictionary*
Over 750k words connected to over 65k word senses.

*Built for speed*
We try to make it as quick and easy as possible to check, and fix your translations. Word sense tags are kept short and clear so you can quickly see "yeah, that's right", or "nope, that's wrong". For example, the word "seal", you'd see "marine animal", "stamp/wax seal", "closure to stop leaks", etc. So you can quickly identify and fix your translation. Or see a full definition, with examples in the dictionary panel.


If you have any questions, comments, or requests for app features you'd like added, we're always happy to help.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Release notes:
Updated screenshots and product previews
Fixed small bug in the dictionary