English - French translation app for Android?

[Riley Blue]

I'm meeting a friend's lady for the first time next week. She is French but profoundly deaf and lip reads but to help make conversation easier I wondered about using an English - French translation app.

Any thoughts on which I might try?

[eltawater]

If you're on android then it should have Google translate preinstalled

[Road2Ruin]

eltawater said:

If you're on android then it should have Google translate preinstalled

And it works very well. You can speak English into it and it will turn it in to French text, if you want.

[dhutch]

And live translation of text using your camera. Great for menus!

[CanAm]

Road2Ruin said:

And it works very well. You can speak English into it and it will turn it in to French text, if you want.

And in its ‘conversation mode’ you can both speak virtually normally and the app prints the text onscreen and reads it out loud too.

[Road2Ruin]

CanAm said:

Road2Ruin said:

And it works very well. You can speak English into it and it will turn it in to French text, if you want.

And in its conversation mode you can both speak virtually normally and the app prints the text onscreen and reads it out loud too.

As the lady is deaf, I didn't think that bit would help

[Rushjob]

Deepl, very good both for phone and tablet / laptop

Use it most days and have done for years.

It is certainly better than google translate for French

[CanAm]

Road2Ruin said:

CanAm said:

Road2Ruin said:

And it works very well. You can speak English into it and it will turn it in to French text, if you want.

And in its conversation mode you can both speak virtually normally and the app prints the text onscreen and reads it out loud too.

As the lady is deaf, I didn't think that bit would help

Not for her, but probably for the OP, especially if he's forgotten his reading glasses. (Everyone has reading glasses, don't they? )

[Panamax]

CanAm said:

Everyone has reading glasses, don't they?

If they can find them....

[Riley Blue]

Thanks everyone.

Never having needed such an app before I didn't realise I already had the answer on my phone..

[dhutch]

It's a bloody good app to be fair.

[CanAm]

dhutch said:

It's a bloody good app to be fair.

I got "encouraged" to take part in a pub quiz in Sweden with 2 friends who also spoke no Swedish. The phone app was good enough to pick up and translate the question-master's voice.