Lingopane

Read the slide in your language.

Lingopane lays a clear pane over your screen and puts the translation exactly where the original text is. It works on presentations, PDFs, web pages and any other window.

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Drag the pane across the slide. Illustration; the app's own wording can differ.

Coming soon to the Microsoft Store For Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit

What it does

  • Nothing leaves your PC

    Reading the screen and translating both happen on your computer. No account, no cloud, no upload. The internet is used only to download a language or the speech model the first time you turn it on.

  • Only you see it

    The pane is left out of screenshots and screen sharing. Everyone else sees the original; you see the translation.

  • Keeps up with the slide

    When the screen changes, the old translation disappears at once and the new one usually follows in under a second.

  • Speech, too

    Turn on captions and what is being said in the meeting appears as translated subtitles, a second or two behind the speaker.

  • Your terms stay your terms

    Put product names and fixed terms in the glossary and they are translated the way you wrote them, every time.

  • Notes without typing

    Lingopane can save each screen it saw, original next to translation, as a text file in your Documents folder.

Shortcuts

Ctrl Alt T
Turn translation on or off
Ctrl Alt O
Hold to see the original
Ctrl Alt W
Translate only the window in front, or the whole screen
Ctrl Alt S
Turn speech captions on or off
Ctrl Alt A
Open settings
Ctrl Alt Q
Quit

Languages

Reads, included
German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese
Reads, downloaded on first use
Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese
Translates into
English, Turkish

To read a language on screen, Windows needs that language's text recognition pack. Lingopane tells you which one is missing and how to add it.