Text Studio · Windows 10 and 11
Translate English to French
Type English in Text Studio and read the French beside it, translated by a model that runs on your own computer. English to French is a 110 MB download, made once.
How to translate English to French
- 1
Open the translator
On Octoolo's home screen, search for Translator, or open Text Studio and press Translate in the bar above the text. The panel opens beside the page.
- 2
Choose French
Set To to French; From recognizes English by itself.
- 3
Download once
Press Download (110 MB) the first time.
- 4
Write, then check
Type or paste your English. The French appears after each pause; Replace swaps your text for it, and Ctrl Z brings the English back.
Tu, vous and agreement
French needs information English leaves out. "You" becomes tu or vous, and the model leans toward the polite vous in neutral text: "Hello, how are you?" came out as "Bonjour, comment allez-vous ?" in a test. Adjectives and past participles agree with gender, so "I am tired" is fatigué or fatiguée depending on who speaks, which the model cannot know: it wrote the masculine fatigué. Read the French with these two points in mind.
Punctuation and numbers
French typography puts a space before ?, !, : and ;, uses « guillemets » for quotes and a comma for decimals. The model mostly follows it: in a test, "3.5 percent: really?" became "3,5 pour cent : vraiment ?". Quotes, though, stay the way you typed them, so "yes" in straight quotes stays in straight quotes. For a document that will be printed, a find and replace afterwards turns them into guillemets.
France, Canada, Belgium
The model writes standard French, closest to France's. Canadian French differs in vocabulary (courriel, magasiner, fin de semaine), so a text for Quebec deserves a local reader. To translate French you receive, download French to English as well: it is a separate model, and both work offline.
Questions, answered
Does it use tu or vous?
It decides from context and leans toward vous in neutral text. Change it by hand when you write to a friend or a child.
Can it translate French to English too?
Yes, with a separate download of the same size. Press the swap button between From and To.
Can it translate into Canadian French?
It writes standard French; Canadian words and spellings are not chosen on purpose.
Can I translate a whole document?
Yes: Word files and PDFs are saved as a translated Word file.
English to French, and 16 more apps.
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