Convey's Photo Translation, Define, and Pronunciation Tools

Typing out text to translate isn't always practical — a menu, a sign, a label, or a word you can read but don't know how to say. Convey has three tools built around exactly that, alongside the core mood-based translation.

Photo translation

Point the camera at text — a menu, a sign, a label — and get it translated without typing anything. Useful for the situations where typing isn't realistic: you're standing in front of the thing, not sitting with a keyboard.

Define

Tap Define on any translation to see what a word or phrase actually means, in both the original and translated language, not just the translated text itself. This is for when a translation is technically correct but you want to understand the word choice — why this word and not a close synonym, what it literally breaks down to, what it implies beyond the dictionary sense.

Pronunciation

Every translation comes with romanization, IPA, and a plain-language respelling, plus spoken audio you can slow down. Useful for actually saying something out loud with a language whose script or sounds you don't already know — reading a translation silently and being able to say it are different skills, and this tool is for the second one.

Why these are separate from the core translation

Mood-based translation solves tone. These three solve the adjacent problems that come up around translation — text you can't easily type, words you want to understand rather than just receive, and sounds you want to actually produce. None of them require an account or save anything; same stateless approach as the rest of Convey.

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