Point, Shoot, Understand
Menus, signs and screenshots translated from a single photo
Snap or upload any image with text and Fish Voice returns a tidy bilingual card you can read, share or listen to. Sixteen languages, instant results, zero setup.
Upload Image
Drag & drop a photo, screenshot or sign (JPG, PNG, WebP)
Premium: 1 credit per 500 characters (UTF-8)
Reading a Foreign Language You Can See But Can't Read
Some of the most useful text in your life isn't typed anywhere — it's printed on a menu, baked into a screenshot, glued to a warning label, scrawled on a whiteboard. Image translation exists for exactly that text: point the AI at the picture, and it recognizes the characters (OCR) and translates them (a language model) in one pass.
This is harder than translating typed text, and the difference shows: real photos tilt, glare, and hide letters against busy backgrounds; signage uses display fonts no keyboard could produce; handwriting breaks every neat rule. A vision model trained on real-world images handles all of it, then lays the translation beside the original line by line so nothing gets lost in the middle.
It runs right here in the browser — no app, no account. And since Fish Voice is built around voice, every translation comes with a speaker icon: tap it and the translated text is read aloud in a natural AI voice.
The Text Is Right There. You Just Can't Read It.
The manual route — squint, type, paste, translate — loses something at every step
Manual Typing
Typing a foreign script character by character into a translator is slow, error-prone, and hopeless for alphabets you can't even input.
Failing Legacy OCR
Desktop OCR from the 2010s shatters on curved surfaces, shadows and stylized fonts — you spend more time fixing it than reading it.
Tool-Switching Overhead
Camera roll → OCR program → translator tab → dictionary. Four apps and ten minutes for one street sign.
No Audio Output
Even when the old pipeline works, it hands you silent text — no help if you need to say the word out loud.
One Photo, One Tap, Done
Drop the image, get the translation — source language detected automatically, 30+ targets available, and a voice that reads the result aloud on request. Free daily, no signup, right in this tab.
From Photo to Translation
Three steps, about five seconds of computing
Upload Your Image
Upload or drag in the picture — menu, sign, screenshot, book page, handwritten note (JPG, PNG, WebP, up to 10 MB).
AI Reads & Translates
The AI identifies the source language on its own, lifts every text block off the image, and translates the lot into your chosen language.
Read or Listen
Read the two versions side by side, tap Read Aloud to hear it, or feed it the next image.
What the Translator Does Well
Built for the messy real world, not the scanner bed
Accurate AI OCR
Angled phone snaps, dim restaurants, curved bottles, cursive notes — the vision model was raised on exactly this.
30+ Languages
Every major language pair you'll actually need: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Arabic and the rest.
Auto Language Detection
Never heard of the source language? Doesn't matter — the AI names it and translates it without being asked.
Read Aloud with AI
One tap turns any result into spoken audio — say it like a local instead of pointing at your screen.
Free to Use
A generous daily free allowance, no card, no account, no app store detour.
Private by Design
Your photos do their job and vanish — processed for translation, not kept.
Where the Camera Beats the Dictionary
Everyday moments this tool was built for
Travelers
Decipher the menu, the timetable and the pharmacy shelf before you point — order like you've lived there.
Students & Researchers
Textbook scans, lecture slides, library reserve pages — translated and read aloud in one pass.
Online Shoppers
Ingredient lists and instruction sheets on imported goods, decoded before checkout, not after.
Social Media Users
Screenshots, memes and DM screenshots from anywhere — know what your friends are laughing about.
International Teams
Foreign charts and slide decks become meeting-ready for the whole team in seconds.
Language Learners
Harvest real-world text for practice — translate it, then let the AI voice drill your listening.
What Users Say
People who stopped typing foreign text by hand
“Semester abroad, day one: cafeteria menu decoded in five seconds. By week two I was translating entire lecture handouts in the back row.”
“The read-aloud button is the feature I never knew I needed — I hear the phrase and repeat it, and suddenly I'm not just reading the language.”
“Supplier photos used to cost me a messaging marathon. Now it's screenshot, upload, understood — and my reorder accuracy shows it.”
Image Translation FAQ
Before you point your camera at something
- What exactly does "image translation" mean?
It means the text lives in the picture and the AI gets it out: OCR recognizes the characters in your photo, and a translation model converts them into your language. Upload a menu, sign, screenshot or scanned page and the translated version appears beside the original within seconds.
- Walk me through translating a photo.
Upload it, pick the target language, hit Translate — that's the whole ceremony. The source language is detected automatically and results show side by side in seconds.
- Which language pairs work?
30+ languages in any direction — English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Arabic and more, with auto-detection on the source side.
- Can it read handwriting?
Most everyday handwriting, yes. Doctors' prescriptions and furious-whiteboard energy will test it — clean, well-lit photos of legible script are where it shines.
- Can I hear the translation?
That's the Fish Voice difference — tap Read Aloud and the translated text is spoken in a natural AI voice. Pronunciation practice and hands-free use come standard.
- File types and size?
JPG, PNG and WebP up to 10MB. Phone snapshots, screenshots and scanner output are all fair game.
- Book pages and documents?
Yes — photograph the page flat and in decent light, and the OCR will lift the text cleanly. Great for foreign novels and study packs.
- Is my image stored?
No. Images are read for translation and then discarded — nothing kept on our servers beyond the session.
Most-Requested Language Pairs
The pairs people translate most — start here
Every Language Pair We Support
Choose a source language and translate it into any target we cover
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