Speak & Translate - Translator Reviews

by Disappointedpayingcustomer

I bought SpeakTranslate a while ago, couple years back paid $39 or something like that. At the time it was ok, I was in Germany and needed speech to speech translator & it came with offline speech to speech translation version with many other feature that was crucial to be able to speak choppy broken German through SpeakTranslate that some give puzzled looks but after quick read most can decipher its meaning, but it does not understand a lot of dialects or any slang. It is a one for one translator. That sometimes does not pick up on certain accents like my thick Texas accent. But it was sub par to begin with and now i am back in Germany and pull out my expensive translator to find out all the feature I once had are now being hustled at $6,99 A month after the high initial cost of buying SpeakTranslate that was sub par to begin with I don’t see any extra add on features, except what I used to already get when I purchased SpeakTranslate . What justifies the price gouging after i already paid a premium price at the initial purchase & now I don’t get what I already paid for. Might as well use google same translation it’s free and works about the same especially if you have to be online now

by Killian1995

Like many other reviewers here, I just realized that SpeakTranslate has been charging me for over a year for a subscription that I never agreed to. I never even used this stupid app, I deleted it within minutes of installing once I realized it was trying to get me to sign up for an premium subscription.
Since then SpeakTranslate has been charging me $5.49 per month, which happens to be the exact same fee as my iTunes subscription so the billing notifications look identical. Apple refuses to refund me, looks like this unethical developer is refusing all the hundreds of other customers who have had the exact same experience as me.
I don’t expect I will receive any refund at this point, so I will just say SHAME ON YOU.
$100 is a huge amount of money for me, as it is for many people, and you have done nothing short of STEAL IT FROM OUT OF MY POCKET.
I am extremely disappointed that Apple seems to be okay with this kind of fraud being perpetrated through their platform.

by Kingjeremythewicked

The best translate app now wants to rob you with a monthly premium. I’m sad and mad at the same time. This use to be worth every penny now it’s just trying to rob you blind. (Hey developer when all apps on computers and phones start charging months (no one will use them)) greed is going to ruin you.

And the best part is the developers tried to respond with monthly fees will help you crap... You only want a monthly fee now years later because you can't sell your app . I'm so disappointed in you.

So they changed their response so I’ll add this. Once again the developer tries to lie and say month subscriptions are a way to save money. So let’s do the math....

Pay a one time fee let’s say $10usd v pay $5 per month. Now you keep SpeakTranslate like all other apps on my phone in definitely.... after 2 months I am not saving a dime and the developer is making money off of a program that I already paid for. As I said before, greedy is what you are, you are not evolving you are devolving this product and I’m not going to forgive you. You want to tell me I’m saving money... yes I’ll save money but not wasting it on this good for nothing monthly fee. ( btw there’s a 15$ translator that does more than SpeakTranslate ever will. )

by Lianaabc

I’ve been completely gypped!😫 a few months ago I did a free trial without realizing SpeakTranslate costs $40! Never would’ve gone for that since google is free. But during the trial it was useful and worked well so I justified it after I got charged. Then a few weeks later an “updated” version was forced upon me and now it’s the worst app I’ve ever experienced! There’s never a time when I open SpeakTranslate and it’s not frozen. Sometimes is a takes one to two minutes and then it catches up with what I’ve been trying to do. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all! There’s also never a time when I go to paste a sentence to be translated and it doesn’t let me paste until many tries later. To get a simple translation is always at least a two minute ordeal! I am deleting SpeakTranslate because it’s one of the more frustrating parts of my day, and I strongly feel I deserve a refund!

by Spacepersonz

I don't understand why someone would rate SpeakTranslate 5 stars. I have a few problems with this that I saw many other people had as well.
1: Translations
I went to Japan (and I speak a little Japanese so I used SpeakTranslate) and I noticed that some translations seemed weird. For example, I asked someone where the bathroom was and the translation to English said; "the bathroom is in the room" so you need to fix the translations.
2: Pop up ads
They are everywhere you click. When I try to type something in, it shows a 30 second pop up ad (that is usually grammarly coincidentally) and it messed up my text. Sometimes it even translate what I wrote, with is usually 3-4 words. So, I understand you want to make money, but get rid of the pop up ads.
3: The "Premium scam"
A lot of people have been scammed with the premium feature. Sadly, one including me. I bought this feature and when I re-opened SpeakTranslate , it was gone. So, I unsubscribed from the feature and bout it again. This time, it said I already have it. So I can't get it again. I had to end up ending my credit card so the payments would stop.

So, in conclusion, just use google translate. It is free, and you don't need to worry about pop up ads or any translation problems.
Hope this was helpful for people just getting SpeakTranslate.

by No One 1234567

I am trying to fix the issue I have with SpeakTranslate with the support team, and I am getting nowhere for a month now. Wen I purchased SpeakTranslate it had an option to speak and translate from Bulgarian to English. I did the huge mistake to subscribe and pay for one year 39$ and this option stopped working. It keeps giving me a message that I am offline and the voice option is not available, just the write. I purchased it so I can use the speak and translate. I contacted the support, they usually reply in a week after your email and they are sending me info to cancel. Even if I do it cancelled after the subscription period of one year. So basically I spent 39$ for something that does not work, no one addressed my question about this offline bs, and it is totally waste of money

by J Gathright

I didn’t purchase any subscriptions or upgrades with SpeakTranslate for starters. It worked pretty well too. I was annoyed that I couldn’t translate that much because after a lot of using SpeakTranslate (like translating a bit) it’s say i had to upgrade to use SpeakTranslate more which I understood cause, you know, I didn’t pay for anything. But what really got to me was that there were times where I would open SpeakTranslate and try to click something and NOTHING would work! Legitimately, it wasn’t even the fact that I “ran out of translates” or whatever. SpeakTranslate just wouldn’t work for me and would be stuck on the home page. I tried tapping every button and nothing would budge. I got really angry with that and just deleted SpeakTranslate . I don’t really know it this is a constant struggle for people who use SpeakTranslate but, it was for me. I’m done

by Yomommasougly

I bought this to use at work. I am a nurse and thought this would come in handy. Every patient I’ve tried to use this with has not been able to under stand what the translation is saying. I reached out to the company after two days and asked how I could cancel my subscription and they never got back to me. I had assumed that meant they deactivated my account for me but that was not the case. Instead they drained my account!!😡 would not recommend use google translate. SpeakTranslate isn’t even easy to use. I took my a lot of clicking to figure out how to switch languages and I considered myself teach savvy. Don’t buy, waste of money.
Edit**: the company responds to my post with what is on their website. Like obviously I contacted them because I couldn’t figure it out. Like the company is literally no help even when being reviewed. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

by Gifulrydubljphd

SpeakTranslate works great when it works. I click on the button on the screen and nothing happens. I have restarted my phone and still nothing. This has happened a few times now but this time it has been a few days. I pay for SpeakTranslate so any help to fix the glitch would be great.

Edit: You have reached out and I can not respond to you because SpeakTranslate will not work so I hope this helps. I’m not really sure what started this issue. I go to SpeakTranslate and it opens but I can not click anything on the screen. It would appear that my phone is frozen but I can use any other app and the the touch screen works perfectly but when I go to SpeakTranslate there is nothing. I have restarted my phone multiple times but still I can not click on any button on SpeakTranslate.

by TarterCarter

I’m sick of it. I literally use it everyday when there’s something I really need to explain to my girlfriend. The problem is when it goes to translate it hangs up. I can be in the middle of telling her something very important and it just sits there.... hung. The translator “button” you press just spins and it doesn’t return a translation. Why don’t free translators do this? So I have to kill SpeakTranslate and reopen. Sometimes I have to do that a few times before I can get it to cooperate. I have been doing automatic updates, so I know I’m at the latest version.

I tricked myself into thinking that a paid app would ENSURE that it would ease and speed up the translation process on a day to day basis. If I keep using this trash, I’ll end up throwing my phone through the wall. I’m done with it. WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME. IT NEVER IMPROVED!!!!!!!

by Mycroft's Hommie

SpeakTranslate was downloaded simply to view and try out compared to my other free apps, somehow it tricks you or slips into a subscription I did not want.. these traps must stop, no I cannot tell you how worth it SpeakTranslate is because it was limited with languages and filled with pop ups and be carful with your fingerprint button popping up, because one mistake touch.. and your lured into a subscription. I did not want a Subscription! Not figuring out apple’s new ios or whatever the reason be, they charge me and did not want to refund me.. bad Buisness ethics, I’m sorry for the negative review, but until I receive a refund, it stays because I did not want a subscription. No matter what the case may be, whether you want to try out SpeakTranslate or test it.. be careful!

P.S. Please return my wrongfully taken money!

by Pablopicoso

Too many steps involved when you want to just do a quick translation.

You’re buttons to translate are not necessary to be so big. A simple switch button between the flags is enough to switch the direction of the translation. That is what the arrows between the flags is for. Just like any map app, you switch there. You have a redundancy to enter text. One flag or the other.

So now let’s say I don’t want to translate from English to Italian. How do you choose another language? A tiny nondescript button lets you do that. You’re only looking at it as if I’m in their country so one language access is fine but I live in NYC. Anyone from any language could be my next need for a translation. You buried the alternate language choices.

by Jaden Guardanapo

I really like SpeakTranslate and how it functions, but I don’t really like how there is a daily limit. I get it you need money so you can stay in business or something like that, but I can’t understand people now that I’m in America. What I mean is, I live in Portugal and I don’t really know English very well so I used SpeakTranslate to help me write this whole thing and boom it tells me the daily limit has been reached so now I can’t really communicate with them. And you may be asking “if it already ran out then why are you still typing this”, and the awnser to that is because this is the exact thing In copied and pasted. I hope you can make the daily limit maybe a little more. Thank you

~Alexis Guardanapo

by -tungsten75-

Ok, so in general SpeakTranslate is pretty good. It lets you translate into more languages than Google Translate, and isn’t that inaccurate at translation. The only thing is that would you rather have a daily transation limit, or pay $20 for a few more languages than Google Translate? I get it, you guys are trying to make money, but maybe considering adding more languages and other features to make it worth the price in the full version. To be honest, this isn’t that bad. Oh also one other thing, I feel as if you guys are taking Google Translate and adding some extra languages, because for all of the languages in Google Translate, it says it was translated via Google Translate. No worries, this isn’t that bad and has a wide language variety. Thank you. -Winston H.

by Tmmk1

I got this to use for a Spanish class so I could listen to sentences I’m stuck on and have it translated. It works for the most part, I think google translate works better, but the biggest problem I have is with SpeakTranslate itself. When I open it and try to use the microphone SpeakTranslate freezes and I can’t do anything, I’ve restarted my phone and updated SpeakTranslate , the only thing that works is letting SpeakTranslate sit open for a few minutes before I use it. In the time I’m waiting I can use another translating service before SpeakTranslate even works. For an app that I’m paying for and with this many users I feel like technological issues should be at a minimum with SpeakTranslate .

by C.morrow

I got the free trial for it to be able to translate a box with Korean writing couldn’t translate. Now I am trying to cancel my subscription before I get charged and when I select manage subscriptions it takes me to broken webpage where I can’t cancel my membership. I can’t do anything on the webpage!

EDIT: After going through I decided to add two stars. The way you cancel in going to manage subscriptions inside your Apple account. There is a way to cancel so it is not fraudulent but they should not have a manage account button if it takes you no where. They should also provide a transparent FAQ section that explains clearly how to cancel the subscription rather then having to go through reviews to figure out how to cancel the subscription.

by Sambandar

I have used SpeakTranslate in conjunction with Babbel (French) when the Babbel app does not come close to interpreting what I was saying. (The problem, as S&T proved, was an argument between my iMac and Babbel.) When S&T worked, it was great. One day it froze each time I opened it. Restarting my iPhone and opening SpeakTranslate again did not solve the issue. I cancelled my subscription, which should still be active for a few more days, but when I deleted SpeakTranslate to reload it (which I should have done before canceling) it only offered a free trial or new subscription. Fair enough.

For my purposes, it was exceptional. But with a monthly charge, hassles are intolerable.

by HappyPlayTime

This provides great fun for practicing my Italian. I just wish it would correct or help with my pronunciation. It will only speak the translated phrase unlike apps like Mate which can add audio to both phrases. Also useful to add, would be the ability to save both the Italian phrase and the English translation. Regardless, this is fun to use simply as a language learner. Its voice recognition seems more accurate for me than other apps I tried. Unfortunately for Mate. it still has many problems.

by Soldier Day

I love SpeakTranslate because sometimes my grammar double not all the time but sometime she kind of has trouble understanding words and she knows Hindi which is the main language of India so I just like SpeakTranslate and it really helps I just want you guys to create more apps that I would love to load and it’s been a good app for people to translate voice and it also helps understand if you don’t know the language thank you and if you have more apps just send reminders and how to spell wonderful time and whoever gets my reviews have a wonderful time and hope you enjoy the shop thank you and that’s all I want to say

by RABleakney

This was perfect- while I am still learning a new language - having this to fall back in has been a huge relief.
We have used free services - but simply speaking and having it detect that I have finished talking - starting the translation immediately - makes the conversation much more fluid- is worth the monthly fee! Will bring this on our travels - and know that no mater where our travels take us - we can find a transition tool for one monthly fee. For just the price of a coffee. Best coffee money i have spent in a ling time.

by Fhfjsnv

Don’t get SpeakTranslate. It works the same as google translate, and we all know google translate does not work. The ad is fake. I tried speaking and translating, and when I switched back, it said the same exact thing in the other language. It also didn’t translate correctly. Don’t get SpeakTranslate. It’s the same as google translate. Why do people rate this 5 stars? It’s not worth 5 stars. Also, I hate the pop up ads. When you’re in a conversation, there will be an ad that interrupts translation. I doubt people will understand what I’m saying if I translate
through text OR voice. SpeakTranslate is bad, NOT worth 4 stars.

I’m pretty convinced that the developer message is just a bot or automatically responding to each and every message. You can’t convince me to reinstall SpeakTranslate . I’m not using it ever again.

by ZebraCat1519

I was in France for a week and none of my family knew French. So I got SpeakTranslate while in France to help but in the middle of a conversation with someone, adds would pop up and half of my translations were wasted on apologizing to the person for the add. And then I ran out of translations, once more, while in the middle of the conversation. And we couldn't understand each other. SpeakTranslate has embarrassed me so much that I seriously believe that it should either be taken off SpeakTranslate Store or just remove the stupid premium option. No one is going to pay $20 a year for something this small and sometimes even relatively useless. Also their rating reply system is just a bot. They're all the same replays to similar complaints and problems.

by SweetBBW63

I had purchased SpeakTranslate about two years ago and then when I returned back to an iPhone I went to get this program again and saw that it was a monthly subscription. Every time I try to open it up it prompts me to purchase a subscription and I did purchase a subscription about five days ago and I’m going to be billed again in December but every time I open it up it tells me I need to pay and then when I clicked on the link to restore past purchases, I see now that it has a pending order and so I would advise anyone who wants to get SpeakTranslate to think twice about it or else you may be double charged and I find it upsetting that I paid about $30 for this a few years ago but now I have to pay for it every month. It is a very good app and I do a lot of world travel and it is quite accurate and having a voice that will offer you the correct punctuation is a plus and that is why I gave it to stars otherwise I would give it zero for the way that it continues to ask me to pay

by Cbrown5209

I encounter a lot of Spanish-speaking people daily and while I had taken some classes, years ago, to learn the language - I am nowhere near fluent. The main translation aspect of SpeakTranslate is pretty much flawless but an added bonus is that it really does help me learn and (frequently) practice the language as well, aiding in my goal of fluency. Thnx!

Yo encuentro un montón de español - hablando gente diariamente y mientras tuve tomado algunos classes , hace años que , aprender el idioma - yo soy en ninguna parte cerca fluido. El principal traducción aspecto del aplicación es casi perfecto pero un adicional prima es asi de verdad hace ayuadame aprender y ( frecuentemente ) práctica el idioma así como , aiding en mi gol de fluidez. Thnx!