What is Glate?

Galte is a Google Translator and text-to-speech synthesizer for the Linux desktop platform which is clean, simple, and feature-rich.


Key characteristics of Glate:

  • Decide on your selected source and target languages, between more than 104 languages.
  • Translation from line to line.
  • Download mp3 files of synthesised speech.
  • Read a few passages of text Text-to-Speech Software.
  • Text translation background for information.
  • History can be exported in text (.txt) format.
  • Option for sharing translations with a built-in pastebin generator
  • HOTKEY for text translation from any website or application
  • Text to Speech, listen to the pronunciation.

  • Modes of Dark and Light
  • Take the translated text and paste it.
  • Glate will soon be releasing a number of interesting new features. Tell your friends, family, and coworkers about the app and website.


Other Key Points

  • Glate will auto detect the language while typing and convert into English, we can change the language from which source language to target/destination language as per the end user requirement/s.
  • Glate supports upto 5000 words to convert from one language to another language.
  • Glate can translate these languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu.
  • Glate is Licensed by MIT.
  • Languages used in Glate are C++, HTML, QMake, PLSQL.
  • Glate is a Productivity and utilities tool.



Pre-Requirements

1.Fresh installation of Ubuntu Desktop

2.Root login credential 


Step 1: Update and Upgrade Repositories

sudo apt update && upgrade -y


Step 2: Enable root login

sudo sed -i 's/#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config


Step 3: Restart ssh

sudo systemctl restart ssh


Step 4: Set password for root login, by default root password is not set

sudo passwd


Step 5: Login using root credentials

ssh root@ip-address


Step 6: Install snapd 

apt install snapd


Step 7: Install glate

snap install glate


Glate UI 

Here are the few Examples

In Telugu

Using Glate in Telugu


In Hindi

Using Glate in Hindi

we can check the history in glate, by clicking on translation history, which on the top left side of the ui.

Translation History

We can clear all the history from translation history if needed.



Therefore installation of Glate is successful on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop.


Reference:

https://snapcraft.io/install/glate/ubuntu#:~:text=Google%20translator%20for%20Linux%20Desktop


https://github.com/keshavbhatt/glate