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Telegram 8.4: Reactions, Spoilers, Translation and QR Codes (telegram.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

They missed the opportunity to introduce spoilers for pictures too :(

Anyway, a few notes about translations:

  • language detection is done locally using google's language ID kit, when an user taps on a message (language detection and the "translate" option are disabled by default and the user needs to enable the feature from the language settings)
  • when an user uses the "translate" option, Telegram sends a request containing the target language and the text to translate from your device to an undocumented Google Translate endpoint (the one the Translate app uses) with a desktop user-agent, and then shows the result. I wonder what Google thinks about this weird implementation, since their translation APIs (those developers are supposed to use) are paid...

And anyway, I hope there will be an option in the future to disable the reactions animation. And also more emojis (namely: ๐Ÿ‘€ )

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

So Telegram now uses Google Translate? No wonder it can detect typos, yet be able to translate correctly.

I totally agree with you regarding the animations for reactions. But I hope that they add a setting where you can choose your own reactions (max 5 or 10). That would be awesome!