Google Translate Plugin
July 31, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
This plugin is an OVOS language plugin for OpenVoiceOS. It provides text translation and language detection through Google Translate, without an API key.
The package registers two plugins:
ovos-google-translate-plugin: translates text between languages.ovos-google-lang-detector-plugin: detects the language of a text.
Install
pip install ovos-google-translate-plugin
Usage
Other components use this plugin to translate utterances and texts, for example solvers and ovos-bidirectional-translation-plugin.
Add this to one of the configuration files (for example ~/.config/mycroft/mycroft.conf):
"language": {
"detection_module": "ovos-google-lang-detector-plugin",
"translation_module": "ovos-google-translate-plugin"
}
Related projects
- ovos-bidirectional-translation-plugin: translates utterances in both directions around a pipeline that only understands one language.
- ovos-plugin-manager: loads and manages OVOS plugins, including this one.
License
Apache-2.0