Overview
- The service is live at chatgpt.com/translate as a dedicated web app offering context-aware, tone-adjustable translations in more than 50 languages.
- On desktop the new interface currently handles plain text only, with no support for image uploads or translation of documents, webpages, or handwriting.
- Image and speech translation promoted on OpenAI’s site presently require using the regular ChatGPT web app rather than the standalone translator.
- OpenAI is targeting incumbents Google Translate and DeepL, which support broader formats and, in Google’s case, more than 100 languages.
- There is no standalone mobile app at launch, and coverage cites a forecast that AI translation could reach about $5.73 billion by 2028.