Mouse Tooltip Translator for Chrome

It isn't a bad idea to have a translator by your side. Every now and then, you stumble upon some text in a foreign language, and the only way to decipher its meaning is through a translator. Online solutions do well to provide somewhat accurate translations, but as you find yourself using them more and more, a dedicated extension can be a more convenient way to go about this process.

Aiming to deliver a truly effortless translating experience, Mouse Tooltip Translator for Chrome is a solution to consider. Much like its name would suggest, its core functionality rests on hovering your cursor over some text in a foreign language, and it'll provide you with an appropriate translation almost instantaneously.

Translating text on cursor hover sounds like the most obvious and intuitive avenue for a translator extension, yet it's the implementation that matters the most. Managing to offer this functionality in a way that's easy to utilize, while also being practical and not obstructing one's workflow, is the real challenge.

Many will be satisfied with what's on for offer here. With the tools you're given, even translating text can become somewhat fun. Select the language you wish to translate into, a translator between Google and Bing, and configure when you want such an operation to trigger: on hover, text selection, or both.

After that, it's really as easy as you would expect: hover over whatever passage it is you wish to translate, and the extension will present the translated text in a tooltip just above your cursor. You can even exclude certain languages from translation.

The tooltip isn't too obstructive, but if you find it on the bigger side, you can tweak its visual appearance by modifying its width and font size. If you wish to save a certain translation for later, right-clicking the text, and select Save from the resulting context menu. This will save it in the extension's interface, allowing you to easily go back to it anytime you wish.

An automatic TTS function is available for use. It works rather well, and you can even modify the enunciation speed and volume, but it does trigger way too often. To address that, you can set a hotkey to activate the feature in times of need.

Mouse Tooltip Translator for Chrome makes for a quite solid translator implementation: it's effortless enough that you don't really think about it — just hover your mouse over some foreign text to translate, and that's that — which is an achievement by itself.