FileTranslator

Powered by Microsoft Translator, FileTranslator is a Metro application that you can use to translate text between two languages. It gives you the possibility to load content from file.

The app can be quickly downloaded and installed from the Windows Store on computers running Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. It's packed in a modern UI with a navy blue background, showing two large boxes for entering text and viewing the output.

You can get started by picking the source and output languages from two menus. Unfortunately, FileTranslator doesn't have a feature for automatically detecting the input language.

In the next step, you can either type or paste text, or open a file from the computer, as long as it has the .txt format. After clicking the "Translate" button, the tool displays the new text in the output language.

The output text can be saved as a new plain text document by just indicating the file name and destination folder. You can click the button between the input and output language to swap the two, as well as click the button below the text boxes to activate a text-to-speech tool for the input text.

Unfortunately, while the text-to-speech function indeed worked in several cases in our tests, it failed in others and triggered the language translator to quit unexpectedly.

FileTranslator gets integrated with the Windows share charm, so you can take a screenshot of the visible content and send the picture to an external Modern UI program if you want to save it as a file or send it to a friend.

All things considered, FileTranslator delivers a straightforward option for converting text and files between any two languages supported by Microsoft Translator.

It has a swap button, lets you save the output text, and can speak the input content. However, the text-to-voice feature failed in some circumstances in our evaluation.