What is Lingviny?
Lingviny is a plugin for Gmail that enables our professional human translators to translate and send your email. To use Lingviny, you must login to Gmail or Google Apps with Safari or Chrome.
Lingviny is a plugin for Gmail that enables our professional human translators to translate and send your email. To use Lingviny, you must login to Gmail or Google Apps with Safari or Chrome.
Yes! All data with Lingviny is sent over HTTPS, the protocol banks use to transfer credit card data. Our credit card transactions are processed with Paddle. We use SSL encryption to protect your data.
It depends on the language pair. For example, we currently translate English into 45 other languages: Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bosnian Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Filipino, French, German, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tadzhik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Currently, you must be using Gmail through Chrome. Additionally, you must use the standard Gmail interface, not Google’s new Inbox interface.
We track turnaround times meticulously, and are always seeking to shorten them. Typical translations take 10-30 minutes. Some jobs, depending on the complexity of the content might take longer.
Your email is essentially sent by you. So your recipient(s) will always see only your name and email address when the message is sent.
Currently we do not support translations of graphic images. Any graphic images in your email will be sent as is, untranslated.
Currently we cannot translate any email attachments. They will be sent as is. Please note that we do not support any attachments sent via Google drive.
Install the Chrome extension, open your Gmail and you are all set!
After you click the Lingviny button, your email will be saved in your Drafts folder with the Label “Lingviny Pending”. Our translators will be notified and will begin translating your email message. When they are finished, your email's Label will change to “Lingviny Done”. The email will be in your Sent Mail folder. Please do not move your original message from the Drafts, otherwise we will not be able to send the translation.
Sure! We'd love to help you with that. Just chat with us - you’ll see the chat window in the lower right corner of your screen.
Yes, Google Apps uses Gmail to power the email for your company’s domain. As long as you’re using Chrome to access your email account it will work.
You must install the browser extension on each browser on each computer. For example, if you use Chrome, and you have a desktop, and a laptop, you must install the Lingviny Chrome extension on both the desktop and the laptop.
Lingviny has a pool of 1500+ carefully vetted translators scattered around the globe. They are language professionals who take pride in helping you deliver your message.
We at Lingviny are committed to keeping your private information safe. All of our translators have signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). And we will never use your account information for anything other than providing you the best service possible.
Like most other Gmail plug-ins, we need access to the full email data to be able to move and send messages.
No, we don’t have access to your Gmail password. You are authorizing us access to your account through Google’s official OpenID/OAuth systems.