LingPeek - Inline Text Translator

Translation that stays where you are reading. LingPeek is a focused Chrome extension for the small moments when an unfamiliar word, phrase, or sentence interrupts your reading. Select foreign-language text and LingPeek reveals the translation directly around the selected reading position. No separate translator tab. No copy-paste. No extra Translate button just to see the result. WHY LINGPEEK Most selection translators add another step: select text, find a translation action, open a detached result, close it, and find your place again. LingPeek is built around a shorter flow: Select → read → keep going. KEY FEATURES • Translate Lens The translation appears around the selected reading position without permanently replacing the webpage text. • Single-word & mixed-language support Select one word, a phrase, or a full sentence. For short selections and pages that mix multiple languages, LingPeek uses nearby context, page-language signals, Chrome language detection, and reliability checks to improve source-language detection and reduce unsuitable isolated-word results. This is especially useful for UI labels, technical terms, and foreign words embedded inside text written in another language. • Better handling of mixed-language pages Webpages often mix languages—for example, English interface terms inside Korean, Japanese, Chinese, or other text. LingPeek considers nearby same-script text and surrounding page context so short foreign-language selections are less likely to fail simply because the rest of the sentence uses another language. • Automatic or manual languages Leave the source language on automatic detection or choose it yourself. Choose the target language you want at any time. • Smart Trigger LingPeek stays quiet when the selected content is clearly not useful translation input, such as standalone URLs, email addresses, numbers, prices, file paths, hashes, command-only text, code-heavy selections, or text already in the target language. • Original text on Alt Hold Alt while Translate Lens is visible to temporarily reveal the original selected text. • Copy and site controls Copy the translation, pause LingPeek on an individual website, or disable it globally. • Local HTML support After you explicitly enable Chrome's “Allow access to file URLs” setting, LingPeek can also work with selectable text in local HTML pages you open. LOCAL-FIRST BY DESIGN LingPeek uses Chrome's built-in Translator. There is no LingPeek translation server and selected text is not sent to an external translation API. LingPeek includes: • No account • No translation history • No behavioral analytics • No advertising • No external translation API • No sale of user data Selected text and, when needed, a limited amount of nearby context are temporarily processed only to provide the translation interaction. Extension preferences are stored locally in Chrome. Chrome may prepare or download browser-managed language resources the first time a source and target language pair is used. LANGUAGES LingPeek supports a broad set of languages available through Chrome, including English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, Thai, and more. Actual language-pair availability and translated wording are determined by the user's Chrome installation. REQUIREMENTS • Desktop Google Chrome 138 or newer • A language pair available through Chrome's built-in Translator • Ordinary selectable text on an accessible webpage CURRENT SCOPE LingPeek is intentionally focused on selected webpage text. It does not provide full-page translation, PDF translation, OCR, image translation, subtitle translation, or input-field translation. Chrome-controlled pages, Chrome Web Store pages, protected browser surfaces, inaccessible frames, canvas-rendered text, and some custom editors may not support the normal selection workflow. LingPeek is designed for users who want to understand unfamiliar text without interrupting their reading flow. Select. Peek. Understand.