How live translation works in Clovera Chat
Most apps put translation behind a button you press after you have already failed to read something. Clovera Chat does it the other way round: you set the language you read in, and messages arrive in it.
It is the reader's setting, not the writer's
Live translation is switched on per account, from settings or from the panel inside a conversation, and it changes only what you see. Nobody else's screen changes when you turn it on, and you never have to ask anyone to write differently. Two people in the same channel can be reading it in two different languages at the same time, and neither of them has to know.
Where it applies
Direct messages, group conversations and community channels alike — the same mechanism runs in all three, over the most recent stretch of the conversation rather than its whole history. Your own messages are never translated: you wrote them, you can already read them, and translating them back at you would only make the thread harder to follow.
The original is kept
A translation is shown alongside the message it came from, not instead of it. Nothing is overwritten, so a word that came out oddly can always be checked against what the person actually typed — which matters most in exactly the conversations where the translation matters most.
Which languages
Translation targets the language your interface is set to, and Clovera Chat's interface speaks ten: Turkish, English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Japanese. The app around the conversation is in the same language as the conversation, including right-to-left layout where the language calls for it.
Translated once, then remembered
Each message is translated once per target language and the result is stored — encrypted, like everything else — so scrolling back through a conversation does not re-translate it. Editing a message throws its cached translations away, so a corrected message is never left showing the translation of what it used to say.
What happens when it fails
If the translation backend is unavailable or returns something unusable, the conversation simply renders in the language it was written in. Live translation never holds up a message, never blocks a page, and never replaces a message with an error — a chat app whose chat stops working when a side feature does is not a chat app.
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