One of our goals is to integrate as much power into Nice Translator as possible, while leaving it sleek and uncluttered. We’ll be keeping this page updated with information about the Tips ‘N Tricks hiding under Nice Translator’s hood. If you have suggestions for a simple but powerful feature, feel free to comment below. 
Done with your translation? Hit the Escape key
If you’re all done with your current translation and want to move on to the next quickly, just hit the ‘Esc’ key while your cursor is in the input box. You’ll have a clean slate to start from in no time.
Translate Even Faster using Scripted URLs
Nice Translator is fast, but using a scripted URL, you can get to your translations even faster. Nice Translator takes the following parameters from its URL:
t or txt - the text you'd like translated
trs - the translators that will open automatically; a list of comma separated language codes
src - the translation source language to be used; a single language code
nws - set this to 'no', 'n' or '0' if you do not want the news to be displayed
If you have been to Nice Translator before and do not specify any translators, it will use the last translators that you had open. If you haven’t been to NT before and don’t specify any, it will add an English translator by default. Here are some examples:
http://www.nicetranslator.com?t=hello
(last time I was at NT, I had English, French and Russian translators open)
http://www.nicetranslator.com?t=hello&trs=es,de,pt
http://www.nicetranslator.com?t=hello&nws=n
Firefox Users: Use Scripted URLs & Keywords to make NT even faster
On my computer, using Firefox, all I need to type to translate the phrase ‘hello friend’ from Nice Translator is: ‘nt hello friend’. It even translates right into the languages I’m slowly learning. Here’s how you set it up:
First, bookmark Nice Translator. Then go to Bookmarks -> Recently Bookmarked -> Right-click on the NiceTranslator Bookmark -> Go to Properties. In this screen, set:
Location: http://www.nicetranslator.com?t=%s&trs=en,fr,es,it
Keyword: nt
Of course, change trs such that it transltes into the languages you’d like, and the keyword to whatever you’d like it to be. The critical part is t=%s. Here’s how mine looks:
Settings I use to get translations from Nice Translator super-fast.
You know all there is to know
Well, that’s it for now! But we’re working everyday to make Nice Translator simpler and more powerful to use, so keep an eye on our update-list and please let us know if you have any great ideas you’d like us to integrate into Nice Translator.
March 8th, 2009
Nice Translator is FANTASTIC!!! Just wondering, is there a way to translate an entire web page?? Or an entire document? I keep having to type line by line… it would be a great feature to do the whole thing at once..
March 12th, 2009
I think that Nice Translator is a very big help for many persons. But I get a lot of documents in different languages – so it would be a big help to translate the entire document at once. But it is at good idea, what you have made until now – thank you so much!!!
March 22nd, 2009
copy-paste
the great thing in life
April 14th, 2009
Nice Translator is FANTASTIC!!! Just wondering, is there a way to translate an entire web page?? Or an entire document? I keep having to type line by line… it would be a great feature to do the whole thing at once..
April 30th, 2009
hey you should really invent a bookmarklet that automatically recognizes selected text ! im sure you can
May 4th, 2009
dove lo posso scaricare
May 17th, 2009
I am getting acquainted with Nice Translator and like it. I do have a problem with any translating program I may use. I translate to/from Slovenian. How do I put a “v” over a “c”?
May 24th, 2009
it is really a nice translator, but it would be much nicer if there was: 1-autocorrection and suggestions for words, much easier.
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2- pronounciation of the word, much professional
May 29th, 2009
صبرينا كيف ابد كلامي صدقيني لااعرف
وانا متلهف الى الكتابة بكوني اعرف ان لسانكي سينطق وشفتاكي سستتحركان وانت يقراين ما اكتب لكي حبيبتي بعد صمت طويل
احبك صبرينا
June 3rd, 2009
orodja in delov naprave
June 27th, 2009
How do I delete a language,then add another ?
June 27th, 2009
Hi Gerald,
To remove a language, put your mouse over ‘add/remove’ (next to ‘Translators’) and then click on the language you’d like to remove.
You may also click on a language you’d like added to begin translating into it.
Enjoy!
-Nicky
July 30th, 2009
What happened to Thai and Turkish, they dissappeared with new version?
July 31st, 2009
why is not turkish?
August 1st, 2009
This does not work any more?
It used to work in Firefox smart search and Yubnub, http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=nicet (which I use all the time) now it doesn’t.
What’s happened?
August 5th, 2009
the new design is not working good ….
the main language it is hard to select it specially that languages in column ..
August 20th, 2009
Any way to get the romanized translations of languages that use non-Latin character sets (Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Thai, Hindi, etc)?
August 20th, 2009
Kurt,
We spent several weeks developing a Chinese -> Pinyin (romanized) algorithm. We launched it but took it down because it just wasn’t accurate enough.
We are very interested in pursuing romanization algorithms, but also have several other projects that we are working on so we have to get the most bang for our buck time-wise.
Ultimately, it’s on the back-burner now, but if any opportunities arrive to provide this, we will snap at them.
Thanks for your suggestion!
-Nicky
August 21st, 2009
Have been using Nice Translator to help me prepare an important presentation. But today it does not seem to work. Any idea when it might work again – I am beginning to panic!!!!!
Thanks
August 29th, 2009
nicetranslator very good and very helpful to translate into other foreign languages, but I want to Arabic, China and Japan is the translation by using Latin letters, too ..! nicetranslator thanks .. you is the best for ever ..^_^
September 29th, 2009
Saliut
September 29th, 2009
nicetraslator very good and very helpful to translate into other foreign languages ,but I want to Romain,French and Englich is the translation by using latin letters, too! nicetranslator thanks.. you is the best for ever.
October 8th, 2009
Wonderful! This is the best! Thank you!
October 12th, 2009
why does block translation no longer work. The line-by-line is very timeconsuming.
October 26th, 2009
love love looooove NT !
What i hope the most is for you to invent NT for mobile phones -that would be fantastic !
have to praise the one making NT – saves my life in billion of cases – haha
Defintly the best translator ever !
(from a dane)
October 27th, 2009
Please add a toolbar button
November 2nd, 2009
ik kan alleen nederlands, ik kan ik deze uitleg ook in het nederlands krijgen
November 5th, 2009
Greetings, thanks, and congratulations. I use NT all the time, for work and play, and I must say you have come up with one exciting engine.
Do you have plans for adding Latin?
Do you have plans for romanizing languages ? I have a particular interest in Cyrillics and Japanese. Which transliteration would you be using? English seems to be the most widely used transliteration for Japanese, but not for Arabic, for instance. Will you be getting into these rather vast questions anytime soon? If not, can you point us to other resources on the Web that are adressing them?
Again, my congratulations, and best wishes for the future.
J ¨
November 11th, 2009
I cannot find “add/remove” opn my Igoogle home page.
November 13th, 2009
halo saya butuh penterjenahan yang benar solid
November 15th, 2009
Is there a way to translate entire web pages? Like Wikipedia in another language to English?
Thanks!
November 25th, 2009
thank you for all the work you done it is a helpful website
November 27th, 2009
The NT website is great but haven’t figured out how the Firefox add-on works yet. There is no icon or toolbar anywhere on the browser.
December 30th, 2009
NT is a great tool. Very fast and easy! Thanks for making it available
Some asking for whole page translation, try google translation or babelfish.
For some multi lingual advanced translation i recommend Leo.org and Canoo.net
Happy new year to all
L
January 11th, 2010
Hi There Nice Translator Team,
It really good, maybe I should say the best I saw until now…
But, when I translate simple sentences it translate wonderful, but when I copy paste from other places such a document it does not translate well.
also we can not translate all documents or upload documents or even translate website.
I test the website when I entered it in the first time and copy paste one of my poems ( I am writing ).
It translate wonderful only I had to cut the poem to two because it did not let me to translate all the poem.
January 24th, 2010
Hello Nice Transators, is there any chance to switch the basic website (not the translation itself) to another language like f.i. German. I heared that this was possible in the past. Apprceiating your support here. Holger
January 25th, 2010
Dear NT team,
NT is a very useful tool, but from sometimes it became difficult to type on your window: I have to use the mouse several times to write inside the type-window.
Why? It is not possible to solve this problem?
Thank you very much
Marco
January 26th, 2010
Hey Marco,
What operating system and browser are you using?
Thanks!
-Nicky
February 5th, 2010
Anyone toying with the idea of live Instant Message Chat translations? X7Chat is a fully open source development package with a really nice layout and interface that could possibly be utilized for this type of application in a multi-source style. Any thoughts?
February 5th, 2010
I love nicetranslator
March 14th, 2010
VERY GOOD TRANSLATOR, CONGRATS.
I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO ALL MY TRANSLATIONS IN THE PAST, A SORT OF RECORDING OF ALL I HAVE DONE HERE SO FAR. ANY TIP TO DO SO?
THANKS
March 29th, 2010
great post , really good view on the subject and very well written, this certainly has put a spin on my day, many thanks from Thailand and sustain up the good work
September 5th, 2010
comparable Congratz!
September 5th, 2010
Wow! Outstanding! Fantastic! Till now I have used BabelFish which is so lame in comparison with NT. What am I saying? Comparison?! How dare I? NT’s translation quality, easy & pretty UI, parallel translating, Farsi (or Persian, my native language) support, are unbelievable. Of course, some little problems it has:
My current net browser is Opera-10.61 in which NT is not so correctly shown as expected, specially when magnifying (of course, not really important at all)
But the problem with Farsi which is not acceptable is on:
1. Rendering: Farsi is an RTL language, and when RTL is mixed with LTR, the appearance is unbearable and totally unreadable.
2. Its strange & funny translation: It seems NT doesn’t know anything about Farsi grammar, and it relies on word for word translation.
But I am hopeful about NT’s future. And it is definitely my present choice. Thanks for your efforts. Finally, I announce you my readiness to help NT for better Farsi translating tips. Please dont hesitate to contact me if you think I could do anything
Best Regards
January 27th, 2011
Very good translator. However, copy-paste does not work so well. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. And most of the info I need to translate comes from another source, so I’d really prefer not to waste time typing it all out. I know many people who would use your site more if the copy paste worked well, and consistently.
April 6th, 2011
Hello! Great site, a perfect tool to expand my own vocabularysite!
It would be great to be able to copy all translations in one time! (to be able to past them in excel in a column)
April 12th, 2011
Hello!
I hope you can tell me if the language codes to use in the “trs” parameter are from the ISO 639-1 standard ( see here: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php ).
Also, what is the precise limit of languages to put into “trs”?
Thank you!
May 14th, 2011
hank you for your helpful information! I might not have gotten this without any help! Could it be alright to reference reasons for this on my website easily add a backlink to this webpage?