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Effortless cross-language companion. Instantly translate selected text on any website, speak a reply in your own language.
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# Echo – Effortless Cross-Language Replies (Chrome Store Detailed Description)
> **Echo** lets you translate selected text on any webpage, speak your reply in your native language, and instantly get a polished English (or any target-language) response—all *entirely* on your local browser. No data leaves your machine; your speech and translations remain 100 % private.
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### 🔑 Key Features
- **Context-menu translation**
Right-click any selected text → **Reply with Echo** → see the original text auto-translated into your native language.
- **Keyboard shortcut**
Or press **Ctrl + Shift + S** to translate the current selection and open Echo’s popup immediately.
- **Voice-powered reply**
Click the 🎤 button, speak your response in your native tongue, and watch Echo transcribe and translate in real time.
- **Typing fallback**
Prefer to type? Click the ⌨️ **Type reply** button and draft your answer manually—placeholder tells you which language to use.
- **One-click copy**
Each chat bubble has its own 📋 copy icon for ultra-fast clipboard copying of the final reply.
- **Completely private**
*All speech recognition and translation run **locally*** using Chrome’s on-device APIs. No audio or text is ever sent to external servers.
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## 📖 Usage Instructions
1. **Install & configure**
- Click the Echo toolbar icon or right-click selected text to launch the popup.
- (Optional) Open **Preferences**, choose your native language. Echo remembers it.
2. **Translate original text**
- In any webpage (e.g. Slack, Gmail, Twitter), select the English (or foreign) text you want to reply to.
- Right-click → **Reply with Echo**, or press **Ctrl + Shift + S**.
- Echo auto-detects and translates the selection into your native language.
3. **Speak your reply**
- Click the 🎤 **Speak reply** button.
- Speak naturally in your native language—pauses up to a few seconds won’t cut you off.
- Echo captures your speech, shows the transcription, and translates it back into the original language in real time.
4. **Or type your reply**
- Click the ⌨️ **Type reply** button.
- The input placeholder will read _“Type your reply in <YourLanguage>…”_ so you know exactly which language to use.
- Press **Enter** or click **Send** to see your translation.
5. **Copy & paste**
- Hover over any bubble to reveal the 📋 icon.
- Click it to copy that bubble’s text to your clipboard.
- Paste it into Slack, email, or any chat window—ready to send.
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### 🔒 Privacy & Security
- **100 % on-device processing**
Echo uses Chrome’s built-in SpeechRecognition and Translator APIs. All audio capture, transcription, and translation happen in your browser—**no data is sent to external servers**.
- **No logs, no accounts**
Echo does not store your speech or texts on any server or local database. Everything clears when you close the popup.