Observed arrival · 2026-11-10
Echo Glass: a translation lens for Mac
A Mac app that overlays translations on readable screen text and provides translated captions for Mac audio or microphone input.
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- For
- Apple silicon Mac users reading or listening across languages
- Worth noticing
- Normal use does not save captured images, audio, or captions; Glass’s in-memory cache clears after ten minutes.
Field notes
Glass follows the pointer over text in another app and keeps translated passages aligned with their sources; the page also says users can click and scroll through the lens. Echo can listen to Mac audio or a selected microphone, then finish a buffered phrase when listening stops. The site says prepared supported configurations work offline after needed language resources are downloaded, while normal use does not save captured material.
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