English → Italian Translation
English to Italian translation that sounds natural - AI-powered, available in every Mac app with a single shortcut.
How It Works
Select your text
Highlight the text you want to translate in any application - email, a document, a browser tab, or a chat window.
Press the shortcut
Hit your configured Echoo keyboard shortcut. Nothing is copied to the clipboard and no window opens.
AI translates
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite settles the tu/Lei question from your source register and applies it across the passage rather than sentence by sentence.
Result appears inline
The Italian is pasted back in place with elisions and article contractions handled the way written Italian requires.
Example Translation
English (Original)
The restaurant is fully booked for Saturday evening, but we have availability on Sunday. Would you like to reserve a table for four?
Italian (Translated)
Il ristorante è al completo per sabato sera, ma abbiamo disponibilità per domenica. Desidera prenotare un tavolo per quattro?
Translating English to Italian
Italian formality runs through Lei, which is grammatically third person - so choosing it changes verb conjugations throughout, not just the pronoun. Articles contract with prepositions in ways that are compulsory rather than stylistic: di plus il becomes del, in plus la becomes nella, and writing them apart marks the text as foreign at once. Adjectives agree with the noun in gender and number and usually follow it, reversing English order. Italian also elides vowels before vowels - l'acqua, not la acqua - and skipping the elision reads as clumsy. Business Italian keeps formulas English abandoned, so an email closed the English way can seem curt even when every word is correct.
Recommended Setup
Best model for this pair
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite handles English to Italian best in our testing. Any provider you have configured will work - this is the one to pick if you have a choice.
Voice dictation
Dictation is supported for English, so you can speak instead of typing and have the result translated in the same step.
Tips for Better Translations
Italian uses formal "Lei" and informal "tu" - specify the register in your Echoo command for business vs casual contexts.
Italian text is generally 10-15% longer than English - slightly less expansion than French or German.
For regional Italian expressions, specify the region (Toscana, Sicilia, etc.) in your command configuration.
Italian double consonants and accent marks are handled accurately by all recommended AI models.
Frequently Asked Questions
By default, Echoo uses polite Italian (Lei form). You can switch to informal (tu form) in your command settings for casual communication.
Yes. Echoo handles specialized vocabulary well, including culinary terms where Italian has specific expressions that differ from direct translations.
Very accurate for general and business content. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and Claude both produce natural, fluent Italian that reads well to native speakers.
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