English → Portuguese Translation
English to Portuguese translation in one shortcut - works in every Mac app, powered by your favorite AI model.
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 distinguishes Brazilian from European Portuguese, which differ enough in pronoun placement and vocabulary that mixing them is noticeable to any native reader.
Result appears inline
The Portuguese is pasted back in place with pronoun placement matching the variant rather than blended between the two.
Example Translation
English (Original)
Our team will be traveling to São Paulo next month to finalize the partnership agreement. Could you arrange hotel accommodations?
Portuguese (Translated)
Nossa equipe viajará para São Paulo no próximo mês para finalizar o acordo de parceria. Você poderia providenciar as acomodações no hotel?
Translating English to Portuguese
Brazilian and European Portuguese are close enough to be one language and far enough apart that mixing them is obvious. Pronoun placement is the giveaway: Brazilians write me diga, Europeans diga-me, and text that alternates reads as machine output. Vocabulary splits too - trem versus comboio, ônibus versus autocarro, celular versus telemóvel - and the second person differs, with você standard in Brazil and tu still ordinary in Portugal. Portuguese also inflects for gender throughout, so an English sentence with no gendered words at all forces a decision the moment it is translated. Echoo holds one variant consistently across the passage instead of drifting, which is what makes translated Portuguese read as written rather than converted.
Recommended Setup
Best model for this pair
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite handles English to Portuguese 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
Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese differ significantly - specify "pt-BR" or "pt-PT" in your Echoo command for accurate results.
Portuguese uses cedilla (ç) and nasal vowels (ã, õ) - these render correctly in all Mac apps via Echoo.
For business contexts, Brazilian Portuguese tends to be slightly less formal than European Portuguese - configure accordingly.
Echoo handles the Portuguese personal infinitive correctly, a grammatical feature unique to Portuguese.
Frequently Asked Questions
By default, Echoo produces Brazilian Portuguese as it has more speakers globally. You can switch to European Portuguese in your command settings.
Yes. Echoo works well with technical content. For specialized terminology, add a glossary or context note to your command configuration.
Yes, both English and Portuguese are supported for voice dictation, so you can dictate in English and receive Portuguese output.
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