English → Spanish Translation
Translate English to Spanish instantly on your Mac - no copy-pasting, no browser tabs. Just select, press, done.
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
Echoo sends the selection to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite, which picks a register before it picks words - tú or usted, vosotros or ustedes - instead of defaulting to whichever is most common in its training data.
Result appears inline
The Spanish replaces your selection in place, with inverted opening punctuation on questions and exclamations already applied.
Example Translation
English (Original)
Please confirm the meeting with the Madrid office for next Tuesday at 3 PM. We need to discuss the quarterly budget.
Spanish (Translated)
Por favor, confirma la reunión con la oficina de Madrid para el próximo martes a las 3 de la tarde. Necesitamos discutir el presupuesto trimestral.
Translating English to Spanish
English hides social distance; Spanish encodes it in every verb. The moment you translate "could you send me the file", you have to decide between tú and usted, and in Spain between vosotros and ustedes - a choice English never forced you to make. Get it wrong in a work email and you sound either presumptuous or oddly stiff. Spanish also runs longer than English by roughly 20-25%, so text that fit a button label or a subject line often will not after translation. Then there is the regional split: coger is unremarkable in Madrid and vulgar in much of Latin America, and the vos forms used across Argentina and Central America are absent from textbook Spanish. Echoo keeps the register you established rather than flattening everything to neutral textbook Spanish.
Recommended Setup
Best model for this pair
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite handles English to Spanish 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
Echoo preserves the formal "usted" vs informal "tú" register - add context in your prompt to specify which you prefer.
For Latin American Spanish vs Castilian Spanish, mention the target region in your Echoo command settings.
Spanish translations tend to be 15-25% longer than English - keep this in mind for UI strings and character-limited fields.
Use Echoo's custom instructions to handle gender-neutral language preferences in Spanish.
Frequently Asked Questions
By default Echoo produces neutral Spanish, but you can configure your translation command to target a specific dialect - Mexican, Argentine, Castilian, or any other variant.
Yes. Select all text in your document and trigger the shortcut. For very long documents, Echoo automatically chunks the text to stay within model context limits.
Modern AI models like Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite produce translations that are comparable to professional human translators for general content. Technical or legal texts may benefit from a review pass.
Yes - both English and Spanish support voice dictation in Echoo. Dictate in English and set your command to output the translation in Spanish.
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