How to Use Helperbird in Your Language

Helperbird is translated into over 65 languages. Learn which languages are supported and how Helperbird automatically matches the language your computer is set to.

How It Works

Helperbird is translated into over 65 languages. You do not need to change any settings inside the extension — Helperbird automatically detects the language your computer or browser is set to and displays all menus, labels, and feature names in that language.

If your computer is set to French, Helperbird will appear in French. If your computer is set to Japanese, Helperbird will appear in Japanese. It is that simple.


Supported Languages

Helperbird currently supports the following languages:

  • Afrikaans (af)
  • Amharic (am)
  • Arabic (ar)
  • Azerbaijani (az)
  • Bulgarian (bg)
  • Bengali (bn)
  • Bosnian (bs)
  • Catalan (ca)
  • Czech (cs)
  • Welsh (cy)
  • Danish (da)
  • German (de)
  • Greek (el)
  • English (en)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Estonian (et)
  • Persian (fa)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • Filipino (fil)
  • French (fr)
  • Irish (ga)
  • Gujarati (gu)
  • Hebrew (he)
  • Hindi (hi)
  • Croatian (hr)
  • Hungarian (hu)
  • Armenian (hy)
  • Indonesian (id)
  • Icelandic (is)
  • Italian (it)
  • Japanese (ja)
  • Georgian (ka)
  • Khmer (km)
  • Kannada (kn)
  • Korean (ko)
  • Lao (lo)
  • Lithuanian (lt)
  • Latvian (lv)
  • Macedonian (mk)
  • Malayalam (ml)
  • Marathi (mr)
  • Malay (ms)
  • Burmese (my)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (nb)
  • Nepali (ne)
  • Dutch (nl)
  • Norwegian (no)
  • Polish (pl)
  • Portuguese — Brazil (pt)
  • Portuguese — Portugal (pt-PT)
  • Romanian (ro)
  • Russian (ru)
  • Sinhala (si)
  • Slovak (sk)
  • Slovenian (sl)
  • Albanian (sq)
  • Serbian (sr)
  • Swedish (sv)
  • Swahili (sw)
  • Tamil (ta)
  • Telugu (te)
  • Thai (th)
  • Turkish (tr)
  • Ukrainian (uk)
  • Urdu (ur)
  • Uzbek (uz)
  • Vietnamese (vi)
  • Chinese (zh)
  • Zulu (zu)

How to Change Your Language

Since Helperbird follows your computer or browser language, you can change the language Helperbird displays in by changing your system or browser language settings.

On Windows

  1. Open Settings and go to Time & Language
  2. Click Language & Region
  3. Set your preferred language as the display language
  4. Restart your browser for the change to take effect

On Mac

  1. Open System Settings and go to General
  2. Click Language & Region
  3. Drag your preferred language to the top of the list
  4. Restart your browser for the change to take effect

On Chrome (browser language only)

  1. Open Chrome and go to Settings
  2. Click Languages in the left sidebar
  3. Add or move your preferred language to the top of the list
  4. Restart Chrome for the change to take effect

After restarting your browser, Helperbird will automatically display in the new language.


Video Tutorial

Coming soon


Need Additional Help?

If Helperbird is not showing in your preferred language, or if you would like to help translate Helperbird into a new language, reach out to our Helperbird support team. We would love to hear from you!

What People Are Saying

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This chrome extension is absolutely amazing. I'm a Primary school teacher and it helps children with a broad range of needs. It's so easy to set up. I love the way it syncs across devices so set up is seamless across all the children's computers. The customizable features are a game changer for allowing children to enjoy reading and accessing the web in our school. The best application I have ever seen for school children. Looking forward to trying the iPad application soon.

Luke Mccarthy

Luke Mccarthy

Teacher

Immersive Reader from Microsoft is amazing, but my friends in Google districts were missing out until I found Helperbird. Great for proofreading! Simply highlight the text and have it read back to you, change the spacing in your view, highlight parts of speech, even translate by word or by document to have it read to you and adjust the speed! So amazing that I posted a YouTube tutorial within days of installing it. Plus, unlike many extensions, it didn't ask for obnoxious permissions like asking to delete everything in my Google Drive. #Winner #a11y

GK Techies

GK Techies

Helperbird user

I've been meaning to write this review for a while now. My daughter is newly diagnosed with dyslexia and I heard an interview with Robert on a Newstalk podcast and sought it out. I wasn't sure if I had it installed correctly on her laptop and Robert was on straight away to help. He was amazing. This app has changed everything for my daughter. Everything is accessible to her and everyday tasks and schoolwork are so much easier. She also has visual stress so the coloured overlay feature is a game changer for her. I would highly recommend this app to anyone, she couldn't be without it now!

James Summer

James Summer

Helperbird user

I am an assistive technology consultant for 30 school districts. I am adding Helperbird to the list of reading resources that I have available.

Denise Young

Denise Young

Parent

It works Amazing!

A Google User

A Google User

Helperbird user

Let me tell you, I didn't know how badly I needed this until I got it. It was much like when I got glasses, I had just assumed that was how everyone saw the world...then it wasn't. Thank you Helperbird for the efforts you put forth in this lovely extension for everyone to use. The fact that you can use so much on the free just goes to show that this is something to help aid people not just some money grab. However with the pricing it still couldn't be a money grab. Thank you all again for the efforts you put forth so others can enjoy the internet more fully.

Matthew Burns

Matthew Burns

Health care worker

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