Does Google Translate support Taiwanese? No.

As of mid-2026, Google Translate does not support Taiwanese (Taiwanese Hokkien, Tâi-gí 台語) in any form, text or voice. It was not among the 110 languages Google added in 2024, even though Cantonese was, and Microsoft Translator and DeepL do not support it either. If you typed something into Google and got Mandarin instead of Taiwanese, this is why. No major translation product covers the mother tongue of millions of Taiwanese families.

Why the big tools don't have it

Machine translation is trained on huge collections of written text, and Taiwanese is overwhelmingly a spoken language. Most fluent speakers never learned any Taiwanese writing system, so the parallel text that translation models feed on barely exists.

Taiwanese is not Mandarin

A second trap is that some tools claiming to “translate Taiwanese” actually output Traditional Chinese, which is written Mandarin. Taiwanese (Tâi-gí) is a variety of Southern Min, not a dialect of Mandarin, and the two spoken languages are not mutually intelligible. Written down, the words differ too: “have you eaten?” is 你食飽未 in Taiwanese 漢字 but 你吃飽了沒有 in Mandarin.

There is one real exception: skilled bilinguals can convert Mandarin text into Taiwanese as they read it. Much of Taiwanese-language TV news is still voiced that way, with anchors rendering Mandarin scripts on the fly, and Taiwanese-language writers point to those Mandarin scripts as one reason broadcast Taiwanese can sound unidiomatic. That conversion takes full command of both languages, and since schooling switched to Mandarin, most people in Taiwan read Chinese characters aloud as Mandarin. So if you need a translator, Mandarin text cannot tell you how something is said in Taiwanese. A useful Taiwanese translator gives you Taiwanese 漢字 or romanization (Tâi-lô or Pe̍h-ōe-jī), and ideally speaks it out loud.

The tools that do speak Taiwanese

Taiwan built its own tools, and several are very good. Here are the ones we recommend, starting with our own:

• This site: free English ↔ Taiwanese ↔ Mandarin translation with voice both ways. Speak Taiwanese and get English; type English and hear Taiwanese, with 漢字, Tâi-lô, and Pe̍h-ōe-jī, all in the browser without an account or daily cap. Try it now.
• iTaigi 愛台語: a community dictionary where you look up a word and hear it spoken by real people. Mandarin interface, word lookup rather than sentence translation.
• MOE Taiwanese dictionary: Taiwan's official dictionary with recorded pronunciations. Authoritative, but a dictionary, not a translator.
• ChhoeTaigi 找台語: searches nine full Taiwanese dictionaries plus dozens of other sources at once, from the 1870s to today. Probably the most comprehensive single place to look up a Taiwanese word.
• PhahTaigi 拍台語: a Taiwanese keyboard for Android and iOS, so you can type Taiwanese in Tâi-lô or 漢字 in any app.
• Yating 雅婷逐字稿: Taiwan AI Labs' transcription service, one of the few that can transcribe Taiwanese speech and mixed Taiwanese-Mandarin conversations.
• SuíSiann 媠聲: Taiwanese text-to-speech by Ìthuân 意傳科技, the team behind many of the open Taiwanese voice tools. This site's spoken Taiwanese is powered by their work.

And if you want to learn the language rather than just translate it: Bite-size Taiwanese is a podcast that keeps coming up in learner recommendations, and the r/ohtaigi subreddit is a good place to ask when you get stuck.

If you build a Taiwanese tool, or use one we have missed, tell us through the feedback form and we will add it here.

More: common phrases with audio, Taiwanese speech to text, the data on Taiwanese as a spoken language.