English ↔ Portuguese translator

What you can do with English ↔ Portuguese

All four ways work with this pair. The buttons open the app with English ↔ Portuguese already selected.

• Face-to-face conversation

  • Phone
  • no setup

  Your phone lies on the table between you, with the top half turned towards the other person. Whoever wants to talk taps “I’ll speak” on their half first. Dolmi says the translation out loud and shows it in large text.

  Start a conversation

  More about conversations →

• Understand a call

  • Phone
  • PC or Mac
  • no setup

  Put your phone next to your laptop: it listens to the call and shows subtitles. On a computer it also works without a phone: share the tab or screen with audio and read along in a floating window.

  Start subtitles

  More about subtitles →

• Speak in a call

  • PC or Mac
  • set up once

  You speak English and the others hear German, in an AI voice. For this, you set up a virtual cable on your computer once. Dolmi guides you step by step and checks it with a test tone.

  Set up the voice

  More about the voice →

• Translate a file

  • Phone
  • PC or Mac

  Paste a text or upload an audio or video file. You get the translation as an MP3, as text and as SRT subtitles.

  Translate a file

  More about files →

Typical situations

A team in Brazil. Your developers sit in São Paulo, your support team in Recife, and not everyone is comfortable in English. In Zoom, Teams or Google Meet, you speak English and they hear Portuguese; you read what they reply as subtitles. That’s Dolmi’s live translator for video calls. If your Portuguese is good enough to answer yourself, the subtitles alone may be all you need.

Clients and suppliers. The coffee exporter in Minas Gerais, the client in Porto Alegre, the freelancer in Florianópolis you’re briefing for the first time: calls where you want every detail of the deal, the deadline and the price understood on both sides.

Family. Your partner’s parents in Belo Horizonte speak little English. At Christmas dinner, the phone lies on the table between you; on the video call with your mother-in-law, you read her Portuguese as English subtitles and, if you like, she hears you in Portuguese.

Travelling or living in Brazil. The flat viewing in Rio, the handover with the landlord, the pharmacy counter, the reception at the doctor’s. The phone lies on the table and both of you read and hear the translation. That’s the face-to-face conversation, with no app to install.

Colleagues who are still learning English. A new colleague from Brazil on the building site in Dublin, the au pair who arrived last week, the carer who looks after your grandmother: the first weeks go more smoothly when the important things are understood straight away.

Voice messages and recordings. The WhatsApp voice message from your partner’s aunt, the recorded interview, the video a colleague in Brazil sent: upload the file and get the translation as an MP3, as text and as SRT subtitles. It’s the simplest way to translate Portuguese audio into English, and it works the other way round too.

Pricing

The first minute of conversation is free. After that, you choose a pack or a subscription. Dolmi charges in Swiss francs, and all language pairs cost the same.

Good to know

• Dolmi translates into Brazilian Portuguese and speaks it with a Brazilian voice. Someone used to Portuguese from Portugal will hear the Brazilian pronunciation.
• In a face-to-face conversation, whoever wants to talk taps their half of the screen first: you tap “I’ll speak”, the other person “Vou falar”. In a call, you choose your language and the language of the others, and the way you choose sets the direction: subtitles translate into your language, the voice into the language of the others.
• For English ↔ Portuguese, Google Meet has a built-in alternative: Meet’s speech translation translates between English and Portuguese, in a voice similar to your own. It’s included in Google AI Pro and Ultra and in several Google Workspace subscriptions, and it only works in Meet. If you have one of these subscriptions and only call through Meet, you don’t need Dolmi for that. Dolmi helps in Zoom, Teams and other apps, at the table and with files. There’s more in the comparison.
• An AI does the translating. For contracts, court documents or official papers, you need a certified translation by a person.
• For medical consultations with a diagnosis, or appointments with legal consequences, a professional interpreter is still the safer choice.

Other language pairs

Besides English ↔ Portuguese (Brazil), Dolmi translates German with English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil) and French, and English with Spanish. There’s more about German and English on the German English translator page. In the app, you choose the pair before you start.