TRANSLATE & LISTEN · PRACTICAL GUIDE

How to translate and listen to a MANGA Plus chapter

Start with the edition you have open. A Japanese series can have English lettering on MANGA Plus. The language printed inside the bubble is the one to select for recognition.

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See Japanese and Korean comics translated into English →

Translate the page in your reading mode

  1. Open a chapter and wait until the lettering is sharp. In the desktop CastReader preview, right-click the page image and choose Translate image with CastReader.
  2. Set the image language to match the lettering and choose your reading language. Choose Read translation when the first bubble appears.
  3. In horizontal mode, watch the publisher’s page counter as you listen. In vertical mode, follow the highlight down the strip.

Open the chapter in the MANGA Plus reader

Try a line of dialogue →

Check what happens at a page turn

In the linked English-lettered chapter, Chinese narration continued from page 3 of 45 to page 4 in horizontal mode. In scrolling mode the reader moved to the next image and highlighted its dialogue as playback resumed.

If the next page still shows a placeholder, give the publisher’s viewer time to draw it. For Japanese text arranged in vertical columns, the Twi4 guide covers a different reading-order problem.

How to translate vertical Japanese manga on Twi4 →

Translate a line of comic dialogue

Load an original practice line or type a bubble from the drawing. Choose your languages, then select Translate to compare the text and listen.

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Translate, then hear both sides.

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Translate sends your input to CastReader’s translation service. This tool does not save your original or translated text. Clear or leave the page to end the session. Reading uses on-device voices; languages depend on your device and browser, and do not use CastReader AI reading minutes.

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How much translation is included?

Signed out: 3,000 source characters per UTC day on this browser. Signed-in Free: 30,000 per UTC day. Pro: 3,000,000 per UTC calendar month. Signed-in usage is shared across devices and supported webpage, file, Kindle and video-caption translation. Letters and punctuation count; whitespace and protected code/formulas do not. Translation-service failures are not charged. The same successfully translated passage and target language are charged once within the same period; different segmentation or a new target language can create new usage. Daily quotas reset at 00:00 UTC, and Pro resets at 00:00 UTC on the first day of the month.

Does translating use my listening or Explain allowance?

Translation characters, cloud listening time and AI Explain requests are separate allowances. Translation itself does not start audio or consume an Explain. On-device reading remains free without a time allowance; CastReader AI reading requires sign-in and follows your listening plan. Reaching a translation limit preserves existing translations and the original; you can still listen when your selected voice has allowance. Pro users who reach their translation limit should wait for reset, not buy Pro again.

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