Translating a chapter and reading the result
Press Translate and Crossleaf Standard takes it from there — one chapter or a batch — and you read the result in Translation, Original, or side-by-side view. Choosing the AI yourself is optional.
On the book page, tick the chapters you want and press Translate. Crossleaf Standard does the rest, and your membership covers it, so there is nothing to price and nothing to approve. Translation runs in the background: you can close the tab and come back, and each chapter shows its progress piece by piece.
If you would rather name the model yourself, open Choose the AI first and pick a premium one; then you see a quote in leaves for the batch before anything is charged.
Pieces
A chapter is translated in pieces of about ten thousand characters of the original. Pieces keep a model careful: asked for a whole long chapter in one go, models tend to shorten or skip passages, and a piece that goes wrong can be retried on its own without paying for the chapter again. In the reader, Pieces lists them with their character counts. Open a piece to see its original text, which you can correct and Save source (useful when a capture came in with stray characters), an optional extra instruction for a retry, and what came back, which you can edit and Save output. Retry re-translates just that piece; editing the original or the output is free. If pieces fail, the ones that finished stay. Retry works one piece at a time: press it on each failed piece, and the chapter is complete once every piece is done. On Standard, a piece that comes back short is already retried for you on something stronger before you see it. A retry you press yourself uses whatever is in the reader's picker at that moment, so check it first if you want it to match the rest of the chapter; a retry from the book page's Pieces link uses whatever made that version. See Which AI translates my book?.
In the reader:
- Switch between Translation and Original, or turn on side by side to see both.
- Paged mode gives you full-screen pages with left and right arrows, like an e-reader.
- Use Edit to hand-correct the translation, including whole-word find and replace.
Every translation is kept as a version. Re-translating or polishing adds a version rather than replacing one, and you can pin whichever version you want to read and export.
Reading on a phone or a tablet? See Use Crossleaf like an app.