Microsoft Translator: better than Google Translator?

[JackGats]

Google Translator has a major flaw: when used to translate speech to text, it often doesn't start translating after you launch the microphone. It stalls and registers nothing, Arrrgh! If used to practice listening on the headlines in Thai, I'd say it will leave you high and dry in one spoken sentence out of three.

 

Here's a speech-to-text app that seems to do a much better job:

 

 

[Gaccha]

I think you'll find this very effective for your needs: