Tencent launches Hy Translate app in 12 markets on Hunyuan Hy-MT2
Tencent released the Hy Translate app the day before Mid-Autumn Festival, built on its Hunyuan Hy-MT2 model and launched in 12 markets including the US, Japan and South Korea; it supports 33 languages plus five Chinese minority languages and dialects (Cantonese, Tibetan, Mongolian, Kazakh and Uyghur). A hands-on review says users can switch among academic, business, colloquial, fiction, marketing and news styles and add custom instructions, and that a single roughly 1GB offline model package covers all 33 languages, though simultaneous interpretation and other advanced features are missing and its split-screen conversation UI is less polished than iFlytek's. The article notes Youdao already offers polishing presets via DeepSeek-V4 but rates its flexibility below Hy Translate's conversational customization.
Large models are pushing translation tools from literal lookup toward context-aware phrasing, and one offline package covering every language is a fresh differentiator.