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What to translate
Your text
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ENGLISH -> KANNADA · Local tool

English to Kannada

Translate English text or a text, subtitle or CSV file into Kannada, on your own device.

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  1. 01 / Your device

    the file stays here

  2. 02 / Browser memory

    the work runs locally

  3. 03 / Back to you

    saved on this device

When you would use this

Situations, not settings.

A shop sign or menu that needs a Kannada version
Paste the English lines and copy the Kannada script out, one line per item. Short, plain phrases translate best; check anything with a pun in it.
Documentation a Kannada-reading team member asked for
Drop the .md. Fenced code, inline code and links are left untouched, so the file is still correct markdown with Kannada prose between the code.
A CSV of English labels for a Kannada interface
Drop the file. Label cells are translated and key or ID cells with no letters are not, so the file imports back into the same tool unchanged in shape.

How it works / no cloud

A conversion engine, not an upload form.

filetity hands the text to the translator built into Chrome, which runs a translation model on your device rather than on a server. Plain text goes a paragraph at a time, because a model given half a phrase answers about half a phrase: a wrapped line that read "Most / of the staff work from home" came back as "Over-employees work from home" until the paragraph was joined. A subtitle goes a cue at a time, for the same reason, which means a two row cue comes back as one row and the player wraps it. Italics and colour inside a cue are kept when the translation brings them back intact and dropped when it does not, because a broken tag is worse than none. A CSV goes a cell at a time, where the pieces really are separate. The first time English to Kannada is used, Chrome downloads that language pack from Google, once, and keeps it; the page shows the download and says so, because it is the one moment anything crosses the network. Your text never does: measured with the browser's own network log, translation makes zero requests. The limit is the model, not the plumbing. In a 20 sentence English to Hindi test read by a person, 16 were clean and 2 changed meaning: "with the wifi off" lost the "off", and "out of milk" came out as milk that had run out of something. Read the result before you rely on it.

  • Offline ready
  • Installable app
  • No file limit queue

Straight answers

No accordion. Nothing hidden.

Is it free?
Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
Does it need an account?
No. There is no account system.
Is my file processed on my device?
Yes. Chrome's built-in translator runs on this device and the page makes no request of its own. The one download is Chrome fetching its language pack from Google, once per language, and your text is not part of it.
What formats are supported?
English text, typed or pasted, or a .txt, .md, .srt, .vtt or .csv file in. Kannada out, in Kannada script, in the same format.
What are the limits?
Chrome 138 or newer only; Firefox and Safari have no on-device translator and are refused with a message. Quality is good enough to understand a document and not to publish one unchecked: 16 of 20 test sentences were clean, 2 changed meaning. Plain text is translated a paragraph at a time, so a hard wrapped paragraph comes back as one line rather than in its original wrap.
Does it work on mobile?
Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
Does it work offline?
Yes, once Chrome has the language pack. The first use of a pair downloads it; after that the page translates with no network connection.
Has anyone checked the Kannada?
Not here, not yet. The only pair read by a person on this site is English to Hindi, and it was 16 of 20 clean. Kannada was confirmed downloadable in Chrome on the same day and nothing more. A Kannada reader should look at the output before it is used for anything that matters.
Can I translate a markdown file into Kannada without breaking it?
Yes. Fenced code blocks, inline code, link addresses and bare URLs are never sent to the translator, and a heading or list marker stays where it was with the text after it translated. The result is still valid markdown with Kannada prose in it.
Does the page work without a network connection?
After the first use, yes. Chrome downloads its English to Kannada pack from Google once and keeps it, and from then on this page translates with the network switched off. The first use needs a connection for that one download and for nothing else.
Is the Kannada output copyable text?
Yes, plain Kannada script in a text box, with a Copy button and a Save as .txt button. It is not an image and not a transliteration, so it pastes into a form, a document or a message as ordinary text.

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