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

English to Tamil

Translate English text or a text, subtitle or CSV file into Tamil, 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 product description that has to appear in Tamil
Paste the English and copy the Tamil script out. Check the names in it: a translator turns a brand into the Tamil word it resembles rather than leaving it alone.
Course material to be read by Tamil-medium students
Drop the .txt or .md. Paragraphs and headings keep their shape, and the Tamil comes back in the same file layout for someone to review before it is handed out.
English captions for a Tamil-speaking audience
Drop the .vtt. The spoken lines become Tamil and the cue timings stay exact, so the captions land on the same frames in the same player.

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 Tamil 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. Tamil out, in Tamil 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 the Tamil output been checked?
Not sentence by sentence. The measured pair on this site is English to Hindi, where 16 of 20 sentences were clean and 2 changed meaning. Tamil comes from the same on-device model family and Chrome reported it downloadable on the same day, but nobody here has read 20 Tamil sentences against their English yet, so treat the output as a draft.
Does the Tamil come out as Tamil script or in English letters?
Tamil script. The output is real Tamil text you can paste into a document, a message or a form, not a Roman spelling of it. Names and brand names are the thing to check, because a translator turns a name into the Tamil word it sounds like rather than leaving it alone.
Can I translate an English subtitle file into Tamil?
Yes, an .srt or .vtt. The spoken lines are translated and everything that makes it a subtitle file, the numbering, the timings, the header, is left exactly as it was. The result plays in the same player at the same moments.
Why does Tamil need Chrome?
Because the translator is Chrome's own, built into version 138 and later and run on your device. There is no Tamil model on this site and no server behind it; a browser without Chrome's translator gets a message saying so rather than a worse translation from somewhere else.

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