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Your text
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ENGLISH -> TELUGU · Local tool

English to Telugu

Translate English text or a text, subtitle or CSV file into Telugu, 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.

An English form explanation for a Telugu-speaking relative
Paste the paragraph and read the Telugu out together. It is done on this device, so the form's details are not sent to a translation service.
A training script that has to be delivered in Telugu
Drop the .txt. Every line comes back in Telugu script in the same order with the same blank lines between sections, ready for a speaker to correct.
English captions for a Telugu release of a video
Drop the .vtt or .srt. The caption text is translated and the timings are copied through exactly, so nothing has to be re-synced afterwards.

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 Telugu 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. Telugu out, in Telugu 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.
How well does it translate into Telugu?
It has not been read by a Telugu speaker here, so no number is claimed. What was measured is English to Hindi on the same on-device translator: 16 clean sentences in 20, with 2 that changed meaning. Assume Telugu is in the same region until somebody checks, and read the result before using it.
Does the whole document go through at once?
Line by line, on this device. Each line is handed to Chrome's translator on its own, which is why a file keeps its line breaks and paragraph breaks exactly. The cost is that a sentence wrapped across two lines is translated as two pieces, so unwrap long paragraphs first if that matters.
What does a Telugu .srt look like afterwards?
Identical in shape. The cue numbers and timing lines are copied through and only the spoken lines are Telugu. The saved file is the original name with -te before the extension, and it plays with the original timing.
Why is there a download the first time?
Chrome fetches its English to Telugu pack from Google once and keeps it. The page shows the progress and says so, because it is the one moment anything crosses the network. Your text does not; after the pack is present the page works with the network off.

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