How It Works

1. Type, speak or upload

Type your text, tap the microphone and speak, or upload a photo of printed text — whichever is quickest for you.

2. Choose your languages

Pick the language you are writing in from the “From” box, then tick every language you want it translated into. You can translate into up to six languages at once.

3. See it translate live

There is no Translate button to press. The translation appears within a second of you stopping typing, and keeps up as you edit.

4. Fine-tune the result

Choose a tone such as Formal or Casual to change how the translation sounds. On a computer, Advanced Options also offers Auto Detect, which works out which language you typed in.

5. Copy, listen or share

Every result has buttons to copy the text, hear it read aloud, or share it to WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram.

Typing

The fastest and most accurate option. The translation updates by itself within a second of you stopping typing, so you can edit a sentence and watch the result change. When you write in English, misspelled words are underlined — fix them, because a typo in the original almost always becomes a wrong word in the translation.

Speaking

The microphone uses your browser’s own speech recognition rather than sending audio to us, so there is nothing to install. It works best in Google Chrome, and some browsers do not support voice input at all — the tool will tell you if yours does not. Set the “From” language before you start, so the browser knows which language to listen for.

Uploading a photo

Upload a picture of printed text and it is read inside your browser, then translated. The photo itself never leaves your device. The photo translation guide explains which scripts read accurately and how to take a good photo.

What the tone setting changes

Most Indian languages show respect in the verb itself — you use different verb forms with a friend than with an elder. English has no equivalent, so the translator has to choose. The tone setting lets you decide: Formal leans towards respectful forms and formal vocabulary, Casual towards how people actually talk, and Concise keeps it short. Friendly is the default and suits most everyday messages.

Why there is a 480-character limit

This is about quality, not a paid upgrade — there is no paid version that removes it. Machine translation gets less accurate on long sentences with many clauses, because languages that put the verb last need the whole sentence rebuilt, not translated word by word. Keeping each translation short keeps the results trustworthy. For a long passage, translate a few sentences at a time.

What powers the translations

Translations come from an AI language model — currently Groq — which handles the wording and the tone together in one step. MyMemory, a free community translation service, is used only as a backup if that provider is unavailable. Rewrite & Improve uses the same AI model.

Quality depends on how much text a language has online: Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Urdu are very dependable, while Konkani, Maithili, Dogri, Sindhi and Kashmiri handle everyday sentences well but are weaker with specialised words. The Privacy Policy explains what is stored — not your text — and the Disclaimer explains what the tool should and should not be used for.