Telugu Typing

A capital T is ట. The box turns off your phone's automatic capitals, but a capital typed by hand still counts: type telugu. Capital N, L, M and H at the start of a word are read as small letters, because ణ, ళ, ం, ః never start a Telugu word.

It reads your letters loosely, as people type Telugu in messages: t, th and T can be త, థ, ట, a vowel can be short or long, m or n can be a sunna. Of the Telugu words that fit, it shows the most common ones first, preferring those closest to what you typed. It has learnt from ap7am's own Telugu news: the common words, the names and places in the news, and how Telugu is spelt, so it can write words it has never seen whole, the way they join in speech: vachcindevarante is వచ్చిందెవరంటే, ekkadanundi is ఎక్కడి నుండి. English words typed in English come out as Telugu writes them (school is స్కూల్), names too (delhi is ఢిల్లీ), and abbreviations as they are said (kcr is కేసీఆర్). In a test on sentences typed by real people, which it had never seen, it chose the right word 79 times in 100, and the right word was among the first three suggestions 86 times in 100.

It works the same way, with one difference: Google's keyboard sends what you type to Google to guess it, while this page guesses on your phone. For a word it does not know, the letters as typed are always among the suggestions, and Exact letters spells anything: rOju is రోజు.

Yes, in Chrome (on Android and computers) and Safari: tap the microphone in the box and speak in Telugu; what you say is written in Telugu letters where the cursor is, and you can mix it with typed words. Tap the microphone again to stop. Speech is turned into text by your browser's own service, not by ap7am: Chrome sends it to Google and Safari to Apple. ap7am does not receive or keep your voice, and the microphone is used only while it is red. Firefox has no voice typing, so there is no microphone there.

No. This page works in the browser of any phone or computer, with the keyboard you already have: type in English letters and copy the Telugu. There is nothing to install and no sign-up.

Yes. It is ordinary Telugu text (Unicode), the same as from a Telugu keyboard: it pastes into any app or document and shows on any phone.

Your text is not sent anywhere: the Telugu is worked out on your phone. Your text and the suggestions you picked are kept only in this browser, so they are still there if you reload; the × in the box clears the text. One thing is sent, and only if you leave Share my corrections ticked: when you tap a suggestion to correct a word, the English letters and the Telugu word you chose go to ap7am, nothing else and nothing about you. Editors check them, and the ones many readers make improve the suggestions for everyone. If you use voice typing, your speech goes to your browser's speech service (Google or Apple) to be written down, not to ap7am.