# AI Translate

Filo's **AI Translation** rethinks the workflow: with **machine‑translation‑level speed**, it adds **context awareness** and **preference memory/self‑tuning**, so your translations feel **smoother, more natural, and more trustworthy**.

### Capabilities at a glance (What's new)

- •**Context‑aware:** Uses the email subject and thread context for clearer references and consistent meaning.
- •**Terminology & name handling:** Preserves proper nouns and chooses fitting translations for domain terms.
- •**Preference memory:** Remembers your **target language** after first use (always changeable in Settings).
- •**One‑tap "Always":** Option to **auto‑translate** any non‑target‑language email.
- •**MT‑class speed:** Optimized lightweight models and data paths for **near‑instant response**.
- •**Original ↔ Translation:** Switch freely between **Show original** and **Translate**.

### First‑time setup

1. In a foreign‑language email, click **Translate** (inside "..." next to reply icon).
2. Choose your **target language** (defaults to your app interface language).
3. (Optional) Enable **Always translate non‑target‑language emails**.

You can change this anytime in the translate setting box.

### Speed & quality

- •**As fast as MT:** We use **lightweight, efficient AI models** with tuned data paths to minimize wait time.
- •**More context‑savvy:** The model considers key thread context to avoid pronoun mistakes and bad term choices.

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## Draft TranslateDesktop

On the desktop app, you can translate selected text directly in the compose editor. Filo automatically detects the source language and displays the translation result, making it easy to draft multilingual emails.

### How to use

1. **Select** the text you want to translate in the compose editor.
2. **Right‑click** to open the context menu and click **"Translate"**.
3. A translation popover appears near the selection, showing the original text and the translation result.
4. Click **"Copy Translation"** to copy the result and paste it into your email.

### Language detection

- •**New email:** Source language defaults to your app interface language.
- •**Reply:** Source language is auto‑detected from the email content.
- •The translate option only appears when the **source and target languages differ**.

### Supported languages

Supports translation between 14 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Thai, Ukrainian, and Hindi.

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