Translate your Telegram chats, both ways
Connect Telegram to VivaVoice and talk to anyone there in your own language. You read their messages in yours; they get yours in theirs — with the tone, gender and formality right. They don’t install anything.
You read and write in English. Lucía stays on Telegram.
How to translate Telegram messages
Three steps, about a minute.
- 1
Get VivaVoice
Install it on your iPhone or Android phone and pick the language you read and write.
- 2
Connect Telegram
In Settings → Telegram, sign in with your phone number and the code Telegram sends you. Your Telegram chats appear in your VivaVoice inbox.
- 3
Translate a chat
Open a chat, turn on “Translate this chat” and choose the language they read. Review each translation before it’s sent, or skip the preview.
More than a Telegram translator
Your Telegram chats sit alongside your VivaVoice ones, with the same nuance-aware translation.
Both directions
Their messages arrive in your language; what you write is translated before it’s sent from your Telegram account. The original is one tap away.
Tone, gender and formality
Set them per person — tú or usted, du or Sie, verb endings that agree with you — so you sound like yourself, not a phrasebook.
Voice messages
Voice messages arrive written out in your language. Hear either side read aloud, or record your own.
Group chats
A group gets one shared language, so everyone sees the same messages. Start new Telegram groups right from VivaVoice.
Photos and videos
Captions on photos and videos are translated along with the rest of the chat.
Translated notifications
On iOS and Android, a new Telegram message shows up in your language before you even open the app.
Other ways to translate Telegram
Telegram’s own translator, iMe, Nicegram and VivaVoice all help. Here’s how they differ.
Telegram’s own translation
Tap Translate under a message to read it in your language. With Telegram Premium, whole chats are translated as messages arrive.
iMe and Nicegram
Full Telegram apps that replace the official one, with a translator among many other tools — AI assistants, folders, multiple accounts and more.
VivaVoice
A messenger built around translated conversation. Your Telegram chats sit next to your VivaVoice ones, translated both ways.
What VivaVoice adds
- Language, gender and formality set for each person, so replies sound right to them
- Every translation can be reviewed before it’s sent
- Voice messages written out in your language and read aloud in a natural voice
- Notifications already translated when they arrive
- Group chats share one language between everyone using VivaVoice
Your account stays yours
- Your login stays on your phone — The Telegram session never leaves your device. VivaVoice never holds your Telegram account.
- Translation only where you turn it on — Every chat starts untranslated. A chat’s messages go to VivaVoice’s translation service only after you turn translation on for it.
- No copies of your messages — VivaVoice translates your Telegram messages without storing them on its servers.
Translate Telegram into 49 languages
Each one can also be read aloud in a natural voice.
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Cantonese
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
Telegram translation questions
How do I translate Telegram messages?
Install VivaVoice on iOS or Android, connect your Telegram account in Settings → Telegram, then open a chat and turn on “Translate this chat”. Incoming messages appear in your language, and what you write is translated into theirs before it’s sent.
Do my Telegram contacts need to install anything?
No. They keep using Telegram as usual and see ordinary messages from your account, already in their language.
Can VivaVoice translate Telegram voice messages?
Yes. Voice messages are transcribed and translated into your language, and you can have either side read aloud.
Does it work in Telegram groups?
Yes. A group chat gets one shared language that everyone using VivaVoice in it sees, and you can create new Telegram groups from VivaVoice.
How is this different from Telegram’s built-in translation?
Telegram translates messages you receive — one at a time, or whole chats with Telegram Premium. VivaVoice translates both directions: what you write goes out in their language, with the formality and gender set for that person, and voice messages are transcribed and translated too.
Is VivaVoice an alternative to iMe or Nicegram?
For translated conversations, yes. iMe and Nicegram are full Telegram apps with a translator among many other tools. VivaVoice focuses on the conversation itself: two-way translation that keeps tone, gender and formality, voice messages read aloud, translated notifications, and your VivaVoice chats in the same inbox.
Which languages can I translate Telegram chats into?
49 languages, from Arabic and Chinese to Spanish and Ukrainian. The full list is on this page.
Is my Telegram account safe?
Your Telegram login stays on your phone — VivaVoice never holds your account, and it doesn’t store your Telegram messages on its servers. Messages are sent for translation only in chats where you turn translation on.
Is Telegram translation free?
VivaVoice is free to download, and everything, Telegram translation included, is free during early access.
What doesn’t VivaVoice show from Telegram?
Secret chats and channels. Secret chats are tied to the device that started them, so no other app can open them.
Is VivaVoice made by Telegram?
No. VivaVoice is an independent app by EE3 Labs that connects to your account through Telegram’s API. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Telegram.
Talk to anyone on Telegram
Get VivaVoice, connect Telegram from Settings, and turn on translation in any chat.
Telegram is a trademark of Telegram FZ-LLC; iMe and Nicegram are trademarks of their owners. VivaVoice is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
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