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Tone control, context awareness, pronunciation guides, and cultural explanations, all in one place.
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Tone Control
Choose from Friendly, Polite, Business, or Formal. One click adjusts keigo level, word choice, and sentence endings automatically.
- Distinct tone levels from casual to ultra-formal
- Automatic keigo adjustment for each tone
- Sentence endings and expressions adapted to context
Same message: four tones, handled.
Context-Aware Translation
Tell Veltone who you're writing to and how. It adjusts the softening phrases, the respectful wording, and the sign off to match the person and the channel.
- Recipient types: boss, client, colleague, friend, and more
- Channel-aware: email, chat, phone, in-person
- Appropriate opening and closing phrases for each combination
To
Channel
Why
Tone anatomy, explained on hover
The tone-carrying phrases are underlined in your translation. Hover any of them and a plain-English note tells you exactly what that phrase is doing.
- Color coded by what each phrase is doing
- Each note is specific to your sentence, not a textbook rule
- Learn as you send. The Japanese becomes yours
お忙しいところ恐れ入りますが、ご確認いただけますでしょうか。
Cushion added
お忙しいところ acknowledges their time before the ask.
Ask softened
Phrased as a humble question, not a demand.
Personalize how Veltone writes
Save the colleagues, clients and friends you write to often, then pick one when you translate. Veltone writes for that relationship instead of a generic recipient, and your names and terms come out the way you spell them.
- A person carries their relationship, how you usually talk, and anything you add
- Dictionary renderings adapt to grammar, not find-and-replace
- Applied across translation, reading Japanese, and email
PEOPLE
DICTIONARY
Pronunciation Guide
Full romaji with every translation, plus audio on Plus and Pro. Read it aloud before you say it, even if you can't read kanji yet.
- Complete romaji for every translation
- Listen before using the translation in conversation.
昨日はお時間をいただき、ありがとうございました。
Kinō wa ojikan o itadaki, arigatō gozaimashita.
Hear it in Japanese
Reverse Translation
Before you hit send, read your Japanese back in English. Veltone translates its own output in reverse, so you can see the message the way your reader will receive it.
- Your Japanese carried back into plain English
- Catch a line that landed harder or softer than you meant
- Send knowing what you actually said
Your Japanese
Reverse translation
Conversation Memory
Save a translation as a conversation and everything you write into it afterwards carries what you have already said. You stop re-entering the same background, and the Japanese stays consistent from one message to the next.
- The conversation is made after the fact, not set up in advance
- Who it is with and what it is about are stated once
- Saved conversations stay until you delete them, whatever your history limit
Conversation
Kubo-san · Q2 renewal
Client, email, negotiating on price
Context carried, not retyped
Fine-tune the translation
The first result doesn't have to be the final one. Make the result more casual or formal in one click, or tell AI Refine exactly what you want to change. Shorter, warmer, more direct, less apologetic. Just describe it in your own words.
- Make it more casual or formal with one click
- Use AI Refine for more specific changes
- Only the current result changes. Your tone, recipient, and context stay the same
Tell Veltone what you'd like to change
Adjusts this result only
And more
Translation History
Every translation is kept automatically. Search it, filter it, and reopen anything you sent. Save the ones that matter as conversations and they stay until you delete them.
Email Drafting
Draft complete Japanese emails with proper greetings, structure, and sign-offs, ready to send.
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try the tones
One request, four tones.
Pick a tone and watch the same message shift to fit who you are writing to.
Example message
I want to request a day off for this Friday.
Now, pick a tone ↓
Tone control rewrites the whole sentence, not just a word or two. Each tone sets the keigo level, the verb endings, and how much cushioning goes in.
Japanese output
恐れ入りますが、今週の金曜日にお休みをいただけますでしょうか。
Osoreirimasu ga, konshū no kin'yōbi ni oyasumi o itadakemasu deshō ka.
- Reads as
- Respectful and indirect, how a request reaches a manager
- Reverse translation
- I'm sorry to trouble you, but might I take this Friday off?
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