For travelers heading to India
Hindi, Tamil, Bengali in your pocket — without roaming.
Cove Travel runs Google Gemma on your phone. Pack the model before takeoff, then translate Delhi auto-rickshaw negotiations, dosa menus in Chennai, and Goa beach-shack signs without a single rupee of roaming.
Three real India moments Cove handles
Auto-rickshaw negotiation in Delhi
Drivers quote a tourist price first. Cove voice translation lets you negotiate in clear Hindi — your English to his Hindi, his Hindi back to your English. The fare drops accordingly.
Dosa menus in Chennai
Tamil script menus list 30+ dosa types. Cove photo translation reads Tamil and explains masala / paper / mysore / rava varieties — including which contain onion (relevant for Jain travelers).
Goa beach shacks, monsoon, no signal
Beach shacks turn off in monsoon, signal disappears in coastal villages. Cove keeps working — you ask the family running the homestay if breakfast includes eggs.
Common Hindi phrases Cove handles well
Hindi uses Devanagari script. Cove handles it correctly in both directions. (For southern India, Tamil and Telugu work via photo translation; spoken support is more limited.)
| नमस्ते | Hello / Namaste |
|---|---|
| धन्यवाद | Thank you |
| कितना है? | How much? |
| बाथरूम कहाँ है? | Where is the bathroom? |
| मसाला नहीं | No spice, please |
| मुझे मदद चाहिए | I need help |
Why Cove for India
Roaming + Jio confusion
Foreign SIMs get capped or throttled in India; Indian SIMs need Aadhaar verification. Cove sidesteps the whole problem — model on your phone before you fly, translate freely the entire trip.
Multi-script country
India has 22 official languages and many scripts. Cove handles Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi), Tamil, Bengali in photo mode — broader script coverage than most cloud apps' offline modes.
Cash + bargaining culture
India is heavy on cash and negotiation, often in markets where pulling out a cloud-translator app stalls the moment. Cove voice runs offline and stays in the rhythm of the back-and-forth.
Pack Cove before you fly
Free tier covers 5 translations a day. India trips are intense — 14 days of haggling will exceed the free cap quickly. The one-time Pro is $3.99.