Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam lyrics in English letters on stage

Can I read Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam lyrics in English letters while I sing?

Yes. In Live Mode each song has a toggle between its original script and English letters. The lyrics fill a dark screen in large type, you tap or pinch to change the size, and auto-scroll moves them. The lyrics on stage page describes the screen in full.

The toggle is per song. You are not choosing a language for the whole night. It works the same for a troupe in Chennai and a singer in Kuala Lumpur, Toronto or London.

How does that help on a night with four languages?

Take an orchestra, light-music or ganamela troupe whose programme runs Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi in the same evening. A singer may be able to sing in all of them and read only some of the scripts.

• A singer who reads Tamil leaves the Tamil songs in Tamil script and switches the Malayalam and Telugu songs to English letters.
• The next singer does the opposite on their own phone. The choice is made on each person's screen.
• The Hindi songs, written in Devanagari, switch the same way.

Each song carries its own lyrics in its own script, so the setlist does not need sorting by language.

When the troupe leader moves to the next song, each signed-in member's screen moves with it. That is band sync. It syncs which song you are on and the start and pause of auto-scroll, not audio and not how far each person has scrolled, and it needs internet on each device. Members join the leader's setlist free.

Which scripts are converted by rule, and which need AI?

Fixed rules cover 14 scripts. For regional-language singers the ones that matter are:

• Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam
• Devanagari, used for Hindi and Marathi
• Bengali, Gujarati, Odia and Gurmukhi, which is used for Punjabi
• Sinhala

The rest of the rule-based list is Korean Hangul, Japanese kana, Cyrillic and Greek; the page for K-pop cover singers covers those. Rule-based conversion is instant and uses no AI, so a song gets the same spelling each time you open it.

Arabic script, which includes Urdu, goes through AI in the app, and so do Chinese, Thai, Hebrew and Japanese lines that contain kanji. That route can fail, so test those songs before the gig. The transliteration page has the table of scripts and methods.

Will the respelling match the Tanglish or Manglish I already know?

Not always. The respelling is plain English letters, line for line with the original. The rules are fixed, so the same word is spelled the same way every time it appears. Once you have learned how the app writes a sound, it writes it that way in the next song too.

It will look different from a lyric sheet someone typed by hand. Tanglish, which is Tamil in English letters, and Manglish, which is Malayalam in English letters, have no fixed spelling; people write them as they hear them. The app's version is consistent, and it may not match the spelling you grew up with. Read a new song through once at home before you trust it on stage.

To see how a verse comes out without signing in, paste it into the free lyrics in English letters tool. That page also prints the engine's character tables for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi, letter by letter.

Where do the lyrics come from?

From you, mostly. Paste the lyrics into the song in their original script. StageFloww can also fetch lyrics where they are available, but not every song has them. The conversion works on text in the native script. Lyrics you paste already typed in English letters are shown as they are.

Live Mode, song search and English-letter lyrics are part of the Free plan. Limits and Pro are on the pricing page. Church music teams that sing in these languages have their own page: StageFloww for worship teams.