Terms of Use

Tetun Translator is provided free of charge, without any account or payment, and “as is” without warranties of any kind. We make no guarantee that the service will be available, uninterrupted, or error-free, and we may change or discontinue any part of it at any time.

Translations are grounded in dictionaries, specialist glossaries, and bilingual examples, then checked against orthography and grammar rules. Even so, machine translation can be wrong — particularly with names, specialised terminology, and ambiguous text. You are responsible for verifying any output before you rely on it. For legal, medical, financial, or government text, have a qualified human translator review the result before it is signed, filed, or published. We are not liable for any loss arising from use of the translations.

You agree not to:

• use the service to produce content that is unlawful, abusive, deceptive, or that impersonates another person;
• use the audio (text-to-speech) feature to imitate a real, identifiable person or to create misleading recordings;
• scrape, bulk-download, or resell the dictionary, corpus, or translations as your own product or service;
• attempt to overload, disrupt, or circumvent the rate limits or abuse protections on the site or API.

We may restrict or block access that breaches these terms or threatens the availability of the service for others.

The HTTP API has a free anonymous tier with per-IP rate limits, and a partner tier with higher limits issued case-by-case (free for community, nonprofit, and Timor-Leste government use). When using the API you must:

• stay within the published rate limits and back off on 429 responses;
• keep any partner API key confidential and not share it across unrelated products;
• not present the API as your own translation service, and attribute Tetun Translator where translations are shown to end users.

The text-to-speech endpoint (/api/speak) is metered more tightly than text endpoints and is intended for playback within your own interface, not for bulk audio generation. We may revise limits to keep the service sustainable.

The translator is built on the published work of others — the tetun.org dictionary (Catharina Williams-van Klinken, DIT), DIT specialist glossaries, the INL Matadalan Ortográfiku (2003), the Peace Corps Tetun Language Course, and Timor-Leste government text. Those sources remain the property of their respective authors and institutions; using this translator does not grant you any rights in the underlying dictionaries or corpora. See About for full source credits.

If you believe content on the site infringes your copyright or should not be published, contact us (below) and we will review and, where appropriate, remove it.

We may update these terms from time to time; the “last updated” date above will reflect any change. Questions, API-key requests, and takedown or correction requests can be sent to [email protected].