Thanks for the feedback! We're working on improving the spoken translations and hopefully will have some high quality speech for you soon.
For a lot of the less-good quality speech, we're using the open source project: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ One way to help us improve is to see if there is any way you can contribute to that project. Cheers, Josh On Aug 2, 12:28 pm, homem estrangeria wrote: > I'm happy that the ability to hear spoken translations to languages > other than English has been added to Google Translate, however, I'm > disappointed that it sounds horrible! > > This is quite unfair and sloppy, I think. If I translate some > language to English, then click the speaker button to hear it spoken > aloud, I hear a pretty good version of the English. But if I > translate to some other language, Portuguese, for example, the spoken > translation is horrible. It sounds flat, monotonous, robotic, and > it's much too fast! > > Google, please, if you're going to give us the ability to hear spoken > versions of translations, don't give us a half-complete tool for it. > Give us one that sounds good and is intelligible. The one you give us > now is almost no better than not having the feature at all! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to google-translate-gene...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-translate-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
