Hi Andreu, Thanks for the feedback. Interesting idea. One suggestion I can make is you can try translating just leaving off the accents. Usually our system can do a pretty good job without the correct accents.
Best, Josh Estelle Senior Software Engineer Google Translate On Oct 7, 12:36 am, agb wrote: > Hello, > > this is a suggestion which maybe means to add a new functionality to > Google Translator, but I think it would be worthy to the user. I am > Spanish and Catalan. I use Catalan language for commercial documents > sometimes for catalan customers. While for many catalan people of mi > generation it is very easy and widespread to talk Catalan, it is not > so easy to write a text with no mistakes. The main source of mistakes > is due to the three types of accents to be used in this language. Most > of cases we do not remember if an accent is one way or other (see > French language as a similar case). Therefore, I think that it would > be very useful the function "correction" to test if the text is OK, > regarding the accents, once it has been translated from Spanish, for > example, or directly form the input in Catalan. > > I am sure it would be very very useful for most people talking Catalan > language (about 6 million people approx.). Additionally, it would be > of great application in Schools (most of schools in Catalonia use > Catalan as first language for most of the topics or to anybody writing > in this language. The same funtion could be used in Spanish or in > French. > > I hope this will give to you a new idea to improve this excellent > application. > > Best Regards > > Andreu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
