That's great. I know that Arabic transliteration is more difficult than for other languages, since the Arabic writing system does not represent short vowels, so it is not as simple as transliterating Russian, Greek or Korean.
Your transliteration system was producing the letters that were written. For example, the Arabic word "kutub" (books) is written in Arabic "ktb", and your transliteration was producing that result "ktb". It works fine for me that way. Moreover, when written in isolation, it is not possible to know if "ktb" is representing "kutub" (books) or "kataba" (he wrote) . When there is a context it is possible to know, but then you would need to rely on statistical methods and grammar to find out which is the correct transliteration. In any case, I am grateful you are working to improve it. I am looking forward to seeing the results. As you can imagine, many of us use Google Translate as a tool for language learning, and transliteration is a great feature. Thanks, Jose On Dec 15, 2:09 am, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > Hi Jose, > > Our Arabic transliteration was unfortunately frequently incorrect. > We're fixing it and will bring it back as soon as we can. > > Best, > Josh Estelle > Senior Software Engineer > Google Translate > > On Dec 14, 3:54 pm, Jose.pm wrote: > > > I noticed that Arabic transliteration feature has disappeared. Do you > > know why? Can you fix that? > > > Thank you! -- 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.
