Thanks Jose. Since you were finding the vowel-less version useful, we may be able to consider bringing it back, however I think we're more likely to replace it with something better.
Cheers,. Josh On Dec 15, 9:13 am, Jose.pm wrote: > 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.
