I tried it today, and the Chinese voice feature suddenly seems to be much better. E.g., copy-paste some Chinese into the translate text area, selected "Chinese to Chinese/simplified" and then click "listen." The spoken words flow more naturally and the text I tried was comprehensible to one Chinese speaker I asked, which was not the case before.
Was there a recent upgrade? On Nov 28, 7:28 pm, Xi Cheng (Google employee) wrote: > Intro: text-to-speech(TT) > link:http://translate.google.com/support/ > Read and listen to your translation > > If you're trying to translate to a non-Roman script, you'll see a Read > phonetically link next to the translation. Clicking this link will > spell out the translation in Roman(Latin) characters. This feature is > currently available for Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, > Georgian, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Maltese, > Russian, Serbian, Thai and Ukrainian. > > For many languages, you may see also a speaker button near the > translated text. Click this icon to hear a machine-generated spoken > version of your translation. This feature is currently available for > English, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Italian and Spanish. > > An experimental text-to-speech system (TTS) is available for several > other languages, powered by the eSpeak open-source speech synthesizer: > Afrikaans, Albanian, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, > Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, > Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, > Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh. You > may notice significant differences in speech quality between the > experimental languages and the other available languages. > > On Nov 23, 2:58 pm, Swan Cheng wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > Can you improve the Chinese audio translation? The sound is not very > > clear. It is broken up so you can barely make out what the Mandarin > > pronunciation is for certain words. -- 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.
