Try the following example: 1. Select Chinese to English translation 2. Paste Chinese text into the translate box like this phrase: �Π五��� 3. Under the box hit Read Phonetically, the following will be displayed: Jiànbánǔzhāng 4. Under the box hit Listen and you will hear it spoken by fluent female speaker (computer-generated TTS) 5. The English translation shows: At daggers drawn. I don't like this translation, so I click on it and choose "at loggerheads" 6. Google supports transliteration of most languages including Korean, Japanese, Greek, Russian, Hindi. But I found there are some minor errors with the Georgian. Persian and Urdu are not supported yet. The Arabic transliteration has been temporarily been discontinued, but you can paste your Arabic text over to tashkeel.googlelabs.com to get the phonetic pronunciations added to the text.
On Apr 13, 5:49 pm, samuel95 wrote: > I'm thinking that Google could improve its Chinese translations by > offering pinyin as well (particularly for two/three/four-character > names). At the moment, there is no such function and we have to use > other websites for a English-pinyin converter. It shouldn't be > difficult to add. -- 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.
