Thanks Glossika Languages!

Your advice is right on.

Hope that helps samuel.

Best,
Josh

On Apr 13, 9:51 pm, Glossika Languages wrote:
> Try the following example:
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> 1. Select Chinese to English translation
> 2. Paste Chinese text into the translate box like this phrase: 劍拔弩張
> 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:
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> > 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.

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