The Google translate site will accept transliterated Hindi (just make sure the "accept phonetic typing" box is checked). It converts to Devanagari on the fly, then translates. Is that what you were looking for? Of course, at each stage, there is the chance for potential noise to be added to the signal, but there you have it.
-Dan. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:03 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [Mt-list] Re: hi-Latn to en translator Doug, No idea on your specific question re online MT for non-standard Latin transcriptions of Hindi. However, it sounds like a 2- or 3-step process: first into the script ( via perhaps a preliminary step to clean up the transcription), then through the translator. >From past experience running simple Chinese texts through a variety of online >hanyu <-> pinyin and MT applications, and from ongoing observations of >non-standard transcriptions of African languages (mostly interference from >European language orthographic conventions or simple expediency of ASCII), it >occurs that there could be a great benefit to having arrays of online >utilities alongside MT for transliteration between scripts and correction of >orthographies / transcriptions. Presently, as your question re Hindi and my somewhat dated (and admittedly rather limited) experience with Chinese indicate, doing anything online with transliterations or irregular transcriptions of text (esp. in tandem with MT) can present challenges. Don ------Original Message------ From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: hi-Latn to en translator Sent: May 18, 2011 00:56 Anyone know of a Web site that will accept input in Latin-script Hindi, probably not an official orthography, and translate it into English? Google Translate seems to accept Hindi only in Devanagari. Thanks, --Doug Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T _______________________________________________ Ietf-languages mailing list [email protected] http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list
