Timeline for Tool which can convert web pages from Hanzi to either Pinyin or Zhuyin Fuhao
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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| Feb 13, 2014 at 22:55 | comment | added | Xephon | @hippietrail Huh... So you just want that "small" piece being translated in place... I was thinking you might want the whole page to show up in sound symbols... Now that is unreadable... Lol... My bad. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 21:34 | comment | added | hippietrail |
Well I'm sorry. I don't think I've made myself understandable to you. Most of the answers and comments so far suggest tools which do just what I need with the character to pinyin. Only the part where it's formatted in the original HTML layout is missing. And I know that part isn't so tough as I've written code that does it myself in the past. I can only imagine that you think I'm asking for something much grander than what I actually am looking for. \-:
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| Feb 13, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | Niklas Berglund | @Xephon There's thousands of services doing it for inputted text, there's no reason why it wouldn't work for websites. Sure there might be flaws, but that's only natural for a free online translation tool. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 16:09 | comment | added | Xephon | @hippietrail I understand what you want. Trust me, I understand how that works in both software and linguistic perspective. What I'm trying to say is that the Pinyin or Zhuyin may change due to context and/or phrases around a given translation unit/point. Punctuations may change the sound as well to reflect different implications especially if the text is a "recording" of conversation. This is merely too much for the software to process in a big chunk. If you give a few sentences, it might be okay. Not so if you give a whole page. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 16:04 | comment | added | hippietrail | For many languages, including languages with ambiguous writing systems and including Chinese, you can click on the Ä icon and you will get a transliteration of everything that was translated. Click on the little speaker icon and it will even speak the translation aloud. All I want is the transliterated text all inline instead of below the text box. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 15:50 | comment | added | Xephon | @hippietrail Google Translate can't translate whole page to sound symbols. Grammar and lexical analysis issue has been addressed in NL processing but not sound analysis. I'm not saying translating the page is impossible but figuring out each single character's correct pronunciation is quite more complex. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | hippietrail | Well if you proved the tool I want can't exist you have also proved that Google Translate doesn't exist. I'm not expecting something 100% perfect. These difficulties have been specifically addressed in the field of Natural Language processing. | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 14:38 | history | answered | Xephon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |