Accepted, Not Yet Planned

Hi Russell,

This is interesting. I'll discuss it with our research team during our next Program Increment planning and will update this post once I have more visiblity regarding technical feasibility and a potential delivery date.

Thank you!

Add Pinyin to Language Weaver

Internally, some people use Google Translate as it provides Pinyin when translating Chinese. We'd like this added to Language Weaver.

Russell Banton
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  • Additional context for this need from a team member:
    English to Chinese language translator does not have Pin Yin (English romanization) , just characters. Same going the other way. Google translate tells you not just the character, but also how to say it. Alternatively, if someone is telling me a word in Chinese I can't input the word if I don't also know the character... So if a customer tells me a word verbally ("qi" with a 3rd tone) I can't translate it because for the current translator I would need to know the exact character (qi has about 100 different characters and meanings). If I just type in Qi to the Chinese side, it simply spits out the English translation as also Qi...not very helpful. Alternatively, If I take an English word, and I want to translate it to Chinese so I can say it to a customer, since your function only gives the characters, if I have never seen that character before I won't know how to say it. Also useless 七 - this Qi means the number 7 气 - This Qi means like air 器 - This Qi means instrument (as in Texas instruments) 矗 - This character is new to me. So It could be Qi, or something else. But I wouldn't know how to say it because your translator doesn't have Pin Yin. SO it is almost useless.

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  • Additional context for this need from a team member:
    English to Chinese language translator does not have Pin Yin (English romanization) , just characters. Same going the other way. Google translate tells you not just the character, but also how to say it. Alternatively, if someone is telling me a word in Chinese I can't input the word if I don't also know the character... So if a customer tells me a word verbally ("qi" with a 3rd tone) I can't translate it because for the current translator I would need to know the exact character (qi has about 100 different characters and meanings). If I just type in Qi to the Chinese side, it simply spits out the English translation as also Qi...not very helpful. Alternatively, If I take an English word, and I want to translate it to Chinese so I can say it to a customer, since your function only gives the characters, if I have never seen that character before I won't know how to say it. Also useless 七 - this Qi means the number 7 气 - This Qi means like air 器 - This Qi means instrument (as in Texas instruments) 矗 - This character is new to me. So It could be Qi, or something else. But I wouldn't know how to say it because your translator doesn't have Pin Yin. SO it is almost useless.

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