Phonetic Characters in Google Translation API

Question

I am using the Google Translation API, here is an example request to getting 'Hello' from English to Simplified Chinese:

Google Translation API - 'Hello' From English to Chinese

And as you can see this is pretty much all the data it returns:

你好

Which is not very helpful to a user who might want to be able to speak it, so does Google Translation API return any pinyin or phonetic typing so it might return that as:

Ni Hao

Thanks!

You might want to remove/change the link such that it does not include your API key. I know the example doesn't work as well for us if you do, but it probably isn't a good idea to leave it there. — laaph, Oct 22 '12 at 05:58

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

3

This isn't possible with the current API. See:

Get Chinese Romanization from Google Translate API

Apparently it is still an open issue that Google has not implemented into the API.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

Community

1
1

answered Oct 22 '12 at 02:31

jingtao

513
2
7

Thank you and that is very sad to find out! – MCKapur Oct 22 '12 at 02:31
It's been 4 years and google is not making this feature still? – lyhong Dec 14 '16 at 09:21
Hell, it's been 8 years now and this is still on the first page of results from Google when looking for a solution to this. – Michael Jan 17 '20 at 02:33

Phonetic Characters in Google Translation API

1 Answers1