Thanks Josh, It's a royal pain to have to retype the phonetics, especially since the word is instantly changed into the Urdu script (with some letters not displayable), so that typing errors must be corrected before a space is entered after the word. Stilll, it's better than nothing.
Please note, however, that I had to tell Google Translate that it was Urdu I was inputting. Before I did that, it autodetected the phonetics as Punjabi, an responded with "Punjabi is not yet supported", or words to that effect. But when I copied and pasted the same text into the translation window, Google Translate detected it as Albanian. On Dec 22, 1:05 pm, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > Hi otropogo, > > Unfortunately we can only translate Urdu text that is written in the > correct script, not when it has been phoneticized into a Latin > character set. For example, "شید یہ منہاج کی بیٹی ہے " should > translate, where as "shied yeh minhaj ki beti hay" will not. > > We do however have a feature where you can type phonetically, that is > type those Latin characters, and have it converted into the Urdu > script on the fly, which we'll then translate. But this only works > when you type each word, not when you paste in the text. > > As for that Facebook page, I don't see any Urdu text there. It looks > English to me, which is why we don't translate it from English to > English. > > Best, > Josh > > On Dec 22, 8:50 am, otropogo wrote:> when I cut and paste this text : > > > shied yeh minhaj ki beti hay > > > from this URL: > > >http://www.facebook.com/syedumair143#!/syedumair143?sk=wall > > > into the translate field at translate.google.com, it reproduces > > exactly the same text, and calls it "translating from English to > > English", and when I try by calling google page translate, it refuses > > with the comment that translation from English to English is not > > allowed. > > > why doesn't it work, and is there a solution? > > > On Dec 13, 12:31 pm, Josh > > > Google Employee) wrote: > > > We have Urdu onhttp://translate.google.com/ > > > It is however an Alpha language, meaning it is not quite up to our > > > quality standards, but we've made this early version partially > > > available. > > > > Best, > > > Josh Estelle > > > Senior Software Engineer > > > Google Translate > > > > On Dec 11, 12:08 am, MALIK wrote:> hello admin please insert in Urdu > > > Google translate -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
