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Holiday

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"OT: Japanese -> romanji transliteration?" , posted Thu 10 Jun 03:07

Anyone knows of a site which can transliterate kana/kanji -> romanji?
Even better if it can transliterate huge blocks of text.
Failing that, any recommended software that can do this?

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Undead Fred

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"Re(1):OT: Japanese -> romanji transliteration" , posted Fri 11 Jun 01:50:

quote:
Anyone knows of a site which can transliterate kana/kanji -> romanji?
Even better if it can transliterate huge blocks of text.
Failing that, any recommended software that can do this?

Blargfish will do it, but it's not the best translation. You'll get the Japanese equivalent of Engrish most of the time, but if you're in a bind, then I'd just say use that.

PRO TIP: I'd strongly recommend translating your text back and forth from English to Japanese to see how it ended up wording things... It's best to type in the English message, hit English to Japanese translation, then take the new kana text back to English (I'm pretty sure you can just switch the languages without copy/pasting and it will work) and see how it was translated. Some things will be misunderstood (like it will think "draw" is meant as "to pull from, like drawing water" instead of "making marks with a tool to make a picture"), so you'll have to re-word it and try again. Hope this gets you somewhere, at least.

EDIT: D'oh. I'm tired... I didn't realize what you were asking. You want something to change Japanese symbols to Japanese words in English letters, not just a translator. Bleh. Sorry I couldn't help, but at least the link's there if you ever needed it.

Well, if you don't have any other options, you can use Blargfish to translate it to English, then use another translator to change the English words into romanji text? Not much of an option, but it's all I know of. Maybe someone else can help.

[this message was edited by Undead Fred on Fri 11 Jun 01:55]

Fuchikoma

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"Re(2):OT: Japanese -> romanji transliteration" , posted Fri 11 Jun 03:18

There's not that many Hiragana and Katakana... really you can learn those in about a month if you want, I'm sure if you google you can find some site with a chart. Kanji is a whole different story though... kanji can be read in different ways depending on what context it's in... which really makes it next to impossible for any software to accurately translate it. You might have some luck with a japanese word processor like JWPce using the dictionary function... but you'd have to do it word by word and guess at the meaning.

Toxico

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"Re(3):OT: Japanese -> romanji transliteration" , posted Fri 11 Jun 11:05

quote:
There's not that many Hiragana and Katakana... really you can learn those in about a month if you want, I'm sure if you google you can find some site with a chart. Kanji is a whole different story though... kanji can be read in different ways depending on what context it's in... which really makes it next to impossible for any software to accurately translate it. You might have some luck with a japanese word processor like JWPce using the dictionary function... but you'd have to do it word by word and guess at the meaning.

Katakana is easy, I'm still working on Katakana ¬_¬.... For the record I have read in many sites that there is virtually an infinite amount of kanjis... Is this true??

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GekigangerV

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"Re(4):OT: Japanese -> romanji transliteration" , posted Fri 11 Jun 12:18:

Nihongoresources Link Here Click the romaji box under extras.

[this message was edited by GekigangerV on Fri 11 Jun 12:27]

Holiday

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"Re(1):OT: Japanese -> romanji transliteration" , posted Fri 11 Jun 14:49

Thanks for the help, everyone.
I found a better place though :)
http://www.animelab.com/anime.manga/translate

I know Japanese, but I need to transliterate a whole big bunch japanese manuals for a project, and I just wanted somewhere which could do a rough transliteration to speed things up.

exodus

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"Re(2):OT: Japanese -> romanji transliteration" , posted Fri 11 Jun 16:14

ah, you found something. I was trying to look for this thing I was shown in school...it pretty much did just that. But my damn school deleted my email account when I graduated.

anyway, I just resent an email to you holiday, hope you get it :D
(btw, it's a hotmail address...sound right? I grabbed it from the other board)