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Request: Translation Output Language field to handle Traditional Chinese #193

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Francoyy opened this issue Jan 7, 2025 · 0 comments
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Francoyy commented Jan 7, 2025

Chinese is a special language, because it has two ways of displaying characters: Simplified and Traditional.
China is using Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese is being used in Hong Kong and Taiwan in particular.

More info in the language codes here https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/languages
The code for Simplified Chinese is "zh-CN"
The code for Traditional Chinese is "zh-TW"

The dropdown menu in the Local Vocal filters only shows "Chinese" which maps into Simplified Chinese.
It would be great to have two options instead: "Chinese (Simplified)" and "Chinese (Traditional)" similar to what we can see on Google Translate and most of the other translation engines.

With that setting missing, it is impossible to get Traditional Chinese translations, even though the different translation providers support it. My only alternative at this point would be to write a script to convert Simplified into Traditional in the text file output, but this is not as simple as that, because it is not a 1-1 mapping between simplified and traditional characters. It depends on context, so a translation engine would do it much better.
Thanks!

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