Spanish to Chinese audio translator

Not always. In our test, people’s names from the Spanish stayed in Latin letters, “Raonic”, “Piquet Jr.”, “Fred”, where the human Chinese translation wrote them in characters (拉奥尼奇, 弗雷德). Places with an established Chinese name came out in characters: 布里斯班公开赛, 密苏里州.

Latin spelling keeps a name searchable exactly as the person spells it. If your document needs every name in characters, replace each one once with find and replace.

Simplified characters with Chinese punctuation (，。、), no spaces between Chinese words, and a space wherever characters meet Latin letters or digits: “输给了 Raonic”, “其中 15 块岩石”. Times put the part of the day first: “就在上午 8:46”.

Relative dates are made explicit: “en julio pasado” became “去年 7 月”, last year’s July.

Because one character often does the work of a whole Spanish word. In our ten test sentences, the Chinese used about a third as many characters as the Spanish. The result line counts the Chinese in characters rather than words.

Chinese marks politeness with word choice more than grammar. From English, our test used the everyday 你 rather than the polite 您, so where a Spanish speaker says usted to a client or an elder, check whether 您 suits your readers better.

Gender came through in our English test: “Our doctor said she…” became “我们的医生说她…”. Spanish often marks the gender itself (la doctora), which gives the Chinese more to go on.

With ten Spanish sentences from a public test set, each beside a professional Chinese translation. The Chinese was clear; the main difference was names left in Latin letters, and one verb, “expulsaron”, came back as 被驱逐出赛 where the human Chinese says dismissed (被解雇).

NoteOwl understands Spanish and Chinese on your Mac and transcribes calls and recordings in both with unlimited transcription, labelling each speaker. For the Spanish words alone, use Spanish audio to text.