Spanish to Japanese audio translator

In katakana, by sound: Raonic became ラオニック and Fred フレッド, and a venue came back as シックス・フラッグス・セントルイス, with dots between the words. The human translation wrote ラオニッチ, so one name can have two katakana spellings. Brands such as Skype stayed in Latin letters.

If a name matters, such as a client or a speaker you will quote, check its katakana against how that person writes it in Japanese, or keep the Latin spelling.

The polite ます style, in our tests. From Spanish, every sentence ended in forms such as 敗れました and 移動しています, where the human Japanese ended one in the plain style (…ためだ). From English, “sir” even became お客様, customer. A casual chat may read more formal than it sounded.

Japanese usually leaves a person unnamed once it is clear who is meant. Our test kept a “he” the Spanish implied (彼は少し前…) where the human Japanese had none, and from English “Our doctor said she…” became just 医師は…, with no pronoun and no gender. Both read naturally.

Times take Japanese form, 午前8時46分 for 8:46 a. m., and dates run year, month, day. The text is compact: in our ten test sentences the Japanese used about two-fifths as many characters as the Spanish, with no spaces between words. The result line counts characters.

With ten Spanish sentences from a public test set, each beside a professional Japanese translation. The Japanese was clear and polite; the verb “expulsaron” came back as 追放されました (banished) where the human Japanese says 解雇されました (dismissed).

NoteOwl understands Spanish and Japanese on your Mac, and transcribes meetings and recordings in both with unlimited transcription, each speaker labelled. For a plain Spanish transcript, use Spanish audio to text.