Spanish to Korean audio translator

The formal polite 습니다 style, in every line of our test, where the human Korean often used the plain 다 style of written reports. Korean marks politeness in each sentence ending; from English, “sir” became 선생님. A relaxed chat may come out stiffer than it sounded.

Mostly in Hangul, by sound: Raonic as 라오닉, Piquet Jr. as 피케 주니어. Some came with the Latin spelling in brackets, 프레드(Fred) and 식스 플래그스(Six Flags St. Louis), and Skype stayed in Latin letters. The human translation also bracketed spellings: 라오니치(Raonic).

Two spellings of one name, 라오닉 and 라오니치, show why it pays to check: if a person or company already has a Korean spelling, use theirs.

Korean puts the verb last, so the Spanish sentence is rebuilt from the end. “El autobús iba al Six Flags St. Louis, Misuri, para que la banda tocara…” became a Korean sentence that closes on 향하고 있었습니다 (was heading), with the purpose placed before it.

That is one reason the transcript is translated in batches of lines rather than word by word: the translation needs the end of a thought to write its beginning.

Times read 오전 8시 46분, the part of the day first, then the hour and minute. Korean leaves spaces between words, unlike Chinese and Japanese, and in our ten test sentences used about half as many characters as the Spanish.

With ten Spanish sentences from a public test set, each beside a professional Korean translation. The Korean was clear and consistently polite; the main differences were speech level and the Hangul spelling of names.

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