Does anyone know a program that could convert long texts into Pinyin...?

[ChineseCulturalist]

I want to convert like 10 pages of text at one sitting from simplified Chinese into Pinyin. To be more precise, I want to convert Chinese subtitles (txt docs) into pinyin, so the program needs to maintain the original layout. I already know a lot of online conversion sites, but they all seem to convert only a very limited set of characters at a time and also mess up the layout in a way that makes it unrecognizable for any video player. I just thought watching Western movies with Pinyin subs would be a great way of continuing my studies of the Chinese language.

谢谢 in advance!

[c_redman]

What about Google Translate? Click on the A with the 2 dots in the lower corner of the edit window, and the pinyin will appear below the text area.

[navaburo]

Interesting task. This could be something that you could accomplish with a simple program and a character-pinyin dictionary.

If you have programming experience, I'd recommend trying to write a script in Python.

Or, if you want me to try, you can send a sample of the formatted subtitle text file and I can see what I can do with it using a Python script.

Cheers,

Chris

[Kenny同志]

You might as well try this site. Copy and paste the text into the box, select "Chinese>>Pinyin All" in the drop-down menu, and click "Convert". Hope it works.

Good luck!

[ChineseCulturalist]

Thanks Kenny2006woo, you got my point. This program is very nice because it does not insert line breaks like google does and works for me except it it only converts 2000 characters at a time, so it does require a bit of copy pasting to convert a whole movie's subs. I wonder if there is a program that can convert .txt docs as such without the need to copy paste anything at all. For example Google translate can translate webpages and notepad files containing unlimited number of text, but alas it does not pinyinize it unless you copy only super short segments of it in the translation window. That messes up a simple layout like below and takes away the line breaks:

1

00:00:20,543 --> 00:00:23,011

吃啊，别愣着

2

00:00:23,879 --> 00:00:25,710

从早到现在没吃东西

3

00:00:26,115 --> 00:00:28,675

你是不是嫌钱少了

Thanks

[cababunga]

Then try this http://mandarinspot.com/annotate. Choose "Show Pronunciation".

[ChineseCulturalist]

Thanks, mandarinspot.com/annote was the perfect solution, thank you so much. I'm sure this will work for me, I've already learned 4 languages using a bit similar techniques!

[renzhe]

Adsotrans: http://popupchinese.com/tool/adso

There is an offline version you can use for arbitrarily long texts, but I'm not 100% if it's free or not, or what the conditions are. The author is a poster here on the forum, but I haven't seen him recently.

[MaLaTang]

try the QQ translator......

http://qq.bur.st/qqtranslator.php

[Qleila]

This site is good to try

http://www.chinesetools.eu/tools/chinese-to-pinyin/

[wezel]

Hey these are great. I had been using google translate but mandarinspot in particular will be useful for me. Many thx

[Taibei]

directions: How to Create Hanyu Pinyin Subtitles