Website to translate chars into pinyin

[silverwofl0]

Is there a website where I can paste or link a site with characters and translate them all into pinyin? I've tried Rikia where I have to highlight one by one but I need something that does the whole page or a whole text. I have lyrics to a chinese song that I want to sing to but it is in all characters and I want to read it in pinyin. Thanks in advance.

[roddy]

Adsotrans.com will do this, just make sure you choose the correct options. Will only work on simplified characters.

Roddy

PS I think a search would have found this for you.

[trevelyan]

Try annotating using the Pintone option. It prints pinyin and tone marks above the characters in a way similar to childrens books. A nice way of learning characters since you look at them alongside the pinyin. All of the controls are in the advanced page here:.

http://www.adsotrans.com/advanced.html

[silverwofl0]

Thanks a lot. Adsotate works wonders although I somehow can't get the tones to print out on my printer, just the pinyin and characters. On a related question, is there possibly something like this for Cantonese pinyin/romanization?

[roddy]

When using the Pintone feature the tone marks are shown by images - there may be an option somewhere to print / not print images on your computer, I'm not sure.

Roddy

[wai ming]

As for Cantonese romanisation, check my reply to your thread at www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum!

[atitarev]

Apart from a few online converters there are offline programs that can do this job very well.

These 2 can convert to pinyin with tone marks or tone numbers. NJStar tone marks are not easy to copy into other programs but no problem with Wenlin.

NJStar Chinese WP

www.njstar.com

Wenlin

www.wenlin.com

If you google you can find macro code for MS Word to convert pinyin with tone numbers with nice tone marks.

HanConv converts not only to Pinyin but to Jyutping and Yale romanization for Cantonese.

www.icycloud.tk

[gumbico]

actually, here's a nice page that will do some great translating. well, doesn't really translate, just provides pop-up boxes for the chinese chars. but those boxes contain a hell of a lot of info, pinyin for trad & simp, cantonese pronounce, and japanese too. check it out!

http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx

Just enter in the Chinese page you wanna view, select the language converstion to Chinese --> English. And woala, mouse over the chinese chars for the pop-ups.