Samoan text to speech and transcription
Transleqo gives your team Samoan synthetic voices that read your texts, and transcription that turns Samoan recordings into text.
What you can do in Samoan
- Text to speech
- Turn Samoan scripts, notices and lessons into natural speech, in any synthetic voice of our library.
- Transcription
- Turn Samoan interviews, meetings and broadcasts into written text, ready to correct and subtitle.
- Starpath
- Starpath strives to say Samoan names the way we say them at home, inside your English, French or Spanish texts.
- Review of finished jobs
- Send any Samoan result to our linguists for review before you publish it.
Where it is spoken
Gagana Sāmoa (Samoan) is an official language of Sāmoa and American Sāmoa, alongside English, with large communities in Aotearoa, Australia and the United States.
Huri Translations serves Samoan clients in Apia, Pago Pago, Auckland, Sydney and Los Angeles.
Writing for the voice
The voice reads what you write. Mark every glottal stop (ʻ) and every long vowel (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). An unmarked word is read unmarked.
Our linguists mark texts that arrive without them, through pronunciation marking.
English words and names are read in English.
Names in other languages
Starpath reads Samoan place and personal names inside English, French and Spanish texts, glottal stops and long vowels intact.
Transcripts
Transcription writes Samoan with the glottal stop and the macron, in one house spelling. Name English as a second language when a recording moves between the two. Export as text, timed text, subtitles or a spreadsheet.
Questions
Must we mark glottal stops and long vowels?
For the best result, yes. Our linguists can add them.
Can one text mix Samoan and English?
Yes. English words are read in English.
Can we transcribe a meeting held in Samoan and English?
Yes. Name English as the second language of the recording.
Does Samoan cost more?
No. One allowance covers every language.
Translation by people
Human translation: Samoan translation services, by Huri Translations.
Start with your own text
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