Tongan text to speech and transcription
Transleqo gives your team Tongan synthetic voices that read your texts, and transcription that turns Tongan recordings into text.
What you can do in Tongan
- Text to speech
- Turn Tongan scripts, notices and lessons into natural speech, in any synthetic voice of our library.
- Transcription
- Turn Tongan interviews, meetings and broadcasts into written text, ready to correct and subtitle.
- Starpath
- Starpath strives to say Tongan names the way we say them at home, inside your English, French or Spanish texts.
- Review of finished jobs
- Send any Tongan result to our linguists for review before you publish it.
Writing for the voice
The voice reads what you write. Mark every glottal stop (ʻ), every long vowel (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū) and the acute where Tongan writes a shifted stress. 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.
Where it is spoken
Lea Faka-Tonga (Tongan) is the language of the Kingdom of Tonga, official alongside English, with large communities in Aotearoa, Australia and the United States.
Huri Translations serves Tongan clients in Nukuʻalofa, Auckland, Sydney, Salt Lake City and Anaheim.
Transcripts
Transcription writes Tongan with the glottal stop, the macron and the acute, 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.
Names in other languages
Starpath reads Tongan place and personal names inside English, French and Spanish texts, glottal stops and long vowels intact.
Questions
Must we mark glottal stops and long vowels?
For the best result, yes. Our linguists can add them.
Are English words in a Tongan text read in English?
Yes, words and names alike.
Can a linguist check our Tongan before we publish?
Yes. Send it from the finished job. You get a quote first.
Does Tongan cost more?
No. One allowance covers every language.
Translation by people
Human translation: Tongan translation services, by Huri Translations.
Start with your own text
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