Starpath: Pacific names, said the way we say them
An English voice reading a Pacific place name usually guesses, and the guess is wrong. Starpath strives to find each Pacific name in your English, French or Spanish text and say it the way those of us who carry it say it.
One sentence, three readings
Bula vinakasaid in Fijian, due to ongoing adverse weather conditions linked to El Niñosaid in Spanish, same voice, your flight from Nukuʻalofasaid in Tongan via Nadisaid in Fijian will be two hours late.
Transleqo looks for the names so you do not have to. AI can miss one now and then, and you can mark it yourself. If you cannot, our linguists mark the pronunciation for you.
We live in the interlingua
Us Pacific Islanders hardly always speak one language at a time. We move between our own language and English, French or Spanish in the same sentence, at home, at work and on air. The evening news in Auckland is read in English and names Samoan villages. A radio host in Papeete passes from French to Tahitian and back. A clinic in Guam writes its notices in English, with CHamorro names on every line. That everyday space between languages is the interlingua, and it is where Pacific people live.
Starpath speaks the interlingua
- Each name in its own language
- Starpath looks for the Pacific names inside an English, French or Spanish sentence, says each one in its own language, then carries on in the language of the sentence.
- One voice from start to finish
- The same synthetic voice says the whole sentence, so it keeps one speaker and one rhythm, the way a bilingual speaker does.
- Your community's way of saying it
- The readings your organization chooses come first, so names are said the way your listeners say them.
- Listening too
- Transcription follows the interlingua as well: when a recording moves between a Pacific language and another language, each phrase is written in its own language.
How it works
- Our rulings
- Our linguists decide how each name is said, name by name, and Starpath applies their decisions.
- Your word first
- Your own choices for your organization always come first, and you can keep the English reading of any name.
- In the API
- Pass the names you want read in a Pacific language, or a spelling to say them as, with each request.
Where it works
Names in Carolinian, CHamorro, Chuukese, Fijian, Māori, Rapa Nui, Rarotongan, Samoan, Tahitian and Tongan are read inside texts in Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Spanish.
Start with your own text
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