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Japanese to Romaji + English alternative to Google Translate? (lemmy.world)
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So, I’m trying to degoogle from at least the services that have good competitors and I thought Translate -> DeepL would be a no-brainer with how much it’s recommended, but apparently when translating Japanese it doesn’t give you the Romaji like Translate does, and considering it’s one of my most frequent use cases I can’t really use it as a replacement.

Just in case if I didn’t explain it correctly, I’m looking for an alternative that does something like this, but DeepL doesn’t give you the little “Uriba” text under your Japanese input. Does any other app do?

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[–] 1 point 3 hours ago

I think Microsoft's Bing Translate matches the features the OP is looking for. Like Google, it's part of “Big Tech,” but at least there's a competitor to the oligopoly.

Aside from Chinese-based services, other well-known translation services that support Japanese include DeepL, TexTra, and Plamo; however, I couldn't find any of them that offer the feature to display Romanized spellings alongside the Japanese text.

https://www.bing.com/translator/

Additionally, an Android application called "Offline Translator," released by DavidVentura, is capable of performing this kind of Romanization while offline.

https://github.com/DavidVentura/offline-translator

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