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BBTran logoBBTran is a free online multi-translation application for BlackBerry® devices. It translates words, phrases and does a dictionary lookup in 64 languages with more than 2000 translation directions. BBTran consumes various online services such as Google Translate, Systran, FreeTranslation, Reference.com.

Pinyin transcription added for Simplified Chinese

Friday, March 27 2009

Last time I got a lot of requests for pinyin (Romanized) translations of Chinese words. People really need it since there is no use from hieroglyphs for foreigners.

Well today I’ve added this feature for Dictionary mode of Google translation provider. However that works only for simplified Chinese and not a traditional. It also works only in one direction now: Chinese(Simplified)->English. For some reason Google does not provide pinyin for English->Chinese.

A bit later I’ll try to add pinyin for text translation mode as well as add a popular Chinese dictionary CC-CEDICT. And of course both direction will be covered. Today changes are what I could do with few changes on a server side.

Pro edition cusomers can also enjoy pinyin in translation examples!

This is a server side update so no need to update BBTran itself. However if you had no chance to update it to 1.6.3 yet. Please do it now: http://ota.bbtran.com.