add automatic phonetic transliteration in the LingvaNex translator
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LingvaNex is an awesome translator but is missing some great features which are standard for Google and Bing translators.
When the origin language uses a different alphabet, for example, Cyrillic, the LingvaNex translator only recognizes the Cyrillic text. So if the computer does not have a Cyrillic keyboard it becomes difficult to even type the text that needs to be translated.
Of course there are workarounds like visual keyboards or online keyboards or online transliteration apps like this one but using them adds an extra step — (1) transliterate the text to Cyrillic and copy it to the clipboard in the transliterator app, and (2) paste the transliterated Cyrillic text into the LingvaNex translator. This two-step process becomes burdensome and clunky.
Google and Bing make this a one step process with a built-in phonetic transliterator of text typed in Latin alphabet and automatically recognize the transliterated equivalent and provide it as a suggestion. This feature is missing from LingvaNex and makes it clunky to use even though the translation itself is excellent.
I don't need to provide details of how the transliteration logic should work. Just emulate the way Google and Bing do it. Theirs work very well indeed.
The transliteration feature can be made optional preference in the settings.
Thank you so much.