

Thus, we will show the pronunciation as แม่น.

(Maikaikhu indicates the shortening of vowel) But this is not the normal way of writing in Thai. To show this difference, the first one should be written as แม็่น. For example, แม่น is pronounced with a short vowel while แมน is pronounced with a long vowel. However, to write the pronunciation in the form that is most familiar to all Thai users, we have to ignore the differences between short and long vowels in some syllables. So, the transcription is converted into Thai basic written form. This feature is already hidden in the romanization program because the romanization is done on the basis of transcription. This will show pronunciation of each syllable. In Version 1.02 : We have added an option "Show Pronunciation". Please be patient when starting the program. The program may take more than 15-30 seconds to start up, depending on the speed of the machine. When the program recognizes it as one word, it will be romanized as "phutthaphasit". To solve this problem, users can add new word in the file "user.dict". For example, "พุทธภาษิต" could be romanized as "phut phasit" if the program does not know that it is one word.

In some cases, the output could be wrong because the program doesn't know that word. The output of romanization depends on the recognition of word boundaries. For words that do not follow the rules of romanization, users can add those words in the file "roman.except" Deselect this option from the menu bar, if you want to transcribe normal texts. With this option, the first character of each word is capitalized. The default option of the program is set for transcribing proper names. However, transcriptions of some special characters such as ฯ ๆ ฯลฯ, abbreviations, and numbers are not yet implemented in this version. Version 1.01 : This program transcribes Thai words in according to the Royal Institute's guideline for the "transliteration of Thai characters into Latin characters" (1999). Version 1.01 - Jan 2004: first released of Thai romanization program Version 1.02 - Feb 2004: show pronunciation in Thai correct some mis-romanization Version 1.03 - Mar 2004: hyphenation and word separation are improved. Version 1.04 - Apr 2004: add an option to mark input as one word
#Thai romanized translation windows
Version 1.05 - May 2004: users can specify Thai font romanize all texts in a file unicode version for non-Thai Windows system is released Version 1.06 - June 2004: errors caused from symbols ฯ ๆ are fixed Version 1.07 - July 2004: errors caused from symbols % # are fixed Version 1.08 - Nov 2004: fixing bugs in smoothing module Version 1.09 - July 2005: add more training data Version 1.10 - Sep 2005: correct misspelling in training dictionary add option to copy both Thai & Romanized texts
#Thai romanized translation update
Version 1.20 - June 2006: fix bugs when Thai texts are mixed with English, update dictionary Version 1.21 - July 2006: fix bugs from the version 1.20 Version 1.22 - July 2006: can minimize to the task bar Version 1.23 - Oct 2006: set ๆ to be the same as the previous word Version 1.24 - Apr 2007: fix some mis-romanized words Version 1.25 - May 2007: combine normal and unicode versions can romanize a text file and output both Thai texts and romanized words. Version 1.26 - Mar 2009: fix some bugs on repeating ๆ, updated dictionary Version 1.3 - June 2009: add option for all capitalized
