# Speech Recognition from Thunkables 'say' command

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-from-thunkables-say-command/3187499>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** help\
**Created:** [September 9, 2024, 4:32am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-from-thunkables-say-command/3187499 "2024-09-09T04:32:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![leist.nik7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@leist.nik7](https://community.thunkable.com/u/leist.nik7)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 4:32am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-from-thunkables-say-command/3187499/1 "2024-09-09T04:32:40Z")

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I’m attempting to create a japanese translator, and all of that works well. The main challenge is that I do not want japanese symbols as the translated item but instead would like the english version of the translated text. For example Hello = Konichiwa as opposed to the japanese characters the speech blocks use. I tried using the speech recognition blocks to write into a text block what the translator was saying but was returned with a ‘null’.

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**Author:** ![matt\_conroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/matt_conroy/32/150843_2.png) [@matt\_conroy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/matt_conroy)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-from-thunkables-say-command/3187499/2 "2024-09-17T20:42:47Z")

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Hi leist.nik7, welcome to Thunkable! 🎉

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To translate from the Japanese symbols to English text, you may first need to use an API to translate the characters into English. Or maybe use ChatGPT to do this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/speech-recognition-from-thunkables-say-command/3187499/3 "2024-12-16T20:43:08Z")

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