1. A method for selectively synthesizing speech based on a text string, the method comprising: parsing through the text string and selecting a first subset of text for which to synthesize speech, and a second subset of text for which not to synthesize speech; and with respect to only the first subset of text, determining a first set of phonemes in a native language of the text string and converting the first set of phonemes into a second set of phonemes in a target language, the second set of phonemes dictating how to render speech based on the first subset of text.