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Heir Maelstrom
Chaotica Drive-In Manager
Join date: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 81
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02-18-2006 19:06
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Keknehv Psaltery
Hacker
Join date: 11 Apr 2005
Posts: 1,185
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02-18-2006 19:27
Ouch. That sounds like a task for an outside server.
Probably something in Perl with the XML-RPC module, set it up to use Google language tools. The main thing in this project would be to have an external server. I'm sure none of us want to actually write a translator in LSL. _____________________
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Max Case
Registered User
Join date: 23 Dec 2004
Posts: 353
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02-18-2006 19:49
hi.
I have something like that. I just got caught up on non western langs, and shelved the project for a bit But it does italian ok. It's definately doable. Mines just not ready for release. And it would be free. Charging for language just seems wrong. _____________________
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Heir Maelstrom
Chaotica Drive-In Manager
Join date: 11 Sep 2004
Posts: 81
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02-18-2006 20:58
Id love to see it
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Kala Bijoux
Material Squirrel
Join date: 16 Nov 2004
Posts: 112
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02-18-2006 21:55
Does Google provide an API into their language tools? Or would the server-side script have to pretend it's a web browser and handle the HTTP communications with the Google page and then extract the results from the response?
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Max Case
Registered User
Join date: 23 Dec 2004
Posts: 353
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02-18-2006 22:59
no api. the script pretends it's web browser (CURL) and scrapes the relevant bits out.
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Alondria LeFay
Registered User
Join date: 2 May 2003
Posts: 725
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02-19-2006 07:54
I do have a working prototype that I made eons ago. It does English, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. I was mucking around with romanized Russian and Japanese also. As far as the eastern languages, unicode is a bit, well, not working as expected in SL. The main reason I never advanced the project is the load it would put on my server vs. profitability. If you have server space to run the backend (it utilizes Perl) I am sure we could work something out....
I was also working on having it recognize the language spoken, however that is a bit haphazzard (since the similarities between different languages, it really is not possible to 100% guess the language from a short message). |
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Licentious Maladay
Registered User
Join date: 28 Mar 2006
Posts: 3
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Babelfish
04-01-2006 09:59
Could I add my voice to this project? It would be a great way to push SL out to the rest of the world. The user would have to set the translation from language and to language. You would also need some shortcuts (like gestures) so that certain idioms could be added to the translation.
Thanks, Licentious [translated from Greek to English by Babelfish 4.0 -- ]www.babelfish.altavista.com] |
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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04-01-2006 14:52
I edited the chat transcript from this thread because they aren't allowed on the SL Forums without clear stated consent from all parties involved. Please see the Community Standards:
Disclosure Residents are entitled to a reasonable level of privacy with regard to their Second Lives. Sharing personal information about a fellow Resident --including gender, religion, age, marital status, race, sexual preference, and real-world location beyond what is provided by the Resident in the First Life page of their Resident profile is a violation of that Resident's privacy. Remotely monitoring conversations, posting conversation logs, or sharing conversation logs without consent are all prohibited in Second Life and on the Second Life Forums. _____________________
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