Speechy Professional is ALSO available in the Marketplace, see towards the end why you may wish to upgrade. Do note that Speechy/Speechy Pro have the EXACT same Features and ZERO Limitations as some have been going around trying to claim limitations exist (Note: Currently not valid as originally once planned or "announced" but was never released with limits, so we feel any word about limitations should be put to rest as officially it never existed and hope to clarify that as originally we did so to gain more exposure, which we successful obtained and apologize for anyone who bought in to it).
You may also hear our App is just "like" everyone else's or doesn't have "this" but this is a Translator meant to have 1-true idiot proof task, to allow you to speak and translate as accurate as possible (even if it may take a few moments). So go on, take the FREE download, doesn't cost anything but your time and read below while you're download. After using our App, you determine if our App is truly no different than the others. Hope this clarifies anyones concerns and confusion.
What is Speechy...?
A translator you can really talk to, literally. Say what you need and Speechy will translate and speak out loud what you said in English for others to know what you really want to say in a foreign language. Great tool even if you're just trying to learn the language to prepare for your trip.
So when you're at the Airport and no one speaks English and you don't know the native tongue, you can say "How do I get to Terminal B" and know someone who speaks one of the 15 pre-bundled languages can help you. Why hire a Translator when the best Translator is at your fingertips and you're in control!
How is this DIFFERENT?
1). Mic/Recording Input
Simple! Our voice input function that grabs the audio you speak either close or whichever distance you may be and takes the input from the phone Mic. When using your "Mic", we've designed our own Equalizer that is built-in that actually has various functions and decreases/increases pitch, balance, volume and other aspects to obtaining the audio you speak in which it also breaks it up in to a bunch of "chunks" and sending it via Internet (Wifi Connection or 3G Required) in multiple parts to then have it run through a Speech Server where it is analyzed in each segment of your Mono input (Never Stereo).
2). Cloud Speech Server
When your multiple chunks are each processed one-by-one for better understanding, they are first run under another synthesizer to turn everything flat (Bass, Treble, Pitch/Frequency, etc...) and another technique that let's us better understand what you say, even if you have an accent to the best we can and as each few moments are separated, it allows us to promptly guess what each word is being said and if quickly it fails a built-in/server-run spelling database (Query's originally from Bing!) and if it is still valid it will continue on to check to see if it can find the next best thing using the 2nd Dictionary aka "Phrases" which uses a form of AutoComplete for quicker search which is why you may notice sometimes a little bit of lag time/timely response as it is doing it's very best to try and be 100% accurate.
e.g. "This is a test" may normally be recognized by other Speech Services as "This is a pest". In this case the word "pest" could be valid as it is a US-English Dictionary word but we have one last pass-through that has most common American English phrases that currently only has around 2,000+ but as people report more what they've tried to say and hasn't worked we can add it to the 2nd dictionary for accuracy.
3). Translated Voice Download
Once everything is assumed to be as accurate as possible it will then pass the string through the Bing Translator API and in this case grab the audio from the Bing Translator service and pass it through the App as a "Stream" to download it temporarily (removes every translation or application closing/back button pressed) but only to prepare for output in Mono or Stereo (where available).
4). Translation Output
Once the file is available it immediately streams back out at a specific pitch, frequency, mono playback but made a synthesizer that barely modifies the output a little more to make it louder and easier to understand/sound better on almost any device but more important if Stereo headset/playback is available where most App's just set Mono to Stereo for output but we playback in mono and modify it just a tad and again prepare it if Stereo should occur (Balancing the L/R Channels) but most may not even hear the difference in a loud room but the very least more clear.
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So what are you waiting for? Download Speechy now and see why you don't need to hire a Translator when the best Translator is at your fingertips!
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*SPECIAL THANKS TO (No specific order):
nok_fusion, scoobysnacks, NeilM, diboze, boz, buffalosolja42, mmian, rajivshahi, fuxinyou, wpxbox, and FlashTek95.
Thank you for helping test Speechy/Pro as you've ALL been a lifesaver to have and all over the globe!
i don't have english available into the app,is this normal?
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i don't have english available into the app,is this normal?
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My assumption:
It only uses English as input language. Hence, no option to select input language. The list of languages is for output language.
Note: It would be superb if you include the output text too. It would be a great language learning companion then
nice app!
Do you mean output as English? If yes, the reason behind it is the input at this specific moment only allows English and writes what you said so you're aware of what will be translated.
At this moment however, Spanish input is being worked on, in which case English output will exist for that Profile but Spanish output won't.
Thank you,
Lance
chaitanya91845 said:
My assumption:
It only uses English as input language. Hence, no option to select input language. The list of languages is for output language.
Note: It would be superb if you include the output text too. It would be a great language learning companion then
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First, thank you for your kind words.
The 3rd edition in the "Options" section actually has the ability to dictate / translate to text but we tried to stay away from it but too many have asked for it, so we do what people want and adding it, which if you don't want to go to options every time for text translation, you can enable "Auto Text Translate" plus other stuff. Big update.
Also, we have a "What'd I Say?" feature that stores what you're said, would you ever wish to use this?
Thanks,
Lance
lseidman said:
First, thank you for your kind words.
The 3rd edition in the "Options" section actually has the ability to dictate / translate to text but we tried to stay away from it but too many have asked for it, so we do what people want and adding it, which if you don't want to go to options every time for text translation, you can enable "Auto Text Translate" plus other stuff. Big update.
Also, we have a "What'd I Say?" feature that stores what you're said, would you ever wish to use this?
Thanks,
Lance
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You are welcome
That would indeed be a nice update. "What'd I say" would also be a wonderful addition if one has installed the app to learn a language. If you design "What'd I say" as a table with columns of input text and output text and a small speaker icon that speaks out the output text, it would be awesome.
Note: Please consider using text as input if you are planning another update. It helps if you do not have a US English accent. Or am I asking for too much?
Thanks.
I appreciate your input, the release for the storage of items spoken is a bit similar to what you've described.
As for input of text, the only reason this may not occur is because too many of these types of App's already exist and trying to stay away from non-verbal input but believe it or not, a lot of people can't spell properly and when they manually input (Especially via Mobile Keyboard), if the word doesn't exist or in our case can't pass 2 "Dictionaries" it will fail and sure enough, you'll be seeing how horrible our App is and "They are lucky we can't give them 0 Stars" which it's not always about the rating but to continue development someone has to use it lol. *I have now wondered off the site and thought about what you've requested and took a look at other 'Translators' and the methods seem all the same which maybe it is something we need to maybe add to make a difference and offer a "Fix What I Said" as a small text-link for a custom Popup to request manual input and force the "Chat" keyboard to allow pre-determined words/instant spell check as maybe not everyone can pronounce specific words.*
The current edition was in fact intended for anyone who spoke "English" only and only because the current Microsoft Speech Server that we have doesn't support other languages, which is why we're building our own "Add-ons" to an already existing technology but the current language is Spanish to hopefully recognize and after that, whatever other languages are requested and if we can find a voice actor that is reasonable, hopefully develop it.
Also, you're never asking too much. If you download ANYTHING of ours, I hope you'd recommend anything you'd want or think you'd like to have added. We're trying to be a little bit different than the others and actually listen to what our End-Users say as we have nothing without the EU's, like you and makes your responses invaluable.
Again, thank you very much for taking the time to respond back, I and the other guys do appreciate it.
Thanks,
Lance
chaitanya91845 said:
You are welcome
That would indeed be a nice update. "What'd I say" would also be a wonderful addition if one has installed the app to learn a language. If you design "What'd I say" as a table with columns of input text and output text and a small speaker icon that speaks out the output text, it would be awesome.
Note: Please consider using text as input if you are planning another update. It helps if you do not have a US English accent. Or am I asking for too much?
Thanks.
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lseidman said:
I appreciate your input, the release for the storage of items spoken is a bit similar to what you've described.
As for input of text, the only reason this may not occur is because too many of these types of App's already exist and trying to stay away from non-verbal input but believe it or not, a lot of people can't spell properly and when they manually input (Especially via Mobile Keyboard), if the word doesn't exist or in our case can't pass 2 "Dictionaries" it will fail and sure enough, you'll be seeing how horrible our App is and "They are lucky we can't give them 0 Stars" which it's not always about the rating but to continue development someone has to use it lol. *I have now wondered off the site and thought about what you've requested and took a look at other 'Translators' and the methods seem all the same which maybe it is something we need to maybe add to make a difference and offer a "Fix What I Said" as a small text-link for a custom Popup to request manual input and force the "Chat" keyboard to allow pre-determined words/instant spell check as maybe not everyone can pronounce specific words.*
The current edition was in fact intended for anyone who spoke "English" only and only because the current Microsoft Speech Server that we have doesn't support other languages, which is why we're building our own "Add-ons" to an already existing technology but the current language is Spanish to hopefully recognize and after that, whatever other languages are requested and if we can find a voice actor that is reasonable, hopefully develop it.
Also, you're never asking too much. If you download ANYTHING of ours, I hope you'd recommend anything you'd want or think you'd like to have added. We're trying to be a little bit different than the others and actually listen to what our End-Users say as we have nothing without the EU's, like you and makes your responses invaluable.
Again, thank you very much for taking the time to respond back, I and the other guys do appreciate it.
Thanks,
Lance
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It is always nice to see developers respond readily to user suggestions. It is true that some users misspell words and then curse the app in the review section. The instant spell check/suggest(Google style) would be a nice way to combat this issue. Something like "Did you mean xxxx" after a failed search would also be nice.
It is good to see that you are working on a Spanish input version. I do not know if there is any demand for Hindi(India's national language), but if you ever need voice for it, then contact me.
Thanks.
-Chaitanya
Once again thank you for your input and kind words and the only reason for Spanish input is because in America, the country is being overran with Spanish Speaking immigrants that have no real desire to learn English and if we can't force them or any [non-English speaking] to speak the language of the country, maybe this will help and work with local governments on providing the solution and not have what's current, a problem (This way as they speak we can translate it ourselves as you must assume they won't have the software).
Sounds harsh, sure but the truth hurts and no one else is trying to resolve the issues or help prevent/alleviate them. As for Hindi, off hand I am unsure what our demographics are for this but I know we get more Indian downloaders than Italy, France, and etc...
Either way, thank you very much for the offer and I will pin you to our memo server as a possible voice actor/coach. Also we all agreed we're going to put in the ability to type what you want/fix what was spoken. We'd like to give you a shout out in the about page, what name would you like?
Thanks,
Lance
chaitanya91845 said:
It is always nice to see developers respond readily to user suggestions. It is true that some users misspell words and then curse the app in the review section. The instant spell check/suggest(Google style) would be a nice way to combat this issue. Something like "Did you mean xxxx" after a failed search would also be nice.
It is good to see that you are working on a Spanish input version. I do not know if there is any demand for Hindi(India's national language), but if you ever need voice for it, then contact me.
Thanks.
-Chaitanya
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Once again thank you for your input and kind words and the only reason for Spanish input is because in America, the country is being overran with Spanish Speaking immigrants that have no real desire to learn English and if we can't force them or any [non-English speaking] to speak the language of the country, maybe this will help and work with local governments on providing the solution and not have what's current, a problem (This way as they speak we can translate it ourselves as you must assume they won't have the software).
Sounds harsh, sure but the truth hurts and no one else is trying to resolve the issues or help prevent/alleviate them. As for Hindi, off hand I am unsure what our demographics are for this but I know we get more Indian downloaders than Italy, France, and etc...
Either way, thank you very much for the offer and I will pin you to our memo server as a possible voice actor/coach. Also we all agreed we're going to put in the ability to type what you want/fix what was spoken. We'd like to give you a shout out in the about page, what name would you like?
Thanks,
Lance
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Thanks. That is so very kind of you. My name is Chaitanya Bangera. If you ever need me for voice, I would be more than happy to help.
-Chaitanya
Thank you very much and the least we can do for the idea you offered .
chaitanya91845 said:
Thanks. That is so very kind of you. My name is Chaitanya Bangera. If you ever need me for voice, I would be more than happy to help.
-Chaitanya
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Speechy 1.2 Update
Look for the new Thread labeled Speechy 1.2 Update.
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Better Keyboard works fine per se, but I have issues with the dictionary. According to the creator, I should be able to add words to the dictionary and they should take precedence in the suggestions.
For example, I want to add Haha to the dictionary as it always suggests gaga instead. So I long click Haha and "saved" pops up, but the next time I put in Haha, gaga comes up again.
Anyone else have this issue or know how to get around it?
This doesn't happen for me in BK. Perhaps try uninstall/reinstall the app, and go Settings / Locale & Text / User Dict and make sure your words are in userdic as you expect them to be.
The issues lies in the fact that I have a Rogers Magic which for some dumb ****ing reason has no user dictionary. I have spoken with the creator of BK and we are trying to find a workaround. Apparently the Hero doesn't have a user dictionary either.
Speechy Professional is now released in the marketplace and available for download at $0.99. New revision has already been submitted to make it up to speed at version 1.0.1 (Current Available: 1.0.0), so go download it now at: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c75773d1-84a7-49d2-92a0-c2a52e0df0a3 and check often for updates!
What is Speechy...?
A translator you can really talk to, literally. Say what you need and Speechy will translate and speak out loud what you said in English for others to know what you really want to say in a foreign language. Great tool even if you're just trying to learn the language to prepare for your trip.
So when you're at the Airport and no one speaks English and you don't know the native tongue, you can say "How do I get to Terminal B" and know someone who speaks one of the 15 pre-bundled languages can help you. Why hire a Translator when the best Translator is at your fingertips and you're in control!
How is this DIFFERENT?
1). Mic/Recording Input
Simple! Our voice input function that grabs the audio you speak either close or whichever distance you may be and takes the input from the phone Mic. When using your "Mic", we've designed our own Equalizer that is built-in that actually has various functions and decreases/increases pitch, balance, volume and other aspects to obtaining the audio you speak in which it also breaks it up in to a bunch of "chunks" and sending it via Internet (Wifi Connection or 3G Required) in multiple parts to then have it run through a Speech Server where it is analyzed in each segment of your Mono input (Never Stereo).
2). Cloud Speech Server
When your multiple chunks are each processed one-by-one for better understanding, they are first run under another synthesizer to turn everything flat (Bass, Treble, Pitch/Frequency, etc...) and another technique that let's us better understand what you say, even if you have an accent to the best we can and as each few moments are separated, it allows us to promptly guess what each word is being said and if quickly it fails a built-in/server-run spelling database (Query's originally from Bing!) and if it is still valid it will continue on to check to see if it can find the next best thing using the 2nd Dictionary aka "Phrases" which uses a form of AutoComplete for quicker search which is why you may notice sometimes a little bit of lag time/timely response as it is doing it's very best to try and be 100% accurate.
e.g. "This is a test" may normally be recognized by other Speech Services as "This is a pest". In this case the word "pest" could be valid as it is a US-English Dictionary word but we have one last pass-through that has most common American English phrases that currently only has around 2,000+ but as people report more what they've tried to say and hasn't worked we can add it to the 2nd dictionary for accuracy.
3). Translated Voice Download
Once everything is assumed to be as accurate as possible it will then pass the string through the Bing Translator API and in this case grab the audio from the Bing Translator service and pass it through the App as a "Stream" to download it temporarily (removes every translation or application closing/back button pressed) but only to prepare for output in Mono or Stereo (where available).
4). Translation Output
Once the file is available it immediately streams back out at a specific pitch, frequency, mono playback but made a synthesizer that barely modifies the output a little more to make it louder and easier to understand/sound better on almost any device but more important if Stereo headset/playback is available where most App's just set Mono to Stereo for output but we playback in mono and modify it just a tad and again prepare it if Stereo should occur (Balancing the L/R Channels) but most may not even hear the difference in a loud room but the very least more clear.
Hope this gives you a better insight why a Speechy Pro edition exists for $0.99 where the free edition is awaiting Certification but doesn't have all the features for input/output or all voices available but also has Popup Ad's that aren't really intrusive as you can still record/view/hear with it popping up. Once we hit a specific amount of downloads in the pro edition, we will only continue releasing pro but freely but at this time unsure when that will be but it will just pay for the lighting/power, A/C, Internet, and misc items that we needed to build this.
Thanks!
*SPECIAL THANKS TO (No specific order):
nok_fusion, scoobysnacks, NeilM, diboze, boz, buffalosolja42, mmian, rajivshahi, fuxinyou, wpxbox, and FlashTek95.
Thank you for helping test Speechy as you've been a lifesaver to have testers all over the globe!
No Trial Mode ?
wpxbox said:
No Trial Mode ?
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A Trial won't exist as the Free edition will actually be the same exact thing but with Ad's. No limitations as originally thought but if the user won't want the Ad's, he/she can go Pro but we felt it wasn't fair to limit anyone from usage. Just waiting for Microsoft to accept... One day...
Do you think a trial for the pro-edition should be added? If yes, we can always throw it in...
It will be implemented inverse direction translation?
eg: from Spanish to English
dormix said:
It will be implemented inverse direction translation?
eg: from Spanish to English
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In short, not at this time unfortunately.
works great! I left a review in the store; but I'll repeat my suggestion here: you should at the very least be able to replay the last translated phrase. Better yet, add a history tab to replay all previous queries.
Hello,
Thank you so much for trying out Speechy. We actually have an update that should be coming to your device very shortly that does allow re-translation. If you look at the Screen Shot's here, you'll notice the slightly different interface you have right now and that extra button does actually allow you to "Re-Translate" without re-speaking.
Where is the update? It is still being tested by Microsoft and once accepted, it will be pushed out as an Update. So check back here often OR check the Marketplace often for updates.
As for storing things spoken, that is a great suggestion. We will go forth an offer that as one of the option in most likely the next version for you, which won't be 1.0.1 (pending) or 1.0.2 (awaiting 1.0.1 release for this update to publish) but most likely 1.0.3 as this will have the "Options" button that has several additional things you can do with Speechy.
We welcome any and all suggestions as this App is for you, the end-user and as one of our customers we'd like to continue to satisfy you, so anything you'd like to see please recommend and we'll do our best to implement it in future versions.
Again, thank you so much for taking the time to try our program and especially writing a review, we do really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Lance
link68759 said:
works great! I left a review in the store; but I'll repeat my suggestion here: you should at the very least be able to replay the last translated phrase. Better yet, add a history tab to replay all previous queries.
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The new edition of Speechy Pro has been accepted and now in the Marketplace, go Update now or download directly at: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c75773d1-84a7-49d2-92a0-c2a52e0df0a3.
What languages are supported?
Hi,
Apologies if this has been covered, I've searched the forum and also general Google but couldn't find information.
Is it possible to limit the library or to put priority on words with voice recognition? i.e. if there is only certain names etc is it possible to manually give them priority? Or is it something that I just have to wait until I've used them enough and Google "learns" the ones that I want?
Thanks
Nick
burnt_52 said:
Hi,
Apologies if this has been covered, I've searched the forum and also general Google but couldn't find information.
Is it possible to limit the library or to put priority on words with voice recognition? i.e. if there is only certain names etc is it possible to manually give them priority? Or is it something that I just have to wait until I've used them enough and Google "learns" the ones that I want?
Thanks
Nick
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NO
Pretty straight forward, if this is how you try to help, better don't do it.
Voice recognition depends on the language you are using and the language you speak, if you have it settled to English but your mother language is other then its probably your diction, voice recognition its pretty complicated for software.
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Hi everyone,
I've created a translation tool. It's written in Java for Servlet Spec 3.0, and uses OpenID for authentication. Currently i've only implemented a PostgreSQL back-end but it can easily support MySQL or even AppEngine.
If anyone is interested, i'll open-source it so you can host it yourself.
You can try it out, by helping me translate my app Timesheet: :laugh:
https://llamalab.com/timesheet/translation/
Please leave any feedback about the tool here.
ballzak said:
Hi everyone,
I've created a translation tool. It's written in Java for Servlet Spec 3.0, and uses OpenID for authentication. Currently i've only implemented a PostgreSQL back-end but it can easily support MySQL or even AppEngine.
If anyone is interested, i'll open-source it so you can host it yourself.
You can try it out, by helping me translate my app Timesheet: :laugh:
https://llamalab.com/timesheet/translation/
Please leave any feedback about the tool here.
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Wow, I just started to use this translator and I am really surprised, all thumbs up! :good::good:
It's easy to use and very fast switching to next translation string. It's very pleasing. And I am very happy, you'll open source this piece of software, great. Is it possible that you host other translation projects or is this intended as a demonstration? However, thanks for that, I really like
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Where is the source available or will be? Would frankly put this tool in first post for the developers. Also, if you need further tests for your timesheet app, go ahead to App Tester Index.
benkxda said:
Wow, I just started to use this translator and I am really surprised, all thumbs up! :good::good:
It's easy to use and very fast switching to next translation string. It's very pleasing. And I am very happy, you'll open source this piece of software, great. Is it possible that you host other translation projects or is this intended as a demonstration? However, thanks for that, I really like
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Where is the source available or will be? Would frankly put this tool in first post for the developers. Also, if you need further tests for your timesheet app, go ahead to App Tester Index.
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I made it for the translation of my own app. But if others would like to use the tool, i'll open-source it. I just made the tool public so i'd like some usage feedback, bug squashing, before i'll post the source on github or alike.
It's not a cloud service. If you got a server running a Java Servlet container like Tomcat with a PostgreSQL database, you'll be able to host it yourself as is. If you use MySQL we'll maybe have to change some sql statement first.
gaich said:
I would prefer I can edit or delete my translations.
I have made an error and it cannot be deleted. So I make another translation, the right one, but when I return to this line, I see the first one, with error, is still present and is above the right one, I tried to rate the wrong one down and the right one viceversa, it doesn`t work. Does it mean the wrong translation can be merged?
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Fixed the bug that prevented you from down-rating a translation alternative. As for deleting. Tricky to implement, don't want users to delete an established alternative that may have gotten votes. Maybe allow the person who submitted it to only remove it for a certain time?
As it is now, only the administrator can "approve" an translation alternative, which is then exported. I was thinking the administrator would go through the translations and approve the highest rated translation. But it may be better if i'll add an "approver" user role so that a trusted contributor, like yourself , can approve a certain language translations?
gaich said:
And in the summary section of each xml I`d like to see two more columns, right to the NAME, maybe, a column with the original text and to the right of TRANSLATED - a column with the translated text. Let them be abbreviated to save space, but it will be very useful to search through the text, return to the strings I want to correct etc. It is hard to search through codes indicated in NAMES...
Or, instead of this, it would be great to have a separate page with a table where I can see just the original text on one side and the translation on the other - so i could have the whole translation to correct in context, because now I can forget which Russian term I assigned to "Mileage", for example in the first lines of the translation and I can translate it with different word at the end. And when I can see the whole translation, I can easily correct it. Right now I have to search through the codes and even corrected I am not sure the wrong translation will be dismissed or included, as I said earlier.
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Sounds reasonable. I'll see what i can do.
gaich said:
By the way, Russian is done, just these things above should be taken into account.
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Wow, thanks! Your a super-hero. :good:
ballzak said:
Fixed the bug that prevented you from down-rating a translation alternative. As for deleting. Tricky to implement, don't want users to delete an established alternative that may have gotten votes. Maybe allow the person who submitted it to only remove it for a certain time?
As it is now, only the administrator can "approve" an translation alternative, which is then exported. I was thinking the administrator would go through the translations and approve the highest rated translation. But it may be better if i'll add an "approver" user role so that a trusted contributor, like yourself , can approve a certain language translations?
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Of course, people shouldn`t delete other user`s translations! I am talking about only one who submitted it could delete and edit it.
For example - you just put your hand an keyboard occasionaly and typed something like fagerwtywrjkoivthi genk;xcnF and submitted it ocasionaly too, and there will be found many "experienced" users to vote and rank this translation, as a result, it will appear in the app when it is released.
It is true, sometimes I read translations on crowding and cannot downrate the incorrect ones because there are more than 1 vote for it!
It`s easier, when you`re proofreader or, as you say, approver, such person is necessary, it has the rights to edit, delete and approve all translations for this language. It makes the unique style for the app - because it isn`t always good if there are many translators - they could use different terms and expressions and all will be rated by the third user... As a result the app user will be confused with different meanings of the same word.
I am proofreader for some crowding projects, so I am sure these translations will be good for the user. Not sure other will.
So if you will make such kind of person and grant him such kind or rights, I will be glad to help you with Russian!:laugh:
P.S.-I still cannot downrate the incorrect translations.
P.P.S.S. even if I sign in with other account.
gaich said:
Of course, people shouldn`t delete other user`s translations! I am talking about only one who submitted it could delete and edit it.
For example - you just put your hand an keyboard occasionaly and typed something like fagerwtywrjkoivthi genk;xcnF and submitted it ocasionaly too, and there will be found many "experienced" users to vote and rank this translation, as a result, it will appear in the app when it is released.
It is true, sometimes I read translations on crowding and cannot downrate the incorrect ones because there are more than 1 vote for it!
It`s easier, when you`re proofreader or, as you say, approver, such person is necessary, it has the rights to edit, delete and approve all translations for this language. It makes the unique style for the app - because it isn`t always good if there are many translators - they could use different terms and expressions and all will be rated by the third user... As a result the app user will be confused with different meanings of the same word.
I am proofreader for some crowding projects, so I am sure these translations will be good for the user. Not sure other will.
So if you will make such kind of person and grant him such kind or rights, I will be glad to help you with Russian!:laugh:
P.S.-I still cannot downrate the incorrect translations.
P.P.S.S. even if I sign in with other account.
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I've implemented "contributors" and given you "approver" status for Russian. You should be able to down-rate. The translation alternatives are sorted by "rating", you just didn't see the current rating number. Only the admin and approver can see that, so now you should see it.
Wow I just tried your translation tool and I am impressed!
Any news about open sourcing it?
iapps said:
Wow I just tried your translation tool and I am impressed!
Any news about open sourcing it?
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The front-end for the participating translator is pretty complete. But i've not had the time to fix the developer side ui, for adding and updating the strings to be translated. It's a hazzle to use, and until i fix that it's not ready for release.
ballzak said:
The front-end for the participating translator is pretty complete. But i've not had the time to fix the developer side ui, for adding and updating the strings to be translated. It's a hazzle to use, and until i fix that it's not ready for release.
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OK! If/When it's ready I will be interested in hosting a copy on app engine so that anyone can use! :good:
Hello all,
I'm not sure if this is general or off topic. Please share as I would really love assistance with this. I would like it to get to the right person/people.
You all are great at what you do by the way.
If you don't mind me giving you a little history/herstory lol behind my request.
The other day I ran into a young lady which I lended assistance. I found she didn't speak English. I then attempted unsuccessfully to use a translator app to communicate with her. Thing is I couldn't understand the language she spoke to input the correct language to translate.
Which brings me to my dilemma. Does anyone know of or wouldn't mind developing an app to assist with people with communicating though you do not particularly know exactly what language they speak.
I would be so very grateful for your help thank you for your attention and assistance.
Exclusively Urshero
Google Translate has a 'Detect Language' option amongst its language choices. (All the way at the top).
ShadowLea said:
Google Translate has a 'Detect Language' option amongst its language choices. (All the way at the top).
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It does not recognize spoken language however. That would be a nice feature in an app, but impossible to make I would think...
The mic
The mic doesn't work in that function. :-/
VilleI said:
It does not recognize spoken language however. That would be a nice feature in an app, but impossible to make I would think...
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Let's hope for the best. Don't cut it off before it has had a chance to be attempted.
Well I guess that it's surely doable, just make the app use the Google speech recognition to determine the language being spoken.
Yet it means that you would have to somehow let the lady know that you want her to talk directly to the phone
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Well I guess that it's surely doable, just make the app use the Google speech recognition to determine the language being spoken.
Yet it means that you would have to somehow let the lady know that you want her to talk directly to the phone
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I have the picture that for the speech recognition to work it needs to know the language that is being spoken. So it cannot guess the spoken language. Correct me if I and wrong?
Edit: now I and laughing at the idea that someone comes asking for help and you start waving a phone in their face while making weird gestures
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I have the picture that for the speech recognition to work it needs to know the language that is being spoken. So it cannot guess the spoken language. Correct me if I and wrong?
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Didn't say it wouldn't require some tinkering here and there... I bet it would work like all the song recognizing apps, I mean TrackID or similar. Just record a few secs of the incoming sound, compare it with the database and boom, your amigo sprechst français
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Edit: now I and laughing at the idea that someone comes asking for help and you start waving a phone in their face while making weird gestures
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„What the heck is that psycho doing? Trying to post my face on youtube? Am I THAT ugly?”
VilleI said:
It does not recognize spoken language however. That would be a nice feature in an app, but impossible to make I would think...
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Urshero said:
The mic doesn't work in that function. :-/
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It doesn't? Well, sh*t...
Though truthfully I was thinking more along the lines of letting your conversational partner simply either type (so Google can recognise it) or select their own language in the app. You can go a long way with pointing and gesturing.