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I agree completely. Language is alive, and learning words is much easier for me if they're in context. I'm not learning Latin, but I am learning Chinese. I wro

I agree completely. Language is alive, and learning words is much easier for me if they're in context. I'm not learning Latin, but I am learning Chinese. I wrote http://pingtype.github.io http://pingtype.github.io to put spaces between words, colours for tones, pinyin romanisation, and a literal translation on the line below. I could probably do the same for Latin. First I'm doing English-to-Chinese (the other way), then I might try Taiwanese and Japanese, but the structure of the program is all the same. I just have to gather the data for each new language. Comment if you're interested, and I'll let you know when I finally get around to working on it. There have been a few Latin/Greek posts on HN that get upvoted a lot, so I think there's some demand.

mncharity 9y ago
Nifty. I went looking for google translate style audio, and found the Advanced > Audio button, and hit a bug. Page load; for Chinese input, enter "中文輸入"; Translate; Audio; surprised by English input and Chinese spaced having cat and ffmpeg command lines. Feature idea: permit repeatedly playing the audio for just a part of the phrase. Often when using ggl translate, I want to rehear just a syllable or word I'm unsure of, or am having trouble with. Google makes you rehear the whole thing, which is simple, but discourages double-checks, and impairs iteration.
- peterburkimsher 9y ago
  Sorry! Thank you for exploring the Advanced features, I put a lot of effort into those, but they need more explaining. I'm pleased that you actually looked at it though :). The audio feature doesn't actually play audio. It's supposed to generate input commands to put into ffmpeg. I would write more documentation, but my priority is to get the existing documentation translated to Chinese. I asked 4 friends over the past 3 months, all have promised to do it, but only one of them translated one page. I don't think there's a way to do what you're asking using only client-side JavaScript. I would need a server to generate an audio file for you. Unfortunately, I don't have the money for that. The most I could do would be to generate an M3U playlist file, which you could then save and navigate using the chapter feature of your music player.
  - mncharity 9y ago
    > get the existing documentation translated to Chinese http://opennmt.net/ http://opennmt.net/ links to a "Live system" with a Chinese option. Discussed on infoworld[1]. FWIW, its translation of "This is a test." was at least recognized by google translate. > audio [...] using only client-side JavaScript It looks like the audio starts out as small mp3 files, which are then concatenated? There are WebAudio-based libraries both for playing one file after another, and for concatenating them for download.[2] For the mp4 subtitles, hmm, well, even if nothing else, there's ffmpeg.js[3] (but fonts might be an issue?). Thanks for your work. :) [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/3152050/artificial-intelligence/open-source-challenger-takes-on-google-translate.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/3152050/artificial-intellig... [2] For example (merely the first one I saw): https://github.com/jackedgson/crunker https://github.com/jackedgson/crunker [3] https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js
JoeDaDude 9y ago
I'd be interested in a Latin version. Your description sounds exactly like what I need.

mncharity 9y ago

Nifty. I went looking for google translate style audio, and found the Advanced > Audio button, and hit a bug. Page load; for Chinese input, enter "中文輸入"; Translate; Audio; surprised by English input and Chinese spaced having cat and ffmpeg command lines. Feature idea: permit repeatedly playing the audio for just a part of the phrase. Often when using ggl translate, I want to rehear just a syllable or word I'm unsure of, or am having trouble with. Google makes you rehear the whole thing, which is simple, but discourages double-checks, and impairs iteration.

peterburkimsher 9y ago
Sorry! Thank you for exploring the Advanced features, I put a lot of effort into those, but they need more explaining. I'm pleased that you actually looked at it though :). The audio feature doesn't actually play audio. It's supposed to generate input commands to put into ffmpeg. I would write more documentation, but my priority is to get the existing documentation translated to Chinese. I asked 4 friends over the past 3 months, all have promised to do it, but only one of them translated one page. I don't think there's a way to do what you're asking using only client-side JavaScript. I would need a server to generate an audio file for you. Unfortunately, I don't have the money for that. The most I could do would be to generate an M3U playlist file, which you could then save and navigate using the chapter feature of your music player.
- mncharity 9y ago
  > get the existing documentation translated to Chinese http://opennmt.net/ http://opennmt.net/ links to a "Live system" with a Chinese option. Discussed on infoworld[1]. FWIW, its translation of "This is a test." was at least recognized by google translate. > audio [...] using only client-side JavaScript It looks like the audio starts out as small mp3 files, which are then concatenated? There are WebAudio-based libraries both for playing one file after another, and for concatenating them for download.[2] For the mp4 subtitles, hmm, well, even if nothing else, there's ffmpeg.js[3] (but fonts might be an issue?). Thanks for your work. :) [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/3152050/artificial-intelligence/open-source-challenger-takes-on-google-translate.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/3152050/artificial-intellig... [2] For example (merely the first one I saw): https://github.com/jackedgson/crunker https://github.com/jackedgson/crunker [3] https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js

JoeDaDude 9y ago

I'd be interested in a Latin version. Your description sounds exactly like what I need.