Translation plug-in for browsers
Does Abrowser or Midori have a plug-in for translating a page in a foreign language to English, like what Chromium does. Just curious. I've been looking at Trisquel documentation & searching on forum here but can't find out.
How would it do the translation? Send the page to a remote service for translation and show the result? That would mean the extension is nothing more than a SaaS front end.
В 04:08 +0200 на 12.10.2012 (пт), name at domain написа:
> How would it do the translation? Send the page to a remote service for
> translation and show the result? That would mean the extension is nothing
> more than a SaaS front end.
Not a plugin, but ... There is a free software (GPL) machine translation
tool called Apertium that seems promising. [1] [2] Don't forget the
bleeding edge versions as well. They also have a surf and translate
feature that seems to be non-working at the moment, but anyone can
install and run a copy on their own machine.
[1] http://www.apertium.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apertium
Nice :D I didn't knew that a free solution existed ! Just a curiosity.. it is my or almost all of the Free Software is made (almost everything) by Spanish (language not country) people ?
I guess there is a bias here: Trisquel started in Spain. That is why Spanish users are over-represented (nothing pejorative, just statistics!). They obviously better know projects from Spain or for the Spanish language.
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The project was originally started in Spain at a Spanish university. Rubén continued the project outside of university. At some point Richard Stallman asked Rubén to move it to English. I'm unsure what the exact reason was although I believe it had something to do with numbers and English being the most common language. That was certainly not a bad move. From a quick glance there appear to be as many English speaking users today as Spanish. However the world-wide population favors English. If there are 500 million Spanish speakers (1st and 2nd languages) in the world there are almost that many native speakers for English. Then combine those that speak a 2nd language and you end up with possibly as many as 1 billion.
The only other language with a larger number of users might be Chinese. Although this would depend on how you tally the numbers. There are different dialects.