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diff --git a/src/ui/android/assets/help_content.html b/src/ui/android/assets/help_content.html index 45281ce2d..0ea34df15 100644 --- a/src/ui/android/assets/help_content.html +++ b/src/ui/android/assets/help_content.html @@ -2,22 +2,22 @@ <body> <p> -<b>Speech input</b>: Press microphone icon and talk. +<b>Speech input</b>: Tap microphone icon and talk while it is red. <br> -<b>Text input</b>: Select "keyboard" from menu, press keyboard icon. +<b>Text input</b>: Select "keyboard" from menu, tap keyboard icon. <br> -<b>Correction</b>: Press input text. +<b>Correction</b>: Tap input text. <br> -<b>Alternatives</b>: Press output text +<b>Alternatives</b>: Tap output text <br> -<b>Grammar info</b>: Press any of alternatives. +<b>Grammar info</b>: Tap any of the alternatives. <br> <b>Confidence</b>: colour of output text <ul> -<li><span style="background-color:palegreen">Green</span>: Probably correct (but not the only one)</li> -<li><span style="background-color:yellow">Yellow</span>: May be correct</li> -<li><span style="background-color:pink">Light red</span>: Rough, probably incorrect</li> -<li><span style="background-color:red">Dark red</span>: If all else fails, usually incorrect</li> +<li><span style="background-color:palegreen">Green</span>: Fully analysed, probably correct (but has alternatives)</li> +<li><span style="background-color:yellow">Yellow</span>: A good guess, may be correct</li> +<li><span style="background-color:pink">Light red</span>: A rough guess, probably incorrect</li> +<li><span style="background-color:red">Dark red</span>: Word by word, usually incorrect</li> </ul> </p> @@ -27,15 +27,18 @@ <p> The Human Language Compiler is a translator for human language based on programming language technology: grammars and semantics. Therefore it is compact in size -and gives control on quality. +and gives control on quality. Most other translator are based on +statistics and have less controll of quality and either require +an internet connection or have a much bigger size. <p> -The app is small (under 30 MB for all languages off-line translation). We do not show ads. +The app is small (under 30 MB for all languages in off-line translation). We do not show ads. </p> The app indicates translation confidence with colours: <ul> <li><b>Green</b>: semantic translation, should be correct. - But not necessarily the only correct one. + But not necessarily the only correct one. + You can tap the output to see alternatives. </li> <li><b>Yellow</b>: syntactic translation, should be grammatically correct. @@ -52,13 +55,18 @@ The app indicates translation confidence with colours: </ul> The green translations come from a tourist phrasebook, which allows you to translate things like "hello" and "how far is the airport from -the hotel". But this part can be easily adapted to other uses, such as -technical language. +the hotel". </p> <p> -You can translate both speech and text, as selected in the menu in the upper right corner. -Translation works between any pair of the supported languages, which means 110 +You can translate both speech and text, as selected in the menu in the +upper right corner. Both kinds of input can be edited with the +keyboard by first tapping at the input field. This is often needed +because of <b>speech recognition errors</b>. Changing words +from <b>upper to lower case</b> may also be needed. +</p> +<p> +Translation works between any pair of the supported languages, which means 132 language pairs at the moment. But different languages are on different levels of development. The following table gives a rough idea of what to expect: </p> @@ -69,21 +77,25 @@ The following table gives a rough idea of what to expect: <tr> <th></th> <th>coverage</th> <th>quality</th> <th>speed</th> <th>speech</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Bulgarian</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>in only</td></tr> <tr> <th>Catalan</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>in only</td></tr> -<tr> <th>Chinese</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>diff in/out</td> </tr> +<tr> <th>Chinese</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>diff in/out*</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Dutch</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> </tr> <tr> <th>English</th> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> </tr> -<tr> <th>Finnish</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr> +<tr> <th>Finnish</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>in only</td></tr> <tr> <th>French</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=red></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr> <tr> <th>German</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr> -<tr> <th>Hindi</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>out only</td> </tr> +<tr> <th>Hindi</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>in only</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Italian</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=pink></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr> <tr> <th>Spanish</th> <td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td><td bgcolor=pink></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td></tr> -<tr> <th>Swedish</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> </tr> +<tr> <th>Swedish</th> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=yellow></td> <td bgcolor=palegreen></td> <td bgcolor=yellow>in only</td></tr> </table> </center> -<b>Bulgarian</b> uses Russian voice for output, -<b>Catalan</b> uses a Spanish voice. -<b>Chinese</b> uses Mandarin for input and Cantonese for output. +*<b>Chinese</b> uses Mandarin for input and Cantonese for output. +</p> +<p> +The speech input and output use Google's voice services. Their status +can hence change without notice. You can make it more stable by +installing third-party speech tools, such as SVOX, which also provides +output in Finnish and Swedish. </p> <p> @@ -112,11 +124,13 @@ You can also install third-party off-line speech engines, such as SVOX. <p> Powered by <a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/">GF</a>, +based on open-source software, built by support from the GF community and from <a href="http://www.digitalgrammars.com/">Digital Grammars</a>. </p> <p> -<i>Digital Grammars can tailor this app to you needs - tell us what you want to see +<i>Digital Grammars can tailor this app to you needs and provide good +translation for the kind of vocabulary you need. Just tell us what you want to see in the green area!</i> </p> diff --git a/src/ui/android/project.properties b/src/ui/android/project.properties index ce39f2d0a..6e18427a4 100644 --- a/src/ui/android/project.properties +++ b/src/ui/android/project.properties @@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ #proguard.config=${sdk.dir}/tools/proguard/proguard-android.txt:proguard-project.txt # Project target. -target=android-18 +target=android-21 diff --git a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java index 712418898..716523462 100644 --- a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java +++ b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java @@ -140,11 +140,17 @@ public class ConversationView extends ScrollView { target = target.subSequence(1, target.length()).toString().trim(); } - // parse error or unknown translations (in []) present, darkest red color - else if (target.toString().contains("parse error:") || target.toString().contains("[")) { + // parse error: darkest red color + else if (target.toString().contains("parse error:")) { view.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.second_person_worst_utterance_bg)); } + // unknown linearizations in output: darkest red color. But replace [ ] by spaces and remove _ for better speech synthesis + else if (target.toString().contains("[")) { + view.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.second_person_worst_utterance_bg)); + target = target.toString().replace('[',' ').replace(']',' ').replaceAll("_","").trim(); + } + // parse by domain grammar, marked by +, green color else if (target.charAt(0) == '+') { view.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.second_person_best_utterance_bg)); diff --git a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/TTS.java b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/TTS.java index 4b9242af6..d52315fec 100644 --- a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/TTS.java +++ b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/TTS.java @@ -26,13 +26,15 @@ public class TTS { if (mAudioManager.getRingerMode() == AudioManager.RINGER_MODE_NORMAL) { - /* hack for missing TTS */ + /* hack for missing TTS -- don't use for official release! if (language.equals("bg-BG")) { language = "ru-RU"; } if (language.equals("ca-ES")) { language = "es-ES"; // hardly politically correct... } + */ + /* OR use separate entries for Cantonese and Mandarin */ if (language.equals("cmn-Hans-CN")) { language = "yue"; |