From f600cf35e8f0907bbad26f6f54f064e17053061b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: aarne Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 09:23:44 +0000 Subject: fixes in app help file ; commented out fake TTS for Bul and Cat ; remove []_ from output with unlinearized functions, so that speech doesn't get garbled. --- src/ui/android/assets/help_content.html | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/ui/android/assets/help_content.html') 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 @@

-Speech input: Press microphone icon and talk. +Speech input: Tap microphone icon and talk while it is red.
-Text input: Select "keyboard" from menu, press keyboard icon. +Text input: Select "keyboard" from menu, tap keyboard icon.
-Correction: Press input text. +Correction: Tap input text.
-Alternatives: Press output text +Alternatives: Tap output text
-Grammar info: Press any of alternatives. +Grammar info: Tap any of the alternatives.
Confidence: colour of output text

@@ -27,15 +27,18 @@

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.

-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.

The app indicates translation confidence with colours: 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".

-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 speech recognition errors. Changing words +from upper to lower case may also be needed. +

+

+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:

@@ -69,21 +77,25 @@ The following table gives a rough idea of what to expect: coverage quality speed speech Bulgarian in only Catalan in only - Chinese diff in/out + Chinese diff in/out* Dutch English - Finnish + Finnish in only French German - Hindi out only + Hindi in only Italian Spanish - Swedish + Swedish in only -Bulgarian uses Russian voice for output, -Catalan uses a Spanish voice. -Chinese uses Mandarin for input and Cantonese for output. +*Chinese uses Mandarin for input and Cantonese for output. +

+

+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.

@@ -112,11 +124,13 @@ You can also install third-party off-line speech engines, such as SVOX.

Powered by GF, +based on open-source software, built by support from the GF community and from Digital Grammars.

-Digital Grammars can tailor this app to you needs - tell us what you want to see +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!

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