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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.
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The app is small (under 30 MB for all languages off-line translation). We do not show ads.
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The app indicates translation confidence with colours:
<ul>
<li><b>Green</b>:
semantic translation, should be correct.
But not necessarily the only correct one.
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<li><b>Yellow</b>:
syntactic translation, should be grammatically correct.
But can be very strange in its interpretation and choice of words.
</li>
<li><b>Light red</b>:
chunk translation, probably incorrect.
Builds the translation from small pieces.
</li>
<li><b>Dark red</b>:
word-by-word translation, almost certainly incorrect.
Builds the translation word by word.
</li>
</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.
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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
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:
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<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>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>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>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>
</table>
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<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.
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When you tap on a translation you get a screen with <b>alternative translations</b>.
Tapping on each of the alternatives
gives you <b>grammatical information</b>:
an inflection table, if it is a single word,
and a syntax tree otherwise.
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The app also provides an <b>input method</b> which you can use as
an alternative keyboard which allows you to do translation from
other applications, for instance while you are entering SMS or e-mail.
To activate it go to Settings > Language & input.
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The Human Languge Compiler works <b>completely off-line</b>, without
internet connection, when doing text-based translation.
Even speech works off-line in some languages,
but being on-line may give you better
speech input and output.
You can also install third-party off-line speech engines, such as SVOX.
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Powered by <a href="http://www.grammaticalframework.org/">GF</a>,
built by support from the GF community and from <a href="http://www.digitalgrammars.com/">Digital Grammars</a>.
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<i>Digital Grammars can tailor this app to you needs - tell us what you want to see
in the green area!</i>
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