Mikel Artetxe <[email protected]> writes: > Let's see: Apertium's language packs take about 5MB while Google > Translate's language packs take about 150MB. Do we need to make our > packs even smaller? It would be nice, of course, but I think that they > are small enough as they are (even the cheapest device has 8GB > nowadays, so 5MB is not a big deal). And in case somebody wants to > work on it, the easiest way would be to create Android specific packs > rather than removing unusual vocabulary. I mean, current packs are not > only compatible with the Android app, but also with Apertium-Caffeine, > Apertium-OmegaT and they can even work as standalone desktop > applications; removing the extra stuff that is bundled to support all > this is really simple and can save some considerable space. But I > insist that, in my opinion, this would be pretty irrelevant for 99.99% > of users.
Agree (as did Arink, if I read the original post correctly). > As for Google Translate's app integrating better in Android, it is > true that it has some great features that Apertium's app misses. > Implementing some of them (like offline OCR[1], which was suggested > during last GSoC) would be nice and relatively easy, but some others > (like TTS or voice recognition, at least for all the minor languages > that Apertium supports) would probably be unachievable for us. Doesn't Android come with some recognition and TTS built-in? If so, it might be useful to have a button that uses the built-in service where Android makes it available. My main wish for Android would be support for HFST's dictionaries; I read http://lists.puimula.org/pipermail/libvoikko/2012-August/000442.html as HFST being used for spellers on Android 4+ at least. -- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-email/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
