Hi Rui, On 16 dic, 01:37, Rui Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Pablo, > > I see, ES == Español, you are Spanish? hope I am not wrong.... :))
Nope, I'm from Colombia. > What! I'm shocking, or even scared, the ROBOT does all the job for it! But I > thought that these bots must be programmed well by man, and that comforted > me a little. :)) Sometimes I do found words in wiktionary that I don't found anywhere else. And its multilingual nature is also worthy. I haven't found crazy definitions up to now. > ----->People have a quite widespread theory that computers(robots) would > take over the world one day, is it for real? ...nobody knows until that day > arrives. Huh. I already have a picture in mind of what that will look like: > to abandon our flesh and translate our persnal life into electronic form > when that moment dawned. That's great. And I have something to say to the > people who have the chance to live in that era: Enjoy the everlasting life, > you immortal! <-----Myself wonder where this comes out...not so sure, > ...random imagination?...crazy...hehe.... > Something to quote: "The English Wiktionary, however does not rely on bots to the extent that somewhat smaller editions do. " > For sound files, I find there is a file named sounds_free.bin in the > installation folder, its size is less than 12MB though. It seems that, > really as you said, it has slimmed down much in new free version. > considering the page you given, the pro edition have the ability to > pronounce 70,000 audio recordings, the free one like what I got has the > limited power to pronounce only 5000 items. How come? I am pretty sure: Now > the team of WordWeb want payments from this newly updated after letting > users taste the old vesion. We'll see what will bring us the version 7 ;) Well, to download 84 MB and to expand and copy the sound files wasn't friendly at all. From the point of view of usability I think version 6 is a big step ahead. Regards, Pablo > > Take Care, > > Rui > > 2009/12/16 Pablo <[email protected]> > > > Hi Rui and all! > > > On Dec 15, 2:12 am, Rui Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Pablo, > > > > I have already got WordWeb 6 the free version installed on my machine! > > What > > > a surprise that it launched very fast! The tabs aligned horizontally on > > its > > > interface, from left to right, are WordWeb, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, > > WordWeb > > > Online, zh.wikipedia, and zh.wiktionary. Whoa, how could it know I need > > the > > > last two tabs? Did it check my windows language settings? And I am > > curious > > > I don't know... ;) Mine get es.wikipedia and es.wiktionary ;) > > Wiktionary has turned out to be useful for me, but one day I read > > this: > > > "Despite Wiktionary's large number of entries, most of the entries and > > many of the definitions at the project's largest language editions > > were created by bots that found creative ways to generate entries or > > (rarely) automatically imported thousands of entries from previously > > published dictionaries." [1]. > > > It's shocking and interesting, isn't it? > > > About wordweb sound files, I haven't realized that version 6 includes > > sounds, please read this: > > >http://wordweb.info/users/sound.html > > > Well, I haven't had the opportunity to compare the sounds of version 5 > > and 6, but version 6 installer is just 17 MB, and sound files for > > version 5 is over 80 MB: > > >http://wordweb.info/users/sound.html > > > Thank you, > > > Pablo > > > > what happened to yours? > > > > Happy all the time! > > > > Rui > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "ESL Podcast". > > To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just > > reply this message > > For invite your friends, visit: > >http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite > > Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: > >http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions
