[sldev] Autotranslation build to try out

Nexii Malthus nexiim at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 10 12:46:32 PDT 2009


Woops, wish gmail would reply to mailing lists properly.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Nexii Malthus <nexiim at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Wow! Auto-translation, this is a *huge *important feature. I considered
> something similiar being conceived but seeing a real working implementation
> is fantastic.
>
> And I have to add in my vote for opening up the URL for easier runtime
> modification as well, potential for abuse is minimal compared to the
> potential benefits in that. As well as open up the user to preferable
> translation websites.
>
> - Nexii Malthus
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:35 PM, David Simmons <techiedavid at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The actually translation is call by the lltranslate.cpp, the google
>> url is hardcoded, it should not be hard to make it a setting in the
>> xml file:
>>
>> +// These two are concatenated with the language specifiers to form a
>> complete Google Translate URL
>> +const char* LLTranslate::m_GoogleURL =
>> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=";
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Jo Grant <jo_grant at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > By what mechanism is the translation done? If it's not local, what is
>> the transport mechanism to and from the translation service?
>> > I've done a lot of work on chat translation and you can't forget the
>> privacy concerns. Not that Second Life chat is secure anyway, but people are
>> going to want to know who their chats are being sent to. If it's going up
>> and down the line via https, or some other secured transfer protocol, that's
>> one step. However, a picky person would say that if the service logs the
>> text submitted for translation (which Google does, to build up it's
>> dictionaries) than it is a violation of the terms of service.
>> > Just saying...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Jo /Jaymin Carthage
>> >
>> >
>> > ***************************************
>> > Jo Grant, jo_grant at us.ibm.com
>> > http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/roivw
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>> > tel: 617-693-6089
>> > SL: Jaymin Carthage
>> >
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