gHacks technology news » language software http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Foreign Language Identifier http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/02/foreign-language-identifier/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/02/foreign-language-identifier/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:25:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10856 Does it happen often to you that you receive correspondence in a language that you cannot identify right away? Or that you stumble upon the most exciting website only to find out that you have no clue what language it is written in? If you are on the Internet you might want to try your luck with translation services like Google Translate. This will only work on the other hand if the language is one of the few supported of the service. But what if it is not? The first step of being able to understand the message is to identify the foreign language it was written in.

One excellent foreign language identifier is Polyglot 3000. The main – and only purpose – of the software program is to identify foreign languages. It does that by analyzing text that gets pasted into its interface. All that the user needs to do is therefor copy a sample of the text into the program interface and hit the F9 key to make the software analyze the text.

The software will display the identified foreign language afterwards giving a percentage value that is defining the recognition accuracy. The program will furthermore rate the recognition rate and display similar languages.

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Polyglot 3000 is currently supported 474 different languages that it can recognize. The recognition can be narrowed down by only scanning for the most popular languages or only Cyrillic languages. The software program supports both Unicode and ANSI encodings.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/02/foreign-language-identifier/feed/ 9 Learning Software Teach 2000 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/11/learning-software-teach-2000/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/11/learning-software-teach-2000/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:53:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6941 I started learning two new languages this week which are Japanese and Swedish. While Swedish is pretty easy for someone who is speaking English and German (and a little bit of Danish), Japanese is not. The main problem is that you have to think around two corners at the beginning. You can read every letter in Swedish just fine and only need to know the word to understand it. In Japanese you need to understand Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji first to be able to read the words.

That’s were learning software like Teach 2000 come into play. Teach 2000 offers a flexible learning system which is based on flash cards which is excellent for learning words, letters but also everything else that can be put on the left and right side of a flashcard. The world’s capitals and their countries, the mountains and their heights and so on.

Teach 2000 comes as a portable version and as a version that has to be installed on the system. It comes with a few example fleshcards that explain the principle of the learning software but the user will have to create his own flashcards after looking at the examples. There is unfortunately no dictionary included for common languages.

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Creating new flash cards requires some work and it is probably a good idea if additional users would join in and create flash cards for the language or subject that they are learning.

The learning software can test the user and records the history of the results. The tests are highly flexible. The user can select the order, the type of test (multi-choice, basic, puzzle and many more), select the error training interval and set error correction (for example that case does not matter in the answer). Some other interesting features of Teach 2000 are:

  • Multi-line questions and answers.
  • Phonetic symbols.
  • Unicode enabled.
  • Print flash cards, tests and crib notes.

Teach 2000 is a very nice learning software which requires some work in the beginning but provides a good range of tests and options for the learning student.

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