hi, \n\ni've recently had a great idea to develop a website \n\ni live in a small country in europe and we have our own language, and the internet is really being used by everyone today, i noticed that there are many dictionaries for english,french and many other main languages onine, however for my native language there is no dictionary, now i am sure that many people would start using this dictionary in my country if i managed to program one however i have some basic knowledge of html, any ideas how i can develop it? \n\ni managed to get hold of an electronic copy of a dictionary where i have in the first row the word in our native language and in the second row the corresponding word in english, it would be great if i could manage to make a search box and then manage to load the results! \n\nany help please?!
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I get the gist of your idea.\nAssupmtion: Since you have an electronic copy of the dictionary I assume that it's in binary form ie.(Dict.exe or Dict.DLL)\nAnother assumption: You have the source code which you can modified.\nTry: Doing a port of the dictionary. \n1) Adding functionality (Assume 'html') create a search input by using Search box\n<form action="yourpath/lang.CGI" method='get'>\n<input type='text' name='Lang' />\n<input type='submit'>\n</form>\n2) Let someone access the result from your server using Common Gateway Interface or JavaScript <!-- lang.CGI access Dict.exe-->\n3) Display the result use (C or perl) to produce the out put results using textarea tag\nNote read up on CGI, Java, JavaScript, C and perl(most recommended).
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dictionary.com has a translator
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Did you buy the product?  Did the website help?  Did it cause your computer problems?   Could you read all of the text?   Did the pictures download correctly?   Did it download quickly?  Did you like the appearance?   Was it grammatically correct?  Is there follow up information about the product?  Are there going to be further product updates? \n\nGood luck
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Go to this site:\nhttp://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=dictionary&submitform=Search\nand click on Dictionary.com
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Often many of the sites that translate cannot recognize different meanings between words that are spelled the same.  I have tried translating things with various languages, but every time I have had someone who speaks fluently check what the website gave me.  Every time there have been so many mistakes that I finally realized it is easier to find a real person to translate my material.
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Why would you need it? People with disabilities would use a screen reader so they wouldn't need you to do it for them, you could design your webpage to be more screen reader friendly by adding tags and attributes that defines how the sound should be like, how the paragraph/table is read, what should and shouldn't be read, etc. \n\nIf you want to implement a pronunciation helper, like online dictionaries, just use a prerecorded sound. Embedding a prerecorded sound is easy.\n\nThe actual answer to your question is You can't. If they want their text to be read, they'll have to use a screen reader, you can't implement a screen reader software to webpages.
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Try making up your own word or go to http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/ or try http://www.merriam-webster.com/\n\nGood luck.
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http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~kmach/hnd_la-e.htm#new_version\n\nhttp://www.shabdkosh.com/\n\nhttp://www.wordanywhere.com/\n\nIf you cannot spell it right, it will not work. Maybe post it and someone can help you out.
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You can either just open the web page as a file and search for text. (Risky)\n\nOr, you can use an HTML parser.  See link for an example.  You may want to search for others yourself.
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Nick, the way you have explained your question is confusing to us English speakers! Can you ask someone to translate it, because I think your idea is going to be a good one!
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http://babelfish.altavista.com/\ntry this site, it is a free translation tool.\nJust be sure that your english words are used in a fairly literal way, that you do not refer to yourself unless you are male(I want, etc as it will be gender specific), and that you translate it back into english afterwards to make sure something was not lost or skewed in translation.
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They can but they have to be structured like this:\n\n<head>\n.\n.\n<-- For speakers of British English -->\n<META name="keywords" lang="en" content="cat,cow,pig">\n<-- For speakers of French -->\n<META name="keywords" lang="fr"content="chat,vache,porc">\n.\n.\n</head>\n\nYou might ask your client why they would want to do this given that all the major search engines ignore the meta tags. Also why do they have two languages on one page instead of two pages with one language each?
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You could use Google´s... On the right hand side of where you type in your question or search keywords, there is a link titled Language tools... You can type everything into it both ways and in many other languages as well... I use it now in Brazil when I do not know how to say something in Portuguese. Happy translating!
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Ummm... Probably not going to happen that way.  If you have some time, but not enough to go to school, then it *MIGHT* be appropriate to try and learn a bit of web based languages yourself.  If you'd like to try, then here is a page with many good resources and tools for free.
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If it's for school, forget it.  There is no such thing as a free Latin/Greek translator.  There are too many things in Latin and Greek where you have to know things like the sex of the subject, how many there are, stuff like that that usually just doesn't matter in English.  If it's just words you're trying to translate, then I suggest just dictionary.com  It'll show you what Latin or Greek word something comes from (though remember, most of English is actually derived from German).
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Have projects in VB.NET become obsolete?\n\nJust reading books can help improve grammar. Or you can just go to the thrift shop and pick up an old English book. As a general rule of thumb, if it sounds wrong it is. But with all the slang we use today, thats not always correct. I dont know of any websites to help you.
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You must include a hyperlink.  Not all boards will support it.\n\nGo to the website and copy the URL (universal resource langage) link ... it's that thing that starts with http://....\n\nTry pasting it in or typing it in ... make sure you type absolutely correctly though (that's why cutting and pasting works pretty well).