Tobias
March 4, 2020, 9:19pm
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Wouldn’t it be nice to have a powerful translator function in the discourse forum? As a robotic community this should be feasible.
Lower the entry hurdle
Writing fast and more complex sentences for non native English speaking people.
The bot could also be used to cross check when writing new posts in a foreign language. In this way you can train other languages for you and maybe an AI ;).
Maybe this could be a good start:
Contribute translations The first step is to do some translating in our Crowdin workspace. Create an account and start translating in one or more languages. See Contribute a translation to Discourse for more information about that. Add language...
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tfoote
March 4, 2020, 9:56pm
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I moved this to the Site Feedback category.
Discourse has a translator plugin.
:discourse2: Summary Discourse Translator translates posts on Discourse using Microsoft, Google, or Yandex translation APIs. 🛠 Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-translator 📖 Install Guide How to install plugins in...
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It has support for both Microsoft and Google translations and I’m sure that it could be extended to leverage Deeply you mentioned in the thread Request for creation of a German (speaking) ROS User Group - #15 by Tobias - Site Feedback - Open Robotics Discourse
However it’s not included in our hosting package so we can’t turn it on.
Tobias
March 4, 2020, 10:22pm
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A DeepL based translation would perfect but the API was closed for free usage.
All the OS project based on DeepL API also seam to be dead. A shame.