Looking for a bash/sh script to translate a word with Internet (no package to install

david1941 · 08-10-2011, 12:50 PM

corp769:

Thanks for the script. I had to drop the +f2 out of line 55 to make it work on a F11 distro but that was easy.

corp769 · 08-10-2011, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by david1941

corp769:

Thanks for the script. I had to drop the +f2 out of line 55 to make it work on a F11 distro but that was easy.

Why did you have to? Look at the man page of espeak..... It should work, as I have Fedora 13 currently for the time being....

david1941 · 08-10-2011, 01:07 PM

corp769 I don't know why. I'm just kind of pragmatic and adjusted it out and it worked. F11 is EOL anyway.

Here's the error I got:

Code:

Downloading Packages:
espeak-1.40.02-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                                | 695 kB     00:11     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing     : espeak-1.40.02-2.fc11.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                    1/1 

Installed:
  espeak.x86_64 0:1.40.02-2.fc11                                                                                                                                                                                       

Complete!
[root@maplepark ~]# translate tomorrow EN ES

Original text: tomorrow
Converted text: mañana

Would you like the converted text spoken to you? [Yy/Nn]y
Failed to read voice 'ES+f2'

Wasn't a problem. the man said -f <text> so the code seemed OK. But just deleting it worked fine
Thanks again for the script.

corp769 · 08-10-2011, 01:14 PM

I know why it didn't work.... Because you entered ES, instead of es. For espeak, the parameters and options are case sensitive, whereas google don't care. Try using "es" and "en" instead, and the code I posted will work just fine.

david1941 · 08-10-2011, 02:40 PM

corp769

Sorry, I ran your script --languages first and entered the language codes as it said. It does work fine using lower case.

It might have helped better if it had shown lower case. I tried to insert a tr $3 unsuccessfully to insure lc but finally just changed the supported language section.

Thanks again,

MrCode · 08-10-2011, 02:52 PM

I'd like to note that some of the languages don't work for me: Armenian ("hy"), Georgian ("ka"), Azerbaijani ("az"), and Kannada ("kn") (and probably a few others; don't feel like going through all of them

) all return the "invalid language pair" error on Google's end.

I'd also like to note that espeak only has voices for probably about half-60% of the languages Google can translate to/from, so IMO it's a bad idea to build in the espeak call in the script. I think it would be more practical to just leave the script as a standalone translator and let the user pipe the output to espeak if it has an appropriate voice*.

(* - IOW, my original script is better )

MTK358 · 08-10-2011, 03:32 PM

How about specifying the input and output languages using options?

If you don't specify the input language, Google Translate can automatically detect it. If you don't specify the output language, it could check the environment variables to see the system's default language.

corp769 · 08-10-2011, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by MTK358

How about specifying the input and output languages using options?

If you don't specify the input language, Google Translate can automatically detect it. If you don't specify the output language, it could check the environment variables to see the system's default language.

I actually thought of something like that. I just wanted to do something simple though for now....