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On 13/03/13 02:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Lars Aronsson, 13/03/2013 02:01:
[...] Provide a tool on the toolserver, or any other server, having a simple link syntax that specifies the language code and the text, e.g. http://toolserver.org/mytool.php?lang=fr&text=gouter [...]
Why should it be a web service at all? Hardest part is probably communicating with audio drivers of your machine? I recently asked one such tool at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/64143/ and I was pointed to http://croak.it/ ; I didn't try it and I don't know if it's something one could build upon, but surely it's not a complete solution for us, lacking upload in particular.
Nemo
The benefit of a web app/service is the extremely low hurdle for users to become contributors (the original reason for wikipedia, remember.)
jQuery has a range of modules for simplifying uploads, but presumably it would be better as an api call[1].
A simple search on programmableweb.com finds a rather large range of tools which might be mashed into this project, including transcription (though I did not see an IPA transcription). There is a related project[3] found through pw which connects words to video of contextual use and pronunciation (en-only, I think.)
Amgine
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Upload [2] http://www.programmableweb.com/search/audio [3] https://www.embedplus.com/dictionary/how-to-pronounce-words-and-use-them.asp...