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Hesham_h4 18-Jul-11 12:52pm View

I think I'm asking them, and if they answer me (5% probability) I'll mark this as the solution :).
Funny fact is that I asked that question at Microsoft forums, forgot that Bing would be using it if they knew :)
About your approach, I think that detecting the input language isn't a big deal if we talk about a .NET application and so the spell check would be just appropriate, "transkeying" as I called it is still the big problem here. We need to know what keys were pressed, let's assume we know because we are working upon user input not on a copy-past text, then we need to simulate each of these scripts to get a probable text (Remember that some characters can be entered in multiple ways) and then comes your method in place to detect which one is used and so narrow the language probabilities.

Hesham_h4 18-Jul-11 12:34pm View

I think this method is close to the one used in Google translate (Not accurate at all though), it detects the language from a text written in it, not a text written in a different language which is our topic here.

Hesham_h4 18-Jul-11 0:49am View

This is actually the answer to the Title questions though not answering the Main one but I decided to ask it separately.

Hesham_h4 17-Jul-11 23:53pm View

As a second thought this can be simplified if we consider installed languages only but as is it can help people use their language without installation, just type your language in any installed language and we will understand your input, that seems great.

Hesham_h4 17-Jul-11 23:50pm View

Knowing the input language might help finding out that the input isn't recognized as words in the selected input language and so trigger the whole process. I think you found the trigger, but we still don't have a gun :)

Hesham_h4 17-Jul-11 23:43pm View

The thing we are trying to achieve here is much more different than what I was trying to do. I don't know for sure that the user is going to use a specific language to warn him about a wrong one, I could have used a character set for that. I'm intending to search the word list of every language upon user input to tell what language the user might be typing without it necessarily selected.
That requires:
1. Keyboard layout.
2. Keycode + Shift, Alt and Ctrl state.
3. Making an assumption out of this input for every known language.
4. Comparing these assumptions to word lists and detecting at which language this input may mean something. Google has super systems so I'm NOT expecting this to be done in a flash on an ordinary or even gaming computer. It's just interesting to do it.
Check the picture again please, I was typing English while the keyboard is switched to Arabic and it was detected to be English and automatically translated, same thing happens if you write Arabic with the keyboard set to Spanish, if you know what I mean!

Hesham_h4 9-Jul-11 19:14pm View

Thanks for replying, what I mainly try to do here is to get text in a specified language from text typed in another language.
What I came up with is to convert that text (Given the language/keyboard layout) to a keycode array (Including shift state) then do what I'm trying to do here.
For example if we have the text "فاهس هس ُىلمهسا" that's in Arabic(101), I want to predict the text written in English (Assuming that the user forgot to switch language) which is "this is English".

Of course if there's another way to do that I'd love to know.

P.S: Google is already using such a method in the search bar.
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Hesham_h4 8-Jun-10 19:24pm View

Do you mean that this value presents the index of the frame that the sub will show/hide at?
If so then I think that I will need the video itself to read the file but a program like Jet Audio is able to preview the subtitle with time even without the record how come then!

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