LinguaLibre:Apps

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This page is a work in progress.

Wiktionaries (multiple)

• meta:User:Lingua Libre Bot on: fr, pl, oc, or, shy, wikidata

Lingua Libre SignIt extension (French to LSF)

• Description: A web browser extension to translate (French) words into (French) Sign Language videos, see Lingua Libre/SignIt.
  • Linguistic community: video authors.
  • Languages: French Sign Language ; User interface in most macro languages
  • Year: 2019
• Technology: cross-browser web extension.
  • Code: HTML/CSS/JS
  • Data: videos of words being hand signed.
  • Data sources: videos from Commons and Lingualibre, data from Wiktionaries ..
  • Repository: https://github.com/lingua-libre/SignIt
  • Developer model: single web developer (needs more)
  • License: MIT License.
• Contact:
  • Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
  • Institution: wikimedia France
  • Website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lingua-libre-signit/

Cat Is Smart (Chinese)

• Description: A multimedia, bilingual Chinese-English dictionary and adaptative learning system to learn Chinese.
  • Linguistic community: author.
  • Languages: Chinese.
  • Year: 2015
• Technology: responsive web application.
  • Code: JS
  • Data: Chinese audio / Chinese word / pinyin / (pos) English .
  • Data sources: audio from Lingualibre, lexicographical data from hsk sources.
  • Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/Cat-is-smart
  • Developer model: single author,l
  • License: MIT License.
• Contact:
  • Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
  • Institution:
  • Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/Cat-is-smart/html/search.html

ChinoisSansFrontière.tw (Chinese)

• Description: A multimedia, bilingual Chinese-French manual to learn traditional Chinese.
  • Linguistic community: author.
  • Languages: Chinese, French.
  • Year: 2021
• Technology: responsive web application.
  • Code: JS
  • Data: Chinese texts, sentences, words, their pinyin, audio pronunciation and French.
  • Data sources: audio from Lingualibre, lexicographical data from author (Hugo Lopez).
  • Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/csf
  • Developer model: single author.
  • License: Copyrighted.
• Contact:
  • Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
  • Institution: Lyon 3 University.
  • Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/csf

OpenEdx-hanzi (Chinese)

OpenEdXHanzi, an interactive Chinese dictionary and writing exercise using Lingua Libre recordings. Coded in HTML/CSS/JS by Yug and under open source (MIT license). Github, Online Web App.
Interface and use
➊ Lexical information: click the sinogram for the correct order and audio; pinyin pronunciation, definition, composition, etymology; sharing links.
➋ Writing pad: white area for practicing writing, an error will be followed by the correct suggestion.
➌ Writing/Audio: click to play correct writing order and audio.
➍ Audio: click to play audio.
➎ Erase: click to erase the writing pad.
➏ Colored sinograms: your level of mastery of a sinogram is saved in your browser.
- red: uncontrolled writing,
- green: controlled writing.

• Description: A multimedia, bilingual Chinese-French application to learn how to write the most common Chinese characters.
  • Linguistic community: Hugo Lopez.
  • Languages: Chinese, French.
  • Year: 2018
• Technology: responsive application.
  • Code: JS
  • Data: Chinese audio / Chinese word / pinyin / (pos) English .
  • Data sources: audio from Lingualibre.
  • Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/OpenEdX-hanzi
  • Developer model: single author, initially paid, volunteer maintenance.
  • License: MIT License.
• Contact:
  • Coordination: Hugo Lopez (github)
  • Institution: Paris University, Learning Planet Institute.
  • Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/OpenEdx-hanzi/
  • Explainer: https://codepen.io/hugolpz/pen/QYrGKB

AlphaTiles (multiple)

• Description: A flashcards, images based mobile application to study words of various minority languages
  • Linguistic community: mostly Americas.
  • Languages: various.
  • Year: ?
• Technology: mobile application.
  • Code: JAVA
  • Data: L1 word, L1 image, L2 word, L2 audio.
  • Repository: https://github.com/AlphaTiles
  • Developer model: core team (90%), open source contributors (<10%).
  • License: MIT License, SIL authorship.
• Contact:
  • Coordination: Aaron Hemphill (github)
  • Institution: Summer Institute of Linguistic (SIL) is the world leader in minority language's linguistic and lexicography.
  • Website: http://alphatilesapps.org

Anki plugin

• Webpage: Ankiweb > Lingua Libre and Forvo Addon
• Github : https://github.com/rkosov/Lingua-Libre-and-Forvo-Audio-Downloader
• Announcement: Anki Extension Release
• Author: Languageseeker

Paires Minimales

A website for browsing minimal pairs in French, based on the French Wiktionary and Lingua Libre pronunciations (via Commons' API).
https://pairesminimales.herokuapp.com/

Ladino translation and text-to-speech

Not using Lingualibre, but a vivid example of what we could do: machine learning-based text-to-speech.

• https://sefarad.com.tr/en/translator/

GoldenDict

• Description: A free and open-source multimedia dictionary program that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages.
  • Linguistic community: FOSS.
  • Languages: many, see https://cloud.freemdict.com/index.php/s/pgKcDcbSDTCzXCs , http://download.huzheng.org/babylon/bidirectional/
  • Year: 2010–present
• Technology:
  • Code: C++
  • Data type: L1 word and L1 definition ; L1 and L2 translations ; audios.
  • Data sources: lexicographical data from various FOSS ; audio from Forvo, Lingualibre.
  • Repository: https://github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendict (active)
  • Developer model: collaborative, active.
  • License: GNU GPLv3+
• Contact:
  • Coordination: Xiao Yifang (github). Note: former project by Konstantin Isakov (github) now inactive.
  • Institution:
  • Website: https://goldendict.org (old)
• Install: releases for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Note: The former project is inactive since 2019.

VueJS records checker

VueJS recordings checker.

• Description: Demonstrator of a Lingualibre interface to check audio's quality.
  • Linguistic community: n.a.
  • Languages: catalan (sample demo).
  • Year: 2021.
• Technology:
  • Code: JS, VueJS
  • Data type: L1 word ; audios.
  • Data sources: Lingualibre.
  • Repository: https://github.com/TL-digitalcampus-g3/interface-lingua-libre (inactive)
  • Developer model: one shot demo.
  • License: Not specified.
• Contact:
  • Coordination: ?
  • Institution: Toulouse Digital Campus
  • Website: https://interface-lingua-libre-dusky.vercel.app or http://projet.tekmedias.com/lingua-libre/
• Install: n.a. (web app).

Yomitan web extension

Following User:Bicolino34's idea and github ticket, then a week of collaborative discussions and coding (User:Yug), #LinguaLibre audio resources are getting integrated into the popular web extension dictionary #Yomitan. Yomitan is an rich, extensive dictionary used by 20,000+ Chrome and Firefox users. It also has #Anki integration. cc @Wikimedia_Fr

• Description: Click-to-translate web extension.
  • Linguistic community: n.a.
  • Languages: Japanese-English (default). More pairs available after install.
  • Year: 2024+
• Technology:
  • Code: JS, Web extension API
  • Data type: L1 word ; audios.
  • Data sources: Lingualibre.
  • Repository: https://github.com/themoeway/yomitan/ (very active)
  • Developer model: open source, community lead, very active.
  • License: ?
• Contact:
  • Coordination: ?
  • Institution: ?
  • Website: ?
• Install: via your browser's store
  • Chrome store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/yomitan/likgccmbimhjbgkjambclfkhldnlhbnn
  • Firefox store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yomitan/

Names of the Land interactive map

Following recording of toponyms in endangered whistled Occitan, User:Yug and {2nd engineer} pushed toward this extreme field linguistic interactive map. This interactive map leverages and combines several notorious collaborative open content projects, namely: OSM, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Lingualibre. Thank to URFIST Occitanie for supporting this project and c:User:Univòc64 for leading the 1,000s recordings.

2024 Shiular d'Aas exhibition with the interactive map visible, Anglet, France.

• Description: Interactive map hosted on Github page, which can therefore be embedded into 3rd party websites. Easy to hack to other languages.
  • Linguistic community: Occitan, Whistled Occitan.
  • Languages: neutral (nearly no labels).
  • Year: 2024
• Technology:
  • Code: basic JS, VueJS, leaflet.js, github.
  • Data type: L1 word ; geocoordinates ; audios.
  • Data sources: Wikidata (toponyms labels and geocoordinates), Lingualibre (audio recording), Wikimedia Commons (audio files)
  • Repository: https://github.com/hugolpz/NamesOfTheLand/
  • Developer model: open source, one week coding sprint
  • License: MIT
• Contact: user:Yug
  • Coordination: user:Yug
  • Institution: URFIST Occitanie, SICD Toulouse, Université de Toulouse ; Association Siular d'Aas (Philippe Biu)
  • Website: https://hugolpz.github.io/NamesOfTheLand/
• Install:
  • for default language → use iframe
  • to adapt to your language → replicate recording protocol, fork repository, hack the JS code (very easy).

Other projects

• Tatoeba.org — Written sentences
• Ntealan.org — African languages.

See also

• Lingualibre:Resources
• Lingualibre:Tools
• Lingualibre:Mailing
• LinguaLibre:Citations