WUaS Universal Translator



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Multilingual University & School

where anyone can teach or take a class or course


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Ideas
In what ways can upcoming virtual Harbin (in ScienceSim, or in OpenSim?) be designed to help develop translation of both IMAGES and, for example, OPERA, INTERACTIVELY, opera-wise and image-wise, for WUaS's universal translator (in 3,000-8,000 languages)? (Google Translate is in 58 languages, for example). (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/12/pinus-sylvestris-scots-language-whats.html)

To start a new language (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) - for a Language Template - use this Subject Template: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE



is wondering in what ways to focus the development of the WUaS Universal Translator, building on, yet different from Google Translate and SugarLabs Translate, probably in terms of context or contextualization of languages and each language (as well as images), that could then dovetail a decade ahead with Google Translate, etc. ... WUaS Universal Translator: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator ...

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Select Blogs
Ethnoblog. 2013. Ethnoblog. (The Ethnoblog is a place where the Ethnologue Editor and others talk about language in general, items in the news regarding language and languages, and developments, products, and projects being worked on by the Ethnologue staff (and others). Dallas, TX: www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog.

The Official Google translate blog. 2013. The Official Google translate blog. Mountain View, CA: googletranslate.blogspot.com.

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Books
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. (The Ethnologue is a list of 7,105 known living languages, as a main basis for WUaS Languages and Universal Translator). Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's 'You at World University' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University).

Select Databases
Open Mind Common Sense. 2012. Open Mind Common Sense. Cambridge, MA: MIT Media Lab.

Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Museums
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).

Select Programs, Applications, Languages, Software
Google Translate. 2011. http://translate.google.com/# (with its at least 58 languages - may become the basis for a WUaS Universal Translator, for both translation and academic research).

Sugar Labs: Translation System. 2011. Sugar Labs: Translation System. (This is the translation server for Sugarlabs. Information on how to use this server can be found in the Translation Team page in the SugarLabs wiki. This server uses Pootle, a free and open source software to enable volunteers to easily translate software into their own languages). Cambridge, MA: Sugar Labs.

Select References
App Smart Extra: Translation Apps. 2012. App Smart Extra: Translation Apps. July 27. New York, NY: gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com.

Boss, Suzie. 2012. Accessible Images: An open source web application draws on the wisdom of the crowds to give the blind access to images. Fall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

Crotty, James Marshall. 2012. Amara's Wiki-Style Translation Platform Enables Global Growth Of Education Startups. New York, NY: Forbes Magazine.

The Endangered Languages Project. 2012. The Endangered Languages Project: Supporting language preservation through technology and collaboration. googleblog.blogspot.com.

Green, Cable. 2012. World OER Map: Will You Help Build It?. November 9th. San Francisco, CA: creativecommons.org.

HELFT, MIGUEL. 2009. Amid Iran Turmoil, Google Adds Persian to Translation Service. June 19. New York, NY: bits.blogs.nytimes.com.

HELFT, MIGUEL. 2010. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/technology/09translate.html Google’s Computing Power Refines Translation Tool]. March 8. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Kugel, Seth. 2013. [http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/lost-in-translation-try-a-google-app/ Lost in Translation? Try a Google App]. February 13. New York, NY: frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com.

MacLeod, Scott. 2014. [http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/05/american-badger-wikidata-world.html American Badger: Wikidata / World University and School collaboration possibilities ... Structure of Wikidata from which WUaS might develop an Universal Translator?, in what 2 ways, for example, In broad strokes, could someone write an application based on Wikidatas information structures, that would lead to comparative translators? Nascent Wikidata interlingual projects engaging MIT OCW's translated courses (or STEM-centric OER courses)?, Looks like Wiktionary and MediaWiki Content translation may provide another approach to a possible Universal Translator, as well ... ]. May 20. Canyon, CA: scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/05/american-badger-wikidata-world.html.

MacLeod, Scott. 2014. Oryx leucoryx: American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "Quakers" is 'thumb twiddling,' The ASL sign for "Atheist," Friendly-informed WUaS's plans to develop a universal translator - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - building on Google Translate, Where would NTFs like to head with Nontheistic Friends' thinking and representation in the translation process into multiple languages of the words "Nontheistic Friends". June 5. scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/06/oryx-leucoryx-american-sign-language.html.

Mauser, Arne. 2013. Google Translate now supports Khmer. April 18. Mountain View, CA: googletranslate.blogspot.com.

Nuwer, Rachel. 2012. Beluga Whale Learns to Speak Like a Human: Beluga whales can vocalize in a way remarkably close to human speech, according to new observations. October 23. smithsonianmag.com.

Sarhadi, Atefeh. 2012. [http://www.academia.edu/2285175/Ver.2_of_OP_Old_Persian_Fonts_Unicode_and_Ultra-Unicode._Linking_standard_OP_transliteration_to_the_original_OP_text Ver.2 of OP (Old Persian) Fonts: Unicode & Ultra-Unicode. Linking standard OP transliteration to the original OP text]. San Francisco, CA: academia.edu.

Sookmyung Women's University’s SNOW Launches OCW Translations. 2012. Sookmyung Women's University’s SNOW Launches OCW Translations. ("SNOW joins Universia (Spanish, Portuguese), China Open Resources for Education (Simplified Chinese), Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (Traditional Chinese), Chulalongkorn University (Thai), The Turkish Academy of Sciences (Turkish) and Shahid Beheshti University (Persian) as MIT OpenCourseWare translation affiliates. Together these organizations have created more than 1,000 translations of OCW courses. These translations have received more than 135 million visits to date, accounting for roughly 40% of worldwide access to MIT OpenCourseWare content."). Cambridge, MA: ocw.mit.edu.

redletterdave. 2012. Google Launches Endangered Languages Project. June 21. news.slashdot.org.

Van Grove, Jennifer. 2010. Google Adds Virtual Keyboards for Search in 35 Languages. April 29. Mashable.com.

Select Video and Audio
Clayton, Steve. 2012. Microsoft Research shows a promising new breakthrough in speech translation technology. Redmond, WA: blogs.technet.com

Giner, Pau. 2013. Translate UX design walkthrough Feb 2013. February 27. youtube.com.

Lazar, Jonathan. 2011. Preventing Societal Discrimination: Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2013. Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim. (Mentions Universal Translator in this talk). Monterey, CA: TED Talk.

Mandell, Charlotte. 2013. Charlotte Mandell reading at McNally Jackson Books in NYC. 9Charlotte Mandell reads from her translation of "Fait Accompli" from The Fata Morgana Books by Jonathan Littell at the Bridge Series at McNally Jackson Books in NYC). New York, NY: Jackson Books.

Parra, Juliana Rincón. 2011. Video: Learning a New Language Through Online Video. February 22. Global Voices Online.

Powell, Will. 2012. Project Glass: Translation...inspired - subtitles in glasses (English Spanish conversation). (nspired by google's project glass I put together an application that can provide translated subtitles in real time. It allows me and my sister Elizabeth to have a conversation when I speak English and she speaks Spanish). youtube.com.

Smith, Dave. 2012. Google Launches Endangered Languages Project To Preserve Global Speech, Culture (VIDEO). International Business Times.

Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!. 2009. Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!. (A "speaking piano" reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009). Venice, IT: Youtube.com.

TED Open Translation Project. 2011. The TED Open Translation Project. The TED Open Translation Project brings TEDTalks beyond the English-speaking world by offering subtitles, interactive transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. Monterey, CA: TED Talks.

Select Websites
Amara's Subtitles. 2012. Amara's Subtitles. (Amara's Universal Subtitles - Join Amara’s Global Volunteer Community! Amara is a non-profit and open-source project. We are working to make video accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing and for everyone who wants to watch a video in a language that we don’t speak. Help us translate and caption videos to make them accessible for everyone. blog.universalsubtitles.org/volunteer/

Duolingo. 2013. Duolingo: Free language education for the world. duolingo.com/.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2013. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Seventeenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.

MIT OpenCourseware. 2012. MIT OpenCourseware. Cambridge, MA: www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/MIT-OCW/

The Rosetta Project. 2010. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. Long Now Foundation.

Select Wikis
Translatewiki.net. 2012.. (Translatewiki.net is a localisation platform for translation communities, language communities, and free and open source projects). Translatewiki.net.

Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia
Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/

Wikiquotes
Wikiquotes: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikisource
Wikisource: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage: https://www.wikivoyage.org/

World University and School Links
Artificial Intelligence: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence

Computer Science: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Science

Foreign Languages and Literatures: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Foreign_Languages_and_Literatures

Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Linguistics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics

Programming: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Programming

United Nations: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/United_Nations

Voice and Computing: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Voice_and_Computing

Translators at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Translators_at_WUaS

WUaS Universal Translator: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator

Wiki: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki

Academic Press at World University and School
Academic Press at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School

Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
Ask a question in a specific discipline, or find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.

Admissions at World University and School
Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School

Flyer seeking degree-oriented, WUaS students: 'Quaker-informed World University & School seeks friendly, undergraduate students for free, online, Greatest Universities-centric, bachelor’s degrees to apply in the autumn of 2013, for matriculation in autumn 2014' - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSFriendsFlyerforProspectiveStudentApplicants.pdf - and accessible here, also - http://scottmacleod.com/WUaSNoticeArchive.html. WUaS holds open, electronically-mediated, hour-long, monthly business meeting on the second Saturdays at 9 am Pacific Time, in the manner of Quakers - email worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com if you'd like to participate.

Blog at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/

Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS

with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/.

Careers
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Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

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Counseling
Counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling

Coordinates
... in a virtual world

Credits
Many thanks to each of you!

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Digital To Do
Android

Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequency

Broadcast to TV

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/

Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit
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World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme (beginning with United Nations' languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, Spanish)

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
(Search on the word 'lists' here, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds)

3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Kaneva. 2014. http://www.kaneva.com/

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

SmallWorlds. 2014. https://www.smallworlds.com/

There.com. 2014. http://www.there.com/

Twinity. 2014. http://www.twinity.com/en/choose-your-free-avatar

Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/

WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/

World of Warcraft in School. 2014. http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Item Number
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Bar code

Learning Networking
Teach and Learn using free Social Networking software to share what courses, etc., you find edifying, what you enjoy learning ....

About Me - World University and School - http://about.me

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Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 ('This group may be archived').

Good Reads - http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/99021-worlduniversityandschool

Google + Profiles - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com - Scott MacLeod - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/

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Like

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World University & School 'subject page' group

World University & School Share This

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TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Free video conferencing

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin - http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/

Meeting Burner - http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=signup-v2 – up to 15 connection

ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/home.aspx

Paltalk - http://www.paltalk.com

sifonr - free communication - http://www.sifonr.com/‎

Tokbox | OpenTok - API - http://tokbox.com/opentok

Vyew - http://vyew.com/

Web Huddle - https://www.webhuddle.com/homepage.jsp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle/

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator

Google Translate language:

Sugar Labs: Translation System language:

Region:

The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School
The "Universitian" Newspaper at WUaS

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wikifoundry.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikidata / Bots
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots

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