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caarmen / poet-assistant

Android app with rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and dictionary, with text-to-speech functionality to read your poem.
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[Feature Request] add multilanguage support #173

Open Megver83 opened 4 years ago

Megver83 commented 4 years ago

The app currently supports English only, but it would be awesome to see more supported languages, like Spanish.

Idk if this app is still being developed, it seems that there hasn't been much activity since last year, but I hope this feature will be added one day.

caarmen commented 3 years ago

I looked at this quite some time ago: a couple of years ago.

The biggest challenge is finding existing dictionary data (rhymes, thesaurus, definitions), that meet the following criteria:

For Spanish, it may be possible to use an algorithm based on spelling, for the rhymes (unlike English).

But for the thesaurus and definitions, I didn't find any dictionary data that satisfied the above criteria. I believe I looked a bit at Wiktionary, but it was not possible to extract the data and convert it.