NOTICE Oversetter is no longer maintained. I may do bug fixes if requested but honestly I prefer my @drawnepicenter account and Oversetter's successor Toloko. So long (for now) Ruby, hello Node.js and other languages/platforms.
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Oversetter is a text translation tool for the command line. It supports dozens of source and target languages. It requires a terminal emulator that supports UTF-8 encoding; I prefer Terminator. Oversetter is best used for translating short snippets of text the length of a sentence. A list of ISO 639-1 and 639-2 language codes can be helpful in setting the source and target languages.
Oversetter is Norwegian for 'translator'.
As Oversetter does have some limitations, these resources may be of some use to you:
- Google Translate is not perfect, but it does perform translation & transliteration in realtime (as you type). It even provides sound clips (some pre-recorded, some synthesized).
- Omniglot is an amazing resource for learning about languages, writing systems, and related topics. I thought about developing an interface for it in Oversetter, but it would be way too much work. Instead, we should all use Omniglot in its natural form.
- translit.cc Translation & transliteration services w/ virtual keyboards for Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Greek, Russian, and Ukranian, plus other useful tools like spell-checking.
- romaji.me Transliterate between Japanese text (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana) and English.
Oversetter was designed with POSIX systems in mind, though it should work on Windows with something like ansicon. Ruby 2.0 supposedly added support for ANSI on Windows. Because it supports multiple adapters, it should run on most Ruby implementations.
Oversetter is tested on the following Ruby versions:
- MRI 1.9.3
- MRI 2.1.4
Rubinius 2.2.10
Search Yandex, Hablaa, and Glosbe from the command line. As Oversetter defaults are the same as Lyracyst defaults, see Lyracyst's page on Defaults for more info. Remember, the config file in ~/.oversetter.yml can be used to override the defaults. Get a Yandex API key as follows:
Put it in an environment variable YANDEX. Add it to .bashrc, .zshrc, Windows env, etc. This allows TravisCI to be used for continuous integration.
- Extensible
- JSON/XML parsing
- JSON/XML export
- Translations and detections from yandex.com
- Translations, examples, and similar translations from hablaa.com
- Translations and examples from glosbe.com
- Supports multiple HTTP clients with httpi
- Supports multiple JSON parsers with multi_json
- Supports multiple XML parsers with multi_xml
- Input source text from STDIN
- Translations from iTranslate4
- Translations from Frengly
Please refer to the CLI documentation for all commands, options and defaults.
gem install oversetter
oversetter gl tr --src=eng --tar=spa hello
oversetter ha tr --src=eng --tar=spa hello
oversetter ya tr --lang=en-es hello
oversetter --help
oversetter help [command] [subcommand]
When I was developing Lyracyst, which is mainly for English, I wanted a similar tool for translation and transliteration. Oversetter is the result.
Oversetter uses Aruba and Spinach to test commandline features. To test, just run:
spinach
bundle install
rake -T
rake oversetter:yatr[hello]
Here’s how we suggest you go about proposing a change to this project:
- Fork this project to your account.
- Create a branch for the change you intend to make.
- Make your changes to your fork.
- Send a pull request from your fork’s branch to our
masterbranch.
Using the web-based interface to make changes is fine too, and will help you by automatically forking the project and prompting to send a pull request too.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 Drew Prentice
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Many thanks to all contributors to the gems used in this project! And thanks to the creators and maintainers of the APIs that this tool consumes. Glosbe, Hablaa and Yandex are awesome!
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