[sword-devel] Dynamic automated translation of commentary or dictionary resources via Cloud service

[Michael Johnson]

I have friends in places where Internet is expensive and intermittent. 
One way to improve your idea would be to at least make a local cache of 
whatever the user has accessed so that if the same dictionary entry or 
commentary section is accessed again, it comes from the local cache. Of 
course, better yet is to have the resources pretranslated in total and 
downloaded all at once (like when in town) and then accessed offline 
(like when back out in their villages in the jungle).

On 4/24/26 21:07, contact at tklein.info wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> So I've had this idea to use Google Cloud Translation API to 
> dynamically translate texts from commentary or dictionary entries into 
> the currently chosen user interface language.
>
> I implemented a prototype and it works.
>
> Of course this is not something that would be enabled by default and 
> people who like to be offline should not use such a feature.
>
> However, for people who don't mind the use of internet bandwidth ... 
> it could be quite useful, expanding the available resources in ones 
> native language dramatically.
>
> See an example screenshot of Ezra's commentary panel (on desktop) here 
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IUXfnGutD2TnOQS9xLUj2js6f0-T-0EI/view?usp=drive_link>, 
> in this case with auto-translated entries for Acts 15:39 in German.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
>
>
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