The power of organized translations

 Now that I have English, Swahili, Farsi, French and Spanish translated sentence by sentence for the entire book, I'm currently doing German sentence by sentence. Tomorrow or the next day, I'll add Italian and then after that, Portuguese. 

The thing is, now that I have these translations, I can do a lot of stuff differently. For instance, I've accomplished a few personalities in the application that has the personality form. The problem is, it's really difficult. First, I was taking the already translated languages and then literally separating sections for the personalities. Very laborious.

Now that I have full translations and the next 3 translations, I  have the capability of simplifying information related to each personality. That's because I have a direct connection between the text and the audio,  in every language.

What I'm going to do, is, instead of listening to audio and separating those audio sections, I can just pick the English database text and have a program that selects that information for those personalities and automatically use all the other 7 language translations. It simplifies everything. 

So  here's the way I'm going to do the personality form. I will create a program that allows me to easily select the sections or sentences that relate  to that personality and click the add to that personality and then it's done, right then and there. And it automatically adds all the other languages. Oh man!!!!

But that is only the beginning. Selecting personality information and allowing the user to select and hear the information on that personality is one thing but the Urantia Book is a wealth of  information of other stuff. 

For instance, I'm working on viewing the flow of races across a 3d world. That,  though, is  just a small part of the book. That's not done but it works for now. 

I'll create a front end program with word  search capability. I should be able to create, with more ease, say, the different  evolutionary journeys of  marine life, plant life, animal life and human life.

And more. The idea here is to  simplify viewing the book in ways that, heretofore, we're virtually really difficult to do.  These sentence to  sentence databases affords me a real, definitive way to look into the Urantia book. Stuff like physical, mental, spiritual, personal ways of viewing the book. Interconnections that are really incredible. 

Even using AI to ask questions of  the book has limitations,  while  viewing organized 3d or interconnected rectangles that jump to areas of the book and can be listened to. And above all, do it in all the languages that I've translated, automatically. Of course,  if other people who can't understand English should be able do the same thing in their own language. I believe I can make that happen.  That is, if anyone becomes interested in what I'm trying to accomplish.

Pierre

The races of Urantia.

 I've begun the migration of the all the races of  Urantia, on a 3d globe and in color. I'll do from the beginning 1,000,000 years ago to today. It will be a bit difficult and I will have to guess on a lot  of where they migrated and ended up.  

So, yeah. It may be a lot  of  guesswork and I will try to have labels that show what is guesswork and what is not. If I get comments from people, I can change stuff until it has a higher level of confidence.

Pierre

250,000 mp3s

The Urantia Book has 50921 sentences in the English language. So I've done about 50921 mp3s for each language, that's over 250,000 mp3s on my website waiting for someone to listen to the Urantia Book and learn a different language at the same time. Pretty nice.

There's French, the main reason I started this project, so I could relearn and practice my native language, and of course, English. Then Swahili, Farsi, done for friends of mine. Lastly, for the fifth language, Spanish,  since the Urantia Book is read in the Spanish language all over the world.

You can read some of these languages directly, as they are translated by people who've done the translations. So, what I've done doesn't replace their work as there's is, more accurate as the Google, Claude and ChapGpt translations just aren't as accurate as the human translations. 

My friend, who did the Farsi language, is redoing his translation. He finds that all the large translation system, I mentioned above, make mistakes and he listens to all 3 and they help him considerably.

Anyway, there it is. 5 languages,  done and ready to be listened to, sentence by sentence, until you understand both languages. I'm probably getting 95% of what is being said in French. So after, I've mastered all the vocabulary of the Urantia Book in French, I'm going to listen to the Spanish version until I understand that.

It's not all wine and roses. I noticed a problem with the Swahili version. On titles that are uppercase, the mp3s spell out the words character by character. So I'll come back later when I do an update to the program, I'll add a routine that runs through the book and retranslates just the titles that have this problem. It's minor for now though, so it can wait. It doesn't stop the user from listening as it only occurs at the start of the paper and only on the title. 

On the next version, I'll have the dropdowns change to their language so the form is in their language but for now, I'm going back to my 3d program. Also, I'm over 300.00 for these translations, so I'm going to wait till probably next month where I can absorb the cost and add more tranlations. It's over 50.00 for each translation and mp3 creation, actually, a pretty good deal for the ability to do this.

Pierre

Making Progress

 I've made a lot of changes. The system can be used to learn a language in English, French, Swahili, Farsi and soon today or tomorrow, Spanish. Next is German, then Portuguese and later, Chinese etc. 

I've added a few things that help  me a lot. Resuming where I left  off, starting randomly somewhere in the book. The Help system is getting pretty good. Visitors can leave their email and name and I hide that list from prying eyes. 

All the languages are spelled out. Instead of fr,  I  show French. I have the title of the papers now able to be selected instead of just paper numbers. You can now select a word and it'll show the 2nd language word. That's not perfectly accurate but it does work properly most of the time. I could of numbered every word and have the translator work through word by word translation but I would have to retranslate everything. Instead of 50.00,  it would be 100.00 for each translation. Maybe later. As of this writing it's pretty accurate.

Also, the translations aren't perfect. A friend of mine, who translated the Farsi translation told me that he is redoing his Farsi translation and is using all 3 translators, Google, Chat Gpt and Claude. He finds imperfections in all but they are very helpful in his current re-translation. Pretty cool.  He agreed, it isn't as significant that it be perfect or as good as a human translator as long as it works as a learning platform. He agrees and thought the program was impressive. Nice. Thanks guy.

Anyway, I think after the Spanish translation is done, I'm going to go back to my automation program, at https://halcreator.com/, for a while.

Pierre

its working on paper 1

 So my first test of being able to learn a language by playing sentence to sentence is working.

https://urantiaworld.com/Book%20Separated%20by%20sentence/index.php

Pierre

16 hours for text translation of Urantia Book

 So I'm currently using Google's translator to translate the english text sentences to french text for the whole book. I've separated the English into sentences already. That took a couple of minutes to take the English text and create the sentences for the whole book and place them into a sqlite database, organized with their paper,  section, subject indexing. Now converting the English sentences to French text will take 16 hours. 

The interesting thing about the Urantia book is that the translations are mostly sentence to sentence but If I was to make this work, I had to do the translations my self so that I could make sure the text would synchronize properly. I can't imagine that the translations will be perfect but at this stage, today's translations come close to being accurate so I'm going to do my own translations.

I have to wait today for another 14 hours before the English text to French text is done. Then I'll start the text to speech conversion of the English and French text to mp3s. 

It'll cost me about 30.00 to do the mp3 translations. Not bad. I believe I'll do the Spanish translation next. Unless someone wants theirs done. There are so many languages and I believe this is the best way. Senteece to sentence. I can manipulate the body of work pretty easily.

 I'm pretty sure I'll be making a separate Javascript program for this so that I can run this off the internet from anywhere. If  they download a  paper, I will have  a problem with running locally. I'm not sure how I'll handle that. I'll deal with that later. Maybe I can use a python program that will  run on any machine. Dont know. T

here is though a way to run a Javascript program locally but I have no idea how to do that. I do use Xampp but that is  a whole level of installation I don't want the user deal with.

Pierre

first stage working on full Urantia Translations based on sentence

I'm putting the program  that reads the papers in 5 languages for particular personalities of the Urantia book in a paused state. I've temporarily shifted to a more powerful platform that will help me learn languages while listening to  the Urantia book.

Soon, you'll be able to read the Urantia book in several languages a sentence at a time as it alternates between the 2 languages chosen.

The program that creates separate sentences of every paper in the Urantia book is working, currently in English and French. The sentences are stored in a sqlite database that holds the actual sentences in text form. 

Today, I'm creating the sound files (mp3 based sound) that will be used so that a person can listen to a sentence in one language and then hear that sentence in a different language. 

Yeah, those translations aren't perfect but they are good enough for someone to understand the Urantia book and be able to learn a different language at the same time, one sentence at a time. I'm doing this, partly,  for my own language learning and giving it to anyone that wants to use it. I need to relearn my french  language, which I was raised in till I was 13 in Quebec. 

I've been listening to entire sections within papers but that's not good enough. I want to hear both languages by hearing one sentence and then another.

I'm going translate up to 155 languages from the original text of the Urantia book. It'll be a bit costly as I'm using Google's translate and text to speech system.

Anyway, I have a database that has English and French text separated by sentence and synchronized to each other. So time to create singular mp3 files  for  each sentence. At first, I'll place this on my website, in zip files, then, if traffic gets too large, I'll give the user the capability to download a paper into their own computer.

I lost my little finger ring media controller. No matter, I wasn't ready anyway. If  i don't understand a sentence's language, I'll be able to click back on the device and reread the 2 language sentences.

Nothing but fun.

Pierre