New audio files are completed for Korea and Indonesian

So there's 16,000 sentences across all 15 languages that need a new mp3 sound file. It's now done with the creation of those and all mp3 files locally have been changed. It's now in the process of uploading those 16,000 mp3 files to my website. So it should be available now.

So you shouldn't hear any characters be read one character at a time, which happened, usually at the beginning of the paper and section. Although, there we're quite a few normal sentences that had words in the text that were all in uppercase. Fixed those too.

Eventually, we should be good. Although, it's really not that big of a deal, as you could still understand the word in the translated language. And that's the whole idea behind the translations anyway.

Pierre

Mp3 audio translation Problems

 It's a strange problem but everywhere in the Urantia book that has uppercase, the Google text to speech system spells out the characters instead of converting them to a spoken word.

So now, I'm going to go through all the translations again, in all 15 languages, and recreating all those sentences that have all uppercase character of those words. That means going through all those languages again, but that should be easy to do with Anthropic's AI system. Just a matter of money. Considering, it cost me 150.00 per translation, at least, it will be only the sentences that have uppercase in them that need translating. So that should be a lot more reasonable. So 150.00 x 15 = 2250.00. I'm guessing that it should be less than 125.00 for all 15 translations. 

From now on I'll have the text lowercased when I get Google to do the translations, even though Google says it has fixed the problem.

Pierre

lots of changes

 I've done many changes today. 

The 3d globe on the races spreading across the planet is now on a flat map, that makes more sense. You can see the changes everywhere on the globe map. It also can zoom and scroll.

The personalities form is more readable and I've remove the 3d part and expanded the  right hand panel.

I've installed buttons for  each of the trip to Paradise architectural spheres.

Also added button for personalities form.

And many small  changes throughout that make more sense.

Pierre

topics

 I've started on the topics of  the book. I'm not  happy with the results. I'll have to work on these as the topic stuff of the foundation and fellowship are really well put together.

It's currently more of a search with words rather than a topic related piece  of work. That'll change.

Pierre

language fixes

 so most of the site is automatically translated into the currently selected language. Some of the 3d stuff is still in English and that will  have to be handled differently than what I'm currently doing. Maybe some kind of way the 3d environment uses text from the object as it was part of the system I used to create the 3d  stuff. 

I'm thinking of changes in the six sangkik race color flows on the globe and putting that into a regular map that can be zoomed in. That way, the user doesn't have to spin the globe to see what is happening everywhere. 

It's a process of evolution. There are so many things that can't be known until I've played  with the system some. I really like that the trip to Paradise is mostly in the currently selected language. That was my first system I created and I did it all in English. Some stuff is missing but that'll have to wait for a later time. It works as is.

Pierre

Languages, Paradise and topics

The webpages and the trip to Paradise are all in 15 languages. There are a few problems but generally it's working.

Im not quite ready to advertise but the system is getting closer. By advertising, I believe the first steps is to make youtube videos of all the urantiaworld.com capabilities.

So the next venture is topics. AI seems really capable of organizing the topics of the Urantia book in a way of finding what youre looking for in an organized way. That is, quick entries of any topic and then the capability to listen to the Urantia book in all 15 languages. And capable of doing it in 15 languages.

The learn a language feature really works well for me. Ive been picking up my French. Sentence alternating between any of the 15 languages is really nice. It really works. I do it while on my bike rides.

Pierre

Urantia Search in 15 languages with Thesaurus

I've added a search of the Urantia Book in 15 languages with a thesaurus. The thesaurus words are locked to only the words in the book.

It also has a table of contents and a form with all the words in the book and it also has a way to enter distance between words search, like, give me all the words where Jesus and love appear within 20 words of each other.

It can also find the paragraph where two or more words have to be in the paragraph for them to show. 

Pierre

Search and thesaurus

 I once created a search program of the Urantia book with a thesaurus that was limited to the words in the book.

Im thinking about adding those back in the programs at Urantiaworld.com.

I don't particularly like the personality selectable blocks. Maybe just change those to text might be clearer. 

Anyway, the aliases turned out nice.

Pierre

Aliases in the Urantia Book

It was mentioned that it's difficult to pick out an alias of a Urantia personality as the user had to search through an entire list to find the personality that you want to  see the alias of. So, if you wanted the aliases of "Creator Son", you couldn't select by "Michael Sons"

So I changed the aliases in the personality form where, when you select "Aliases" at the top of the form, the screen fills with all the names of the beings in the Urantia Book that have aliases, in their current language, When you click on one, then a new dialog box appears, in their current language, that shows all the aliases for that current personality. 

Translation inaccuracies

 I was asked why I didnt use the Foundation translations instead of using Google's translation system. Its obvious that a lot of effort was used to create accurate translations. My response was this:

Thats easy. I live in a litiginous society. Ive already went through suits in court and its no fun. Monetarily and mentally. Also synchronization is the 2nd issue.

I once scanned 42 papers at the time Cristin Maheera was sued by the Urantia Foundation, for typing the entire Urantia  book in. When they sued her,  it went all the way to the Supreme Court. 

At the time, I flew back to their headquarters and asked for permission. They told me to cease and desist and I did. Im not willing to face that kind of scrutiny. 

At the time, I was the first person to automate the loose leaf publication of the  maintenance manual on the Md11 aircraft at McDonald Douglas. So i had access to a $40,000 scanner. You can buy one now for less than 100.00.

The Urantia Foundation legally owns the translations and have paid for them, so they have the right, by law, to those translations and I would lose in court and it would cost me a lot more that 150.00 for each translation. Lawyers are costly and time consuming. Also I would have to redo all those translations again using the same technique I am currently using.

As a Urantian society, we went through a terrible breakup where the Brotherhood separated from the Foundation, it is now called the Fellowship. It caused a separation into different factions. It was an awful time where brother was pitted against brother. I am unwilling to place myself in a weak legal position. Id rather put up with accuracy issues and create something that can be used  by different language speaking nations.

If there is a Hebrew translation, which I haven't checked, if there is, any user can read it from there, if they wish. Maybe, the Google translations i used, are good enough to create a spark where someone wants to listen to the book in 2 languages.

There is also the problem with human translations in that they aren't sentence to sentence, so i would need to meticulously go through the various translations to see if they synchronized,  which the different human translations are not synchronized . This way, i am guaranteed sentence to sentence synchronization as I feed each language separately into the Google translator.  That way, im guaranteed synchronization. 

That was my second issue. I dont speak Swahili or Chinese. How could I guarantee that, if I used the Foundation's translation,  even if they gave me permission, that the sentence that I separated out of a translation was the sentence that was the same that was being read in the other language. 

The AI warned me that I would be out of synchronization and I would have no way of checking. I would have to hire translators that would read through the entire book to guarantee no mismatch. This way I am guaranteed synchronization at the expense of having, every so often,  inaccurate translation issues.

Once again. The Google translator is good enough. The whole idea is to make it so that a person can listen to two languages to learn another language. And by reading the concepts of the revelation.

Im not that concerned with accuracy like the foundation is. I started this with the idea of relearning my French and it worked really well for that purpose.

 

Also, the Urantia Foundation is missing translations like Swahili, I believe. I'm not sure they did Swahili and I dont really care if they do as the problem of synchronization is a real issue.

There is 3rd issue. When the breakup of the movement occured, it amplified the difference between the philosophy of getting the book to more people and the opposite of keeping of the copyright and the keeping of the book inviolate.

 The Foundation worried that they would lose the ability to keep the book in its original form. They worried about inaccuracies forming. They spent a large sum of the reader donations on fighting Maheera in court. 

The Foundation lost the copyright as the Supreme Court came to the conclusion that the book's authors were not Foundation authors and could not own the copyright. Which brings me back to ownership of translations. The Foundation owns their translated texts. And with the knowledge that someone in the Foundation could, for whatever reason, decide that they dont like me using their translations. I could be the brunt of the same thing that caused the original breakup of the movement into several factions.

Pierre

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Trip to Paradise Tanslations

 The trip to Paradise was basically done in one language, English. 

So now, most of the trip can be viewed in 12 languages. 

Having the sentence by sentence database opens so many possibilities. The translations arent perfect. They are, though, good enough to use.

The trip won't be done for quite a while but each day will bring it closer.

Pierre

Arabian Translations done

 The Arabian translation is live.

So I've transferred the 600,000 mp3s to my VPS computer on the Internet. I won't erase the mp3 audio folder on my website till I'm sure everyone have cleared their cache. 

If you arent aware of cache, thats where the stuff you've been looking at is saved temporarily on your machine so its faster and you dont have to download everything on the Internet from websites.

So if I've made a lot of changes to my website programs, you may be still using a cached program which is expecting the mp3s in the audio folder while the changes are using the VPS audio folder. So if I remove the folder on my website and the cache hasn't renewed, if I've removed the audio folder where the local cached programs expect it then your cached program will fail. Yuk

So yeah,  eventually you get to understand this stuff. Sometimes, if youre lucky, the AI will let you know.

Pierre

Arabian Translation and vps

 So by tomorrow or the next day, I'll have the Arabic translation finished.

But... I ran into a big problem. I have 3 websites. Using my 3 websites, I'm limited to 600,000 files. So 51,000 x 12 translations thats 612,000 mp3 files needed to use all of them. 600,000, thats my limit and thats with all my other files from all 3 of my websites. 

So yeah. My limit was reached. How to get around the limitation. Well it happens to be I needed a VPS relay for something else. I forgot why. Anyway, thats an actual (VPS), that stands for virtual private server. That's a full on computer on the net that runs Linux Ubuntu. And it has no limitations to the amount of files I have on it. Its just limited by the memory, which happens to be 50 gigabytes. Since my mp3 sound  files take just above 40 gigabytes, I've got room to play with. 

Now I'll need to set it up to use those mp3s from my website when the user needs them for the language reader. Very doable. The catch: It will take me 34 hours of non stop uploading to the VPS to get all the files copied.

So there it is, tomorrow, after I play music with my band, I'll finish the transfer and then remove all the audio files off of my Hostinger website system. Since I might do some more translations later on, I'll have room to spare.

Pierre

Hindi Translation Complete

 I'm uploading the mp3s for Hindi. It'll be done within the hour. The rest of the programs are ready for Hindi. The characters for Hindi are interesting. They take up more room than most languages.

Anyway, it's done. Now someone who speaks Hindi can learn 10 other languages while listening to the Urantia book, sentence by sentence.

When I go on my bike ride, I listen to the English/French sentence by sentence and I gotta say, it works really well. I understand most of what they are saying in French.

The Urantia book has a very sophisticated vocabulary, so it's a really good way to learn another language and at the same time, listening to the Urantia book.

Pierre

Polish translation finished

 Its done

 Last translation for a while. Spent 500.00 creating 10 translations using Google's translation system. 50.00 a translation. Pretty good deal.

Its not perfect but its good enough to learn 9 languages while reading the Urantia Book. Your own and 9 more.

I listen to it on my bike ride. Obviously I cant see the text while riding but its good enough to learn by.

Ive refreshed my French to the point where i understand most of what's being said. So it works. Hopefully I'll have other people using it.

Fixed a few problems throughout the Urantia world site.

Im taking a break now. Almost forgot, I have a few hours left on the personality tree.

Pierre

The Personality Tree

Wow. What a difference the language databases make in the update of the tree of personalities. I can add in all the languages for several personalities in one sitting. That would have taken me a month to do. 

I am completely blown away at just how powerful this creation of these sentence separated language databases. And along with each of those sentences, there are the same amount of mp3s as there are sentences. It completely changes what I'll be doing with the Urantia Book.

I can't wait to tackle other trees. For sure the evolutionary tracks of marine, plant, animal and human evolution journeys. When I do trees of those, I'll be adding in a progress bar based on time. Later, if  I  live that long, I would like to do Pangea and the north and south seas where they deposited the plasma. 

Wow!

Pierre

Polish Translation

 I started the Polish Translation. Same as the others. A sentence by sentence translation of 50,000 sentences. Then I'll start creating the 50,000 mp3s that match each Polish sentence. It'll be done tomorrow at 3:30am. 

Then I'll upload the database and the mp3s to my website. So midday tomorrow, the personalities and translation reader should be avaliable by midday. 

After the Polish translation is done, I'll get back to my 3d controlling system based on my power plant program that took me 30 years to create. First up, the alarm system on my home doors and windows.

Pierre

Chinese translation is done and ready

 Chinese translation is ready and working in both the personalities application and the translation application. 

A few problems cropped up with all the changes I've made. First, on smartphones, the text was covering part of the Sangik race flow sphere so I  placed a button at the top right that moves the text on and off the screen when  clicked.

Also, weird, the main entry in UrantiaWorld had a problem with the main buttons. They were partially covering one another. Fixed.

I still don't have a way of keeping the reading of the translations going on smartphones. So, in the middle of my bike ride,  the smartphone will just stop reading. It will take time to figure out to fix this problem.

Also changed the translation system so that when it's reading a  translation and it gets to the end of the paper, it will continue to the next paper instead of quitting.

Made it so that if you click on a word in the translation, it will show the other language word. I need to do something that explains words in the other chosen language because there's no way,  I'm going to learn Chinese or  Farsi or  Swahilli unless I have  a better explanation of the words. Where there's a will,  there has to be a way.

I'm slowly converting everywhere text is shown throughout the system,  it will use the 9 language databases. In the personalities form, i had individual mp3 sound files, that was laborious as I had to select pieces that related to the personalities by listening and copying the part of the audio that related. Oh man! Laborious. Using the sentences separated databases,  I can just tell it the numbers from and to, that explains the personality chosen. 

I asked the AI to give me all the positions in the Urantia Book that related to the personalities and they could then be selected and listened to. BUT..... There are so many entries related to the Father of Life that it wouldn't work in the small  panel. I'll have  to spend some time thinking about how to  make that work. 

Also I want to change the trip to Paradise to use the language databases. 

So much to do. 

Pierre

Nodites, Adamites, Andonites

 Ive added these 3 to the coloring flow of these races across the 3d globe. Im sure ill come up with different ways of viewing what takes place on the globe.

Pierre

Italian.is done

 Next is Portuguese. That'll be done today.

Pierre