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

[Michael Johnson]

Thank you, Tobias, for actively working on this. You are a blessing to 
the Body of Christ!

On 4/26/26 05:23, contact at tklein.info wrote:
> Hi Michael!
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> I have implemented a local cache, that for sure makes sense.
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
>
> On 4/25/26 09:37, Michael Johnson wrote:
>>
>> 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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