Do you know of any tools for translating words into one of several languages in real time like a code completion drop down? (lemmy.world)

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I don't need useful translation. I need a way to randomize the words across different languages within the same sentence like a noise source where the basic grammatical structure is English but the words are many languages. I need to ensure the translated words are not in a list, then display the rest as a pull down menu or just code to swap the first option.

I was thinking about using the Wiktionary data dump, but if anyone knows a better option, I'd love to hear it.

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[-] village604@adultswim.fan 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Isn't that basically just a cypher? Shouldn't be too hard to do in Python or something.

There's several python libraries out there for translation, so all you'd need to do is build an array of languages, split the sentence into an array, then write a function to take a word, randomly generate a number for the language index, then call the translation library to translate the word. Then iterate through the sentence array, calling the function, then concat the array back into a string.

As to the second part about lists and drop downs, it seems like you're skipping over some needed context about what you're trying to accomplish with your random language sentences.

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