[Sw-l] Multilingual sign dictionary with SignWriting

Tue Oct 4 16:35:27 UTC 2022

SignWriting List
October 4, 2022

Hello Honza, and everyone on the SW List -

What a lovely online dictionary. Congratulations, Honza, and to all of your team in the Czech Republic, and also I do remember that you and your team have been working on this dicitonary for many years… It looks great and thank you for providing the world with this resource.

I like the format and it is working for me. I know the others have provided feedback about their experiences, and that is good that you asked. For me, when I go to:

https://www.dictio.info/

for the first time, on Chrome, on my iMac desktop computer, I get the English user interface automatically. So it is quite easy for me to use the dictionary immediately. I see there are other language choices in the top right corner, but in my case I do not need to change languages.

And I love the choices of languages in the dictionary itself too - for example, here is a screen capture of one of the signs that I found for CZJ (Czech Sign Language):

> On Oct 4, 2022, at 2:22 AM, Honza Fikejs <honza.fikejs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Steve, Val and the list!
> 
> I am very glad, you have written about the dictionary, we have been working on for almost 20 years now on Masaryk University (Brno, Czechia)!
> It contains several spoken and several sign languages that are important for people living in central europe.
> I believe I have already shared some details about this project in the past, but this way of sharing makes me more happy. 
> 
> The reason why we use SignWriting besides videos is that once you know a basics of SignWriting, you don't have to play each video to get an overview of the content.
> 
> I will be glad if you have any feedback about the site or content.
> Anyway if you open the site http://dictio.info for the first time, do you get the english interface or not?
> The site should set the interface language automatically depending on your location.
> 
> Honza
> _____________________

> 
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 6:22 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> September 27, 2022
> 
> Hi Steve -
> I am so glad you re-explained this to me and everyone here on the SignWriting List. This is a major accomplishment, Steve, giving others the chance to work with SignWriting in a new and better way. Thank you for this development.
> 
> So for those who are creating your own sites and programs, Steve has developed tools for you to use that make it faster and also more standardized around the world… if I understand it correctly, this new dictionary site is using:
> 
> the Sutton SignWriting packages
> which help people develop new applications for SignWriting.
> 
> Go to:
> https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/#production
> 
> Steve explains below its benefits -
> 
> So glad programmers and designers have found your new work, Steve!
> 
> Val ;-)
> 
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> 
> 
>> On Sep 27, 2022, at 8:47 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Val,
>> 
>> The dictionary is beautiful, I agree.  I was looking a little deeper into the site and I was happy to see that they are using the @sutton-signwriting/font-db package.
>> * https://sign.dictio.info
>> 
>> The major benefit of using this package is that they can add new SignWriting using text rather than having to create and upload new images.  In a practical sense, the sign I linked in my original message requires 0.086 KB of text opposed to an 8 KB image.  The images are generated as needed, so any sign that can be written with Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) is possible.
>> 
>> I'm glad the new Sutton SignWriting packages are helping people develop new applications for SignWriting.
>> * https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/#production
>> 
>> Very cool!
>> -Steve
> 
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> 
>> 
>> On 9/27/22 10:09 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>> SignWriting List
>>> September 27, 2022
>>> 
>>> Hi Steve and everyone!
>>> 
>>> This is a beautiful new dictionary using video and SignWriting to write the videos, and I believe this is from Masaryk University, which is in the Czech Republic… Thank you to everyone invovled. It is gorgeous. Thanks Steve for telling us about it…
>>> 
>>> Here is a screen capture of one of the screens
>>> 
>>> <Screen%20Shot%202022-09-27%20at%208.08.31%20AM.png>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> <Valerie_Signature_5.jpg>
>>> Val ;-)
>>> 
>>> __________
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 27, 2022, at 6:40 AM, Stephen Slevinski <slevin at SIGNPUDDLE.NET> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi SignWriting List,
>>>> 
>>>> Interesting site I found yesterday that uses SignWriting: https://www.dictio.info
>>>> 
>>>> It is a "Multilingual dictionary focused on sign languages" with 158,357 entries and 53,970 translations.  Reading the about page, it's been around for many years.
>>>> 
>>>> Looking at the SignWriting images, they are using Formal SignWriting in ASCII and the style string.  Very cool.
>>>> https://sign.dictio.info/fsw/sign/png/M531x653S16c26510x588S2880d505x618S2880b507x567S14c20487x532S18520480x638S34c00482x483-CG_white_
>>>> 
>>>> <M531x653S16c26510x588S2880d505x618S2880b507x567S14c20487x532S18520480x638S34c00482x483-CG_white_.png>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -Steve
>>> 
> 

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