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Introducing Word Lens

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Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by senorprogrammer »

aresant wrote: post #139

The walls are coming down so fast it's making my head spin - job well done! I immediately sent the link to a dozen people, about half wrote back "How much is it?" and "How do I download it?" Since QuestVisual.com is clearly going to sweep the entirety of the internets by this time next week a few friendly conversion suggestions: a) Change your button to "Try Word Lens FREE - Click Here" b) The logo under your button…

Another observation about the site: it's very Facebook-unfriendly at the moment. Try sharing the URL on Facebook and you'll see that the site lacks any text or images that FB can readily pick up for display and thus only your URL is displayed. This app looks amazing, but that does make it a bit hard to tell people about on Fb.

Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by memetichazard »

gus_massa wrote: post #219
deno wrote: post #174

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Google Translate is not word-to-word though.

I know that Google Translate is not word-to-word, but it is not perfect. For example, a few years ago, some students of my wife give to her a homework about clocks and gears. When she read it, she was annoyed because the redaction was incredible horrible. But later we realized that the students didn't write it, the "homework" was a web page translated with Google Translate. Another time, I need an example of the diff…

Google Translate is definitely far from perfect.

I once saw this forum post that was in German, that Google translated "A: Nyet." to "A: Yes."

Since it was a question and answer post regarding information for an upcoming game, there was quite of bit of fuss over it before this translation error was discovered.

Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by keeptrying »

johndeweese wrote: post #86
gus_massa wrote: post #84

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(Native Spanish speaker here.) First: This app is amazing! But I think that this app is doing almost a word by word translations, without a list of usual expressions or grammatical analysis. For example, the correct translation of 'Dead End' is 'callejón sin salida' , that means literally something like 'street without exit' . Translating word by word 'Dead End' you obtain 'Muerto Fin' that is unintelligible. Another…

yep, this is a word-for-word translation, because it's fast and it gets the point across. we're working to improve translation quality and finesse, but it's a much harder problem to understand grammar. so, we hope it gives the general meaning, and you can learn to piece it apart.

Theres a huge market for Indians going back home and who cant read their native tongue.

Do you have an API or something? I would love to work on a tamil to english dictionary.

Can you please email me? My email is in my profile. Thanks.

Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by aresant »

webjunkie wrote: post #211
aresant wrote: post #139

The walls are coming down so fast it's making my head spin - job well done! I immediately sent the link to a dozen people, about half wrote back "How much is it?" and "How do I download it?" Since QuestVisual.com is clearly going to sweep the entirety of the internets by this time next week a few friendly conversion suggestions: a) Change your button to "Try Word Lens FREE - Click Here" b) The logo under your button…

omg.. please no "click here"

Please explain?

Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by mrchess »

I'm reading comments on this app on other blog sites and people say things like "translations suck", "not worth your time".

Times like this remind me how ridiculous consumer expectations can be. People still don't get that product development takes time and energy -- they just like to criticize with their elitist expectations only because they own an iPhone.

But yes, this app is great. Keep it up!

Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by 27182818284 »

It is amazing that you can get a piece of software for free (with language packs for an extra low price)

This is something the US military would have paid millions and millions for in the past. Now, you see people say, "I'd even pay fifteen whole dollars for that app"

haha, oh wow.

Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by elliottcarlson »

staunch wrote: post #94
kmfrk wrote: post #58

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You should register wordlensapp.com or something of the like. I'm not sure hosting nothing but the app promotion on a site with a completely different URL is beneficial. With such a product, you should perhaps brand yourself more on your product than your company name. :) Just throwing it out there.

For future reference: never mention registering a domain in a public forum. Some douchebag will always register it and try to sell it to you. In this case someone has already registered wordlensapp.com. We can only hope it's the Quest Visual people.

Doesn't look like it...

Different registrar, different DNS and the obvious spam landing page. sigh

Re: Introducing Word Lens

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Post by elliottcarlson »

iskander wrote: post #134
foresterh wrote: post #67

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Not to sound harsh, but I don't think the blind would find a lot of use for this app...

I know many blind people who use iphones, and they'd love a tool to help them read street signs, cereal boxes, etc... Blind people are patient by necessity, I'm sure there are many who wouldn't mind waving around their phone scanning for text.

While I am sure that there is a use as an aide, and I have known blind people who are both patient and very independent, I doubt they would stand on street corner waving a phone around hoping to catch some text.

That doesn't rule out that text to speech with translation wouldn't be beneficial - just not in this context imho.

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