Software Applications: GENERAL TASKS, Linux

FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) is the lexical and text tools component of SIL FieldWorks . It is an open source desktop application designed to help field linguists perform many common tasks. It can help you: record and manage l ...

Application - languist - 02/07/2012 - 13:23 - 3 comments

Adapt It is an automated adaptation tool to adapt text from one language into a related language.  It accomplishes this by memorizing word translations as the user types them, and automatically suggesting them when the word is encountered again.&n ...

Application - dhigby - 12/28/2011 - 10:26 - 1 comment

Translation Editor helps Bible translators edit and check Biblical text in a vernacular language. In Translation Editor, members of a translation team can do any of the following: Edit Scripture text in almost any language of the wor ...

Application - languist - 02/07/2012 - 13:14 - 0 comments

Introduction Bibledit is a multi-platform Bible editor, providing tools to the Bible translator.   Features Native USFM text editor, several texts can be opened at once Project notes editor Chapter and bo ...

Application - dhigby - 12/28/2011 - 14:45 - 0 comments

A basic need to do any language work on the computer is a font that will display the needed characters. Fonts that come with your operating system may have a certain number of characters already, but the SIL fonts frequently have a wider variety of cha ...

Application - sewhite - 12/28/2011 - 14:40 - 0 comments

Webonary gives language groups the ability to put their bilingual or multilingual dictionaries on the web with a minimum of technical help. Each dictionary is built around a search bar, which looks for a word throughout the dictionary, and returns ...

Application - Steve Miller - 06/21/2011 - 15:17 - 1 comment

This add-on inserts linguistic examples into LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org Writer documents.  It reads XML files from Phonology Assistant, Toolbox, and FieldWorks. Other features include: - Data Conversion using SIL Converters. ...

Application - jim_kornelsen - 08/18/2011 - 03:26 - 0 comments

WeSay helps non-linguists build a dictionary in their own language. It has various ways to help native speakers to think of words in their language and enter some basic data about them. The program is customizable and task-oriented, giving the advisor ...

Application - hatton - 08/10/2011 - 17:23 - 0 comments

SFM2Web is a Python3 program that converts materials encoded using SIL's Standard Format Marker format (see a very brief description here ) into web pages. The program can convert a lexicon, interlinear texts, Bible books, a multilanguage phra ...

Application - dhigby - 05/02/2011 - 06:13 - 0 comments

An audio editor that runs on all major platforms. It is oriented more toward music than phonetics and has only limited analysis tools. However, it can do noise reduction and has some useful editing tools, including the ability to modify individual samp ...

Application - languist - 09/02/2010 - 08:51 - 1 comment