Dictionaries/spell checkers

[Assim Deodia]

Hi Sayamindu,

I am working on Google Summer of Code project Listen and Spell (
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Listen_and_Spell) uner the mentorship of Dafydd
Harries. The is like a word game in which computer speaks the word using
speech synthesis and user has to spell is correctly. For this I needed a
dictionary with meanings and sample.

I found a wordnet (english) dictionary (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/)
which, after removing alpha numeric words and all other data except the
sample and definition,  has served my purpose. It was about 200Mb which
after striping down is now about 12 Mb and consisting about 77535 words in
SQLite format.

As dictionary is required by other applications also, I wonder if it is
feasible to centralised a dictionary service in XO?

You can see the dictionary working in the command line application of Listen
and Spell (http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/listen-spell).

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 01:56, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Can anyone provide me with any information on the
> dictionaries/spellcheckers that we ship in our builds ?
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
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Assim Deodia | http://nsitonline.in/assim
Undergraduate Student, Netaji Shubhas Institute of Technology
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