I remember having an Oxford Dictionary CD as a child (got it with the physical copy).
Unfortunately, it stopped working long ago (and I didn’t rip it), but while it did work, I had quite a lot of fun reading up on word-origins, synonyms/antonyms, pronunciations and whatnot.
I’d honestly rather be able to connect something like that to Calibre (and other programs) with DBus, rather than use AI for a definition. And that was just a single CD (I can be sure, because I didn’t have a DVD reader).
AI is not only capable of definitions. In fact… You wouldn’t use it for that. But It’s terribly good at context. So it can interpret a whole phrase, or paragraph. Maybe calibre even passes the book metadata so it can infer characters, places and broader context.
Yeah, that won’t really be doable just by an extended dictionary.
I myself tend to use Google sometimes, to look for stuff like “one word for the phrase …” and most of the times the AI is the one giving the answer.
QuickDic’s default databases are compiled from Wiktionary entries, and Wiktionary seems like the most reliable part of Wikipedia currently. Wonder then if that couldn’t be used also. On QuickDic, having all databases installed takes a bit over 1 GB, not much for desktop standards afaik.
I remember having an Oxford Dictionary CD as a child (got it with the physical copy).
Unfortunately, it stopped working long ago (and I didn’t rip it), but while it did work, I had quite a lot of fun reading up on word-origins, synonyms/antonyms, pronunciations and whatnot.
I’d honestly rather be able to connect something like that to Calibre (and other programs) with DBus, rather than use AI for a definition. And that was just a single CD (I can be sure, because I didn’t have a DVD reader).
So, perhaps some other use case?
AI is not only capable of definitions. In fact… You wouldn’t use it for that. But It’s terribly good at context. So it can interpret a whole phrase, or paragraph. Maybe calibre even passes the book metadata so it can infer characters, places and broader context.
Yeah, that won’t really be doable just by an extended dictionary.
I myself tend to use Google sometimes, to look for stuff like “one word for the phrase …” and most of the times the AI is the one giving the answer.
QuickDic’s default databases are compiled from Wiktionary entries, and Wiktionary seems like the most reliable part of Wikipedia currently. Wonder then if that couldn’t be used also. On QuickDic, having all databases installed takes a bit over 1 GB, not much for desktop standards afaik.