Use json files from EnglishToPersianDictionaries

[yumeo-ch]

Hello, I found a collection Persian dictionaries that are based on movie subtitles and other cool themes. But apparently they are a completely distinct json format that cannot be opened in any app.

https://github.com/VahidN/EnglishToPersianDictionaries/blob/master/README.md

https://github.com/VahidN/EnglishToPersianDictionaries/blob/master/Dictionaries/subtitles/B.json

Do you have any idea on how to convert or open them ? It is not clear on what platform they should be used. Dikt doesn't open them.

Best Regards.

[ilius]

Put this script in a file named json-to-tabfile.py
https://gist.github.com/ilius/8327ae548222eb7285b83dc16ab07cde

Then cd to the directory that contains your json files.
Then run: python json-to-tabfile.py . subtitles.txt
(. means the current directory)

Then you can convert subtitles.txt to Dikt format using PyGlossary:

pyglossary subtitles.txt subtitles-dikt.json --write-format DiktJson

[yumeo-ch]

Another thing I just noticed is that when I search "hotel" it shows results where the word "hotel" appears but when I search "hotel room" there's no result, even tho the two-words exist in the dictionary (they appear in the search results when you search "hotel". all my tests are done in the "b" dictionary.

[ilius]

Updated the gist.

Also check https://github.com/ilius/aryanpour-tei if you are learning Persian.

[yumeo-ch]

You are hero ! It works great!
I found a list of scrapped farsi audio files (67000 entries!) and add them in goldendict. I am also using this https://github.com/lostact/hayyim-dictionary amazing dictionary, and of course Wiktionary English slob files from aard2. The combination of this three gives an amazing potential (audio + Wiktionary + hayyim) but still sometimes some words are missing (دمنوش). It would be amazing to find a way to reverse search the farsi entries in the subtitle files I provided here. In that situation, all single farsi would have translation offline !

[ilius]

GoldenDict desktop has full text search feature. Also the aryanpour that I linked above has a limited set of farsi to english entries.

[ilius]

Also check https://kaikki.org/dictionary/Persian/index.html

It's up-to-date and probably more complete. Rename .json to .jsonl and convert with pyglossary.