Cyber Detective💙💛
Cyber Detective💙💛

@cyb_detective

15 Tweets 60 reads Jan 25, 2022
Working with foreign languages, dialects, and slang in #OSINT
Tools and tips.
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deepl.com (@DeepLcom)
This neural network-based translator is little known and supports few languages, but it is VERY good. Just give it a try.
#AI
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For rare languages we have to use translate.google.com (109 languages) or translate.yandex.ru (100 languages).
In case you do not know what language you are translating from (and Google/Yandex work wrong), detect it with:
translatedlabs.com
whatlanguageisthis.com
Large volumes of text, especially those combining several languages, are easy to translate using Google Sheets and special functions:
=DETECTLANGUAGE(A1)
=GOOGLETRANSLATE("A1"; "en")
Languages in #osint🧵⤵️⤴️
If you need to recognize text in a foreign language in an image and translate it immediately, I recommend using Yandex.Images
yandex.ru
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And if you need to type in a foreign language (for example, for a Google search), use the virtual online keyboard:
lexilogos.com
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When gathering information about a place, don't be lazy to look up sources in local, regional languages as well.
Determining the local language by latitude and longitude will help with this service (try a wide range of coordinates)
wals.info
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And this service will help you see what language prevails in a particular country (and at the same time listen to how its name sounds in different languages).
localingual.com
(You can use Wikipedia for this, but the map is very nice)
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It is possible to understand where people comes from by the peculiarities of his english speech. Hypothesize (Could he be Hindu?) and compare his speech recordings with the speech recordings of representatives of his supposed nationality.
accent.gmu.edu
don't work now
And for some languages there are even applications for identifiers, which by recording the speech determine which region the person is from (but they are not accurate and exist more for fun):
englishdialectapp.com
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Sometimes a person's background can give away just one specific word. Even residents of different American states may have lexical differences in their speech. Here are, for example, words specific to Texas:
frontiertexas.com
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When examining social media posts or other writings of the subject under study, pay special attention to "strange words" and abbreviations. Specific slang can tell you a lot about a person's hobbies, profession, and interests.
urbandictionary.com
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@threadrip
unroll
@PingThread
unroll
@threadreaders
unroll
@TurnipSocial
save
@readwiseio
save thread
@tresselapp
save thread
@rattibha unroll
If the inscription on the picture in a foreign language is not recognizable, try to cut out individual letters (and, if necessary, draw individual elements a little more clearly) and then upload each letter to Yandex.Images. This will help determine the intended language.
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