[Say - Text to Speech] ...Language autodetection

[AMGMNPLK]

Extension

https://www.raycast.com/litomore/say

Description

Auto detection of the language of the text.

Who will benefit from this feature?

Everybody who read more than one language

Anything else?

No response

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[LitoMore]

@AMGMNPLK Thanks for submitting this nice feature request.

Could you share more use cases about this request? I would like to hear some scenes when you're using this extension.

I've drafted a working branch that uses the Raycast AI to detect the language, but it requires the Raycast Pro membership.

I also checked some existing npm libraries for detecting the language, like tinyld. However, this does not support a detailed language branch/region. Here are some example sentences below:

"My favourite colour."
// tinyld => 'en'
// AI     => 'en_GB'

"kawaii"
// tinyld => 'en'
// AI     => 'ja_JP'

The benefit of tinyld is network-less as the concept of the Say extension. The Raycast AI is a more powerful and intelligent way of detecting languages.

I can implement both of them into the extension. And make it configurable through extension preferences. Does this sound good to you?