Support other languages

[ftyers]

It seems that Leon currently only speaks English (?)

It would be great if the software could support other languages. And do it in a way that is more extensible/linguistically informed than Mycroft.

[louistiti]

Hello @ftyers,

Thanks for opening this issue.

Leon supports English but also French. I plan to support other languages in the future, but that's not the priority for now. I let you read this other issue for your reference.

[ftyers]

That's cool, but please when you're designing the system take into account languages with more variation than just English or French (which both have the same word order, trivial morphology and are both typologically quite similar), or it will be very hard to change later. e.g. the way Mycroft works with template filling is not extensible to the majority of the languages in the world. So either they just don't support those languages or they have to rewrite the entire software.

Here is one example of an issue from the Mycroft page: Here is one discussion of the weather skill from a seminar I gave last semestre. Here is another issue from Mycroft relating to language-specific issues. In addition, if you design support for things like code switching from the beginning it will likely be easier than retrofitting it later.

[louistiti]

Thanks for your suggestion.

I will close that issue as the answer has been provided to the original topic.