Automatically determine the article's language and use the correct voice

[Nemobil]

Thanks a lot for this helpful skill! I really like it.
However, I often have articles in different languages in my pocket list (mainly German and English). The skill is reading German articles (i.e. my system language) correctly with the German voice. However, English articles are also read with the German voice, making them useless.
It would be great if the skill could automatically determine the language of an article and switch to the corresponding voice - like the official pocket app on the smart phone does.

Many thanks again for your efforts in creating this skill!

[carsonip]

Sorry for replying this late. Thanks for the suggestion. There are a limited number of languages supported by alexa at the moment, see https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/speech-synthesis-markup-language-ssml-reference.html#lang

If pocket API has info on the language of the article, it would help. Otherwise it requires a way to determine the language of the article. Anyway, I'll look into it and get back to you once I get something.

[Nemobil]

Hi, thanks for your reply. Doing a quick search in the pocket API unfortunately did not reveal a parameter for the language. (However, I suspect that sending a request to pocket for such a feature from a developer might help, at least in the long run. ;-) Extending their API so that you could request all articles of a certain language might also be interesting!) Doing a quick qoogle search, I found several services that determine the language type of a text, some of which are free: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/detecting-language (free?!) https://detectlanguage.com/ (1000 requests free) Hence, I hope there is a feasible path for such a feature. Many thanks in any case for considering my idea! Christian Am So., 3. Mai 2020 um 18:17 Uhr schrieb Carson Ip <notifications@github.com

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: Sorry for replying this late. Thanks for the suggestion. There are a limited number of languages supported by alexa at the moment, see https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/speech-synthesis-markup-language-ssml-reference.html#lang If pocket API has info on the language of the article, it would help. Otherwise it requires a way to determine the language of the article. Anyway, I'll look into it and get back to you once I get something. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#13 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAMO7XYZH3VOXHDINMABJMDRPWKI3ANCNFSM4MJOB4TQ> .

[carsonip]

I did a quick search, this looks promising: https://www.npmjs.com/package/languagedetect

But it will take some time to implement this. I'll do this when I have time.

[Nemobil]

Great! :-) I am really looking forward to his feature. This will be a game changer for me (and most likely/hopefully many others)!

[Nemobil]

Hi, I wish you a happy new year and hope that you are well despite the Corona pandemic! Referring to our conversation last year, I wanted to kindly ask if you have been able to look into the problem of automatically determining the language of a pocket article to automatically select the correct language for read out. If determining the language automatically does not work, an alternative approach would be to enable the user to switch the language for the current article "manually", i.e., by integrating a voice command in the my pocket skill such as "Alexa, switch language to German". Best regards, Christian Am Mo., 4. Mai 2020 um 17:27 Uhr schrieb Carson Ip <notifications@github.com

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[pataquets]

Interested in Spanish & English detection.