Feature: Auto Translation for Viewers

[rahilraipuria]

Auto Translation Feature

Overview

The Auto Translation feature allows users to view on notes in their preferred language instantly.
It automatically detects the note’s original language and provides live translations for viewers.

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Key Features

• Automatic Language Detection: Identify the language of each note or text block.
• Instant Translation: Translate content dynamically on view.
• Multi-language Collaboration: Each user can view in their own language while syncing with a shared base version.
• Manual Override: Users can choose target languages manually.

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[rahilraipuria]

@braydenidzenga @MannuVilasara If you find this feature relevant to your project, please assign this to me. Love to work on that.

[rahilraipuria]

@MannuVilasara @braydenidzenga Sorry for late reply as I was busy with my college exams.
Can I start working on #81 and #82 ?

[MannuVilasara]

I think we won't be needing text to speech as of now. we can keep that issue there and will consider about it someday else.

As for translator, you can start working on it. let me know how you'll be doing it. as it will be most likely frontend only feature. create new utility function for translation in utils folder

[rahilraipuria]

Hey @MannuVilasara @braydenidzenga I am planning to use Google translate API which will involve API KEY. so, need to do through via backend to safeguard the KEY.

can do on frontend but it is best when we need to translate the UI. Its not for content on website.

here is the pricing details from Google.

let me know if I can proceed with this.

[MannuVilasara]

our project is really small as of now so we won't be able to choose paid services. do u have any alternatives?

[rahilraipuria]

@MannuVilasara @braydenidzenga google offers free tier also which includes 5 lakhs character per month.

else we can use an alternative of unofficial google translate https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=auto&tl=${targetLang}&dt=t&q=${encodeURIComponent(text)}

or we can just take any open source translate app and can self host onto our own server (there are apis which allow self hosting) which can solve rate limiting and cost problem

[MannuVilasara]

I'll look into it on weekends ^^