Languages support

[Bleznudd]

Hi,

Since snips support a couple other languages besides english, is there a way to make use of them?
What needs to be translated in order to accomplish this goal?

If you can point me out which files needs to be edited, I can try in making a patch for another language

[createcandle]

That's a good question.

There are two relevant things:

• I'd like to switch from Snips to Rhasspy at some point. Rhasspy is, in theory, very comparible with Snips (uses the same MQTT message structure, the Hermes protocol). And it's open source. I'm just not sure if Rhasspy supports the machine learning flexibility yet, where users can speak sentences in various ways.

Rhasspy also supports multiple languages.

• The mayority of spoken sentences are generated in voco_adapter.py and intentions.py. Especially that second one. Retrofitting translation to various languges might best be done by creating a method that takes the english input and then returns strings for other languages.

I'm not sure how important it is to switch to Rhasspy first. I suspect it's fine to add translation now and switch later. But it's something to keep in mind.

[createcandle]

It seems intent recognition of Rhasspy still isn't where I hoped it would be.
https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intent-recognition/

[Bleznudd]

Thank you, I'll look into those files and try to make another language work.

What do you mean by:

I'm just not sure if Rhasspy supports the machine learning flexibility yet

From their docs it seems to me that snips NLU and rasa NLU are available. Why not switching to Rhasspy using one of these for intent recognition?

[createcandle]

Cool!

Why not switching to Rhasspy using [Snips NLU]

Interesting idea.

My goal is to make the addon fully open source. Still using Snips NLU would negate that. According to that page Rasa is very slow, and I don't want to lose the speed advantage. Althought I haven't tested it.