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		seanwilson on April 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSS for Internationalisation > Google translate already has an auto-detect language feature. Yep, I'm asking how hard it is to build a quick and simple auto-detect feature. Is it harder than it looks?

mjlee on April 25, 2020 | [–]

It kind of depends what you mean by build. From scratch - I have no idea. For Google Chrome? It's just an API call away - https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/detecting-lang...

naniwaduni on April 25, 2020 | | [–]

As a rule of thumb, everything in NLP is harder than it looks.

sergeykish on April 25, 2020 | [–]

https://github.com/google/cld3

build requires Chromium, not so hard

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