Hi I bought this and its working great! The one thing I'm trying to figure out is how to make the ai speak english when i speak english and chinese when I speak chinese, right now whenever i speak chinese i can see the text box is translating what I say back into english so the ai always replies in english, how can i fix this? right now if i type chinese in text the ai would speak in chinese, but I also want it to speak chinese when i speak chinese, thank you!
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Actually there are two problems. First, Chinese isn't implemented as an input language in the app — Whisper somehow picks up what you say in Chinese and translates it into English on its own. And if I were to add Chinese as an input language, it would do the reverse: translate what you say in English into Chinese. Supporting two languages at the same time isn't possible at the moment (and probably won't be in the future).
Thank you for the quick response! Oh interesting. Is it possible to add chinese as an input language then? That way i can toggle between english and chinese language settings. Also if the voice settings can connect to Volcengine api for it's voice services that would also be amazing since it has "doubao" the best chinese spoken voices on the market. Anyways, I just want to say it's a great product already, and I'm very excited for your future updates!
Adding Chinese as an input language is already on the roadmap, so that one's coming. For the TTS side though, I'll have to pass on Volcengine. Each new TTS provider takes a considerable amount of work to integrate, and I don't add new providers just to support a single language. The good news is that Chinese already works really well with OmniVoice, a local TTS option built into the app — it supports voice cloning and the quality is genuinely great.