Mastodon has an automatic language detector.
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p.p.s. Using the correct post language setting is also important for accessibility:
The language setting of a post determines how a screen reader pronounces it when read out loud.
If you have the wrong language setting on your post, this can make it difficult for blind and visually impaired people to understand it because their screen reader software may not prounce it correctly.
Thank you very much to @elettrona for pointing out this issue!
@FediTips @elettrona get the developers of pinafore and semaphore to add the setting to the compose dialogue…
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p.p.s. Using the correct post language setting is also important for accessibility:
The language setting of a post determines how a screen reader pronounces it when read out loud.
If you have the wrong language setting on your post, this can make it difficult for blind and visually impaired people to understand it because their screen reader software may not prounce it correctly.
Thank you very much to @elettrona for pointing out this issue!
@FediTips
Seems like this feature only works if you publish everything in the same language. There is no apparent way to define a language for every posting individually (where the auto detect would become really handy). -
@FediTips @elettrona get the developers of pinafore and semaphore to add the setting to the compose dialogue…
@mirabilos @FediTips Enafore has the same issue; I just installed it on my instance and it just has the default language setting for the profile. I'm currently using Mona on iPhone, which has auto language detection but it's llm-based and if on the mobile phone this is a good thing, when I find myself on the original mastodon app, what happens? I often forget to change and must modify the post in a second moment.
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@FediTips
Seems like this feature only works if you publish everything in the same language. There is no apparent way to define a language for every posting individually (where the auto detect would become really handy).@serac @FediTips I use @pachli for Android. My default language setting is German. Wehn I write in a different language, I get notified that I should change the language of the specific post. Sending this to test if it works in replies as well. I seem to remember that there was a hickup with that use case.
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@mirabilos @FediTips Enafore has the same issue; I just installed it on my instance and it just has the default language setting for the profile. I'm currently using Mona on iPhone, which has auto language detection but it's llm-based and if on the mobile phone this is a good thing, when I find myself on the original mastodon app, what happens? I often forget to change and must modify the post in a second moment.
@elettrona @FediTips LLM-based is almost never a good thing. In FediText I tend to put the correct language when posting… or the main language at any rate, if not
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@serac @FediTips I use @pachli for Android. My default language setting is German. Wehn I write in a different language, I get notified that I should change the language of the specific post. Sending this to test if it works in replies as well. I seem to remember that there was a hickup with that use case.
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p.p.s. Using the correct post language setting is also important for accessibility:
The language setting of a post determines how a screen reader pronounces it when read out loud.
If you have the wrong language setting on your post, this can make it difficult for blind and visually impaired people to understand it because their screen reader software may not prounce it correctly.
Thank you very much to @elettrona for pointing out this issue!
@FediTips However, don't expect Mastodon's OCR feature to use this setting. Even though the OCR library is available in many different languages, Mastodon always assumes that the text in an image is in English and will happily produce a load of crap if you tell it to recognize (for example, German) text in an image.
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@FediTips
Seems like this feature only works if you publish everything in the same language. There is no apparent way to define a language for every posting individually (where the auto detect would become really handy).@FediTips Case in point: @serac and @mirabilos, your posts in this thread have their language set to German.
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@FediTips Case in point: @serac and @mirabilos, your posts in this thread have their language set to German.
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@FediTips
Seems like this feature only works if you publish everything in the same language. There is no apparent way to define a language for every posting individually (where the auto detect would become really handy).There is, if you're using the web interface or an app that supports selecting the language.
For example the official iPhone app has a button at the bottom of the post with the language code on it, you can click this to change the language just for that post.
