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Explainerhttps://github.com/WICG/translation-api/blob/main/README.md (This explainer bundles together the translator API and the language detector API, since they are very related. This Intent is only for the language detector API.) SpecificationNone yet, although we're excited to start writing one during the trial. Summary A JavaScript API for detecting the language of text, with confidence levels. Blink componentBlink>AI>Language Detection <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EAI%3ELanguage%20Detection> TAG reviewhttps://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/948 TAG review statusIssues open: "satisfied with concerns", mainly around naming. Risks Interoperability and Compatibility This feature, like all built-in AI features, has inherent interoperability risks due to the use of AI models whose behavior is not fully specified. See some general discussion in https://www.w3.org/reports/ai-web-impact/#interop. By providing a high-level API with clear output formats, as well as a capabilities API for detecting what a given browser supports, we believe we can guide web developers toward using the API in an interoperable way that does not depend on the specific models that a given browser or browser version uses. *Gecko*: No signal ( https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1015) *WebKit*: No signal ( https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/339) *Web developers*: Positive (https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/147) *Other signals*: Ergonomics This API will likely frequently be used in concert with the translator API ( https://chromestatus.com/feature/5172811302961152). Our current implementation is tied up with the browser's built-in language detection, which runs on the main thread. Alternative architectures are possible and we're exploring the implications of the current one through the origin trial process. Activation This feature would definitely benefit from having polyfills, backed by any of: cloud services, lazily-loaded on-device models using WebGPU, or the web developer's own server. We anticipate seeing an ecosystem of such polyfills grow as more developers experiment with this API. WebView application risks Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? None Goals for experimentation Our main goal for the origin trial is to get feedback on model quality and performance when faced with real-world use cases from developers. For example, we are interested in how often multilingual input is provided and what developers expect for such cases ( https://github.com/WICG/translation-api/issues/13). We also expect to get some feedback on the API shape (which will likely evolve throughout the trial), and how limiting the current architecture's ability to only run after page load is. Ongoing technical constraints None. Debuggability Basic tooling suffices Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?Yes Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> ?No. We hope to work on web platform tests for this feature, but how much we can guarantee as testable beyond the surface API is unclear. For example, since no specific languages are guaranteed to be supported, it's not clear we can actually test language detection. APIs to mock the results might help here. Flag name on chrome://flagslanguage-detection-api Finch feature nameLanguageDetectionAPI Requires code in //chrome?False MeasurementkV8LanguageDetector_Detect_Method Estimated milestones We may shift these milestones back to 130-135 depending on engineering bandwidth. If so, we will update the Chrome Platform Status entry. Origin trial desktop first 129 Origin trial desktop last 134 Origin trial Android first 129 Origin trial Android last 134 Origin trial WebView first 129 Origin trial WebView last 134 Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status https://chromestatus.com/feature/6494349985841152?gate=6142474019143680 Links to previous Intent discussionsIntent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ie46tc6_8so/m/eY1huFmOAAAJ This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status <https://chromestatus.com/>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAM0wra-WvH-sxxWndwAWPLF3eEYqeLhXrz-VmZKH4Wxzbpse-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
