Hi Franc,

Awesome stuff!

Just a bit worried about the exact commands though. African and Slavic 
aren't languages so I wonder what they correspond to. Having putonghua or 
Mandarin would be more appropriate than Chinese as Chinese is a disparate 
group of languages — and it's worth mentioning that Mandarin doesn't 
account for a whopping 400 million speakers of languages from that group. 
Malaysian is a nationality, Malay being the language you're looking for, 
and finally Catalan should be used instead of Catalonian.

Regarding the selection, I do hope this is also easily modifiable as a lot 
of languages supported by the API are missing, including some of the "big" 
ones. Not only German, as already mentioned, but Hindi, Tamil, Kannada (of 
Bangalore's fame)… I feel TW's existing text translations shouldn't be the 
limit here. I almost never apply localizations to my programs and just 
because my email interface is in English for example doesn't mean I'm not 
going to want to write my emails in the languages I happen to be able to 
write. I also want to point out that the STT capabilities for some of the 
"minor" languages are incredible and this tool would be extremely 
empowering for their typically neglected users.

I assume that accent can be specified manually in the settings and there is 
less sense in being able to switch accents on the fly (though some use 
cases could require that too I imagine) but it bears reminding this is 
extremely important. Try the Nigerian accent for English with your standard 
accent and see how that works out for you. The differences are probably 
more extreme between the forms of French from Québec and France, among the 
many forms of Spanish (especially from the Cono de Oro as it was strongly 
influenced by Italian), between Swiss or Bavarian German and standard 
German…

Best,
R²

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