ldetect

ldetect

Simple tool to run different command according to the language used in stdin.

Installation

The tool is available in the AUR:

yay -S ldetect

Otherwise, you can build it:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~primalmotion/ldetect
cd ldetect
go install

Examples

This will use bat -n to display "hello world"

$ echo "hello world" | ldetect --fr cat --en "bat -n"

This will use cat to display "bonjour"

$ echo "bonjour" | ldetect --fr cat --en "bat -n"

You can use string substition to pass the content to stdin as a solid argument:

$ echo "bonjour" | ldetect --fr "echo le texte est: %s" --en "echo the text is: %s"
le texte est: bonjour

You can use the --detect flag to simply print the detected language based on a given candidates list:

$ echo "Hola" | ldetect --detect fr,en,es
spanish

I made this tool for text-to-speech so you can do something like:

wl-paste -p | ldetect \
  --fr "mimic3 --voice fr_FR/m-ailabs_low" \
  --en "mimic3 --voice en_US/hifi-tts_low"

This will use the correct voice based on the language of the content of the the primary clipboard.

Usage

Forwards stdin to different commands based on input language

Usage:
  ldetect [flags]

Flags:
      --af string        Command to run if the text is in Afrikaans
      --ar string        Command to run if the text is in Arabic
      --az string        Command to run if the text is in Azerbaijani
      --be string        Command to run if the text is in Belarusian
      --bg string        Command to run if the text is in Bulgarian
      --bn string        Command to run if the text is in Bengali
      --bs string        Command to run if the text is in Bosnian
      --ca string        Command to run if the text is in Catalan
      --cs string        Command to run if the text is in Czech
      --cy string        Command to run if the text is in Welsh
      --da string        Command to run if the text is in Danish
      --de string        Command to run if the text is in German
      --detect strings   Just print the detected language from the list of candidates
      --el string        Command to run if the text is in Greek
      --en string        Command to run if the text is in English
      --eo string        Command to run if the text is in Esperanto
      --es string        Command to run if the text is in Spanish
      --et string        Command to run if the text is in Estonian
      --eu string        Command to run if the text is in Basque
      --fa string        Command to run if the text is in Persian
      --fi string        Command to run if the text is in Finnish
      --fr string        Command to run if the text is in French
      --ga string        Command to run if the text is in Irish
      --gu string        Command to run if the text is in Gujarati
      --he string        Command to run if the text is in Hebrew
  -h, --help             help for ldetect
      --hi string        Command to run if the text is in Hindi
      --hr string        Command to run if the text is in Croatian
      --hu string        Command to run if the text is in Hungarian
      --hy string        Command to run if the text is in Armenian
      --id string        Command to run if the text is in Indonesian
      --is string        Command to run if the text is in Icelandic
      --it string        Command to run if the text is in Italian
      --ja string        Command to run if the text is in Japanese
      --ka string        Command to run if the text is in Georgian
      --kk string        Command to run if the text is in Kazakh
      --ko string        Command to run if the text is in Korean
      --la string        Command to run if the text is in Latin
      --lg string        Command to run if the text is in Ganda
      --lt string        Command to run if the text is in Lithuanian
      --lv string        Command to run if the text is in Latvian
      --mi string        Command to run if the text is in Maori
      --mk string        Command to run if the text is in Macedonian
      --mn string        Command to run if the text is in Mongolian
      --mr string        Command to run if the text is in Marathi
      --ms string        Command to run if the text is in Malay
      --nb string        Command to run if the text is in Bokmal
      --nl string        Command to run if the text is in Dutch
      --nn string        Command to run if the text is in Nynorsk
      --pa string        Command to run if the text is in Punjabi
      --pl string        Command to run if the text is in Polish
      --pt string        Command to run if the text is in Portuguese
      --ro string        Command to run if the text is in Romanian
      --ru string        Command to run if the text is in Russian
      --sk string        Command to run if the text is in Slovak
      --sl string        Command to run if the text is in Slovene
      --sn string        Command to run if the text is in Shona
      --so string        Command to run if the text is in Somali
      --sq string        Command to run if the text is in Albanian
      --sr string        Command to run if the text is in Serbian
      --st string        Command to run if the text is in Sotho
      --sv string        Command to run if the text is in Swedish
      --sw string        Command to run if the text is in Swahili
      --ta string        Command to run if the text is in Tamil
      --te string        Command to run if the text is in Telugu
      --th string        Command to run if the text is in Thai
      --tl string        Command to run if the text is in Tagalog
      --tn string        Command to run if the text is in Tswana
      --tr string        Command to run if the text is in Turkish
      --ts string        Command to run if the text is in Tsonga
      --uk string        Command to run if the text is in Ukrainian
      --ur string        Command to run if the text is in Urdu
      --vi string        Command to run if the text is in Vietnamese
      --xh string        Command to run if the text is in Xhosa
      --yo string        Command to run if the text is in Yoruba
      --zh string        Command to run if the text is in Chinese
      --zu string        Command to run if the text is in Zulu

That's it.