Thanks lroussow,
You prompted me to dive in the topic again. First off, I want to thank
reinholdk again for his research.
I still don't think this is feasible, song titles are just too short.
I've used mguesser and text_cat (perl) and out-of-the-box I get results
like this:
Code:
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max:/usr/src/mguesser-0.4# echo "Darling Dear" |./mguesser -n 3
0.3933247626 tl ascii
0.3848060966 it latin1
0.3840850294 ro ascii
max:/usr/src/mguesser-0.4# echo "Songs In The Key Of Life - A Something Extra
\(Bonus disc\)" |./mguesser -n 3
0.5872426629 en iso-8859-1
0.5660416484 fr iso-8859-1
0.5619236827 af latin1
max:/usr/src/libtextcat_perl# ./text_cat -d ./LM -l "Darling Dear"
danish or frisian
max:/usr/src/libtextcat_perl# ./text_cat -d ./LM -l "Songs In The Key Of
Life - A Something Extra \(Bonus disc\)"
english or german or indonesian or rumantsch or scots or danish or catalan
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The webservice provided by Xerox
http://open.xerox.com/Services/LanguageIdentifier seems much more
gifted. However, even it tags "Ballade de Melody Nelson" as Swedish when
it is French indeed. (And curiously it doesn't stumble upon the album
name "Histoire de Melody Nelson" and detects FR ok..)
>From watching the web pages, I'm afraid Musicbrainz isn't going to help
much, showing sometimes "multiple languages" and not giving the
information per title.
The issue is, statistically 0.58 en and 0.56 fr may be acceptable, but
the next step is to pick a voice to speak the text. And results are
dreadful when you don't pick the right voice/language... Detection has
to be absolutely rock solid for TTS to start working (for it has its
problems, too...)
I don't feel I'm up to the task. Thanks again to all.
4 SB 3 iPeng (iPhone + iPad) SqueezeLite Squeezebox Server 7.8.1
(Debian 7.5) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput by bpa IRBlaster by
Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix
by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song
Lyrics by Erland Isaksson WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld ShairTunes
by StuartUSA Local Player, BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode Auto
Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins.
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