Automatic listening

[llcc]

Hi @atykhonov,

Can you see automatic listening will be a good feature for google-translate? In my situation, when i start to read the article, I will call the command to get the listening with mouse or locate the button by keyboard. Surely it will save much time if you can give a option to make it automatically.

Best regards.
llcc

[atykhonov]

Hi @llcc !

Thank you for the feature request! I'll implement the function which will allow to listen translation without any needs to translate it to text first. And will try to implement automatic translation as well.

[llcc]

@atykhonov , that will be a great feature, thanks in advance.

[atykhonov]

Hi @llcc !

I'm sorry for such long delay! I extracted function by means of which you can listen translation. This function is google-translate-listen-translation.

You can call it in the following way:

M-: (google-translate-listen-translation "en" "book") RET

You can use that function in many different ways. For example, you can use the following function (M-x listen-article RET):

(defun listen-article ()
  (interactive)
  (google-translate-listen-translation "en"
    (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))))

That function takes all text from the current buffer (assuming your article is there) and translates it. I'm not sure that such function will suite to your needs but if you need something else just describe your case and I'll help you to create that function.

[atykhonov]

Please try that function.

Surely it will save much time if you can give a option to make it automatically.

I believe you can modify acticle-hook on which some function will be called and pass the text to the mentioned function. Please try and let me know. If something will be wrong, sure I'll be ready to help.

[llcc]

Hi @atykhonov,

This function really fulfills my need, but it seems that it is really not a good way to listen to the whole article one time. I think it is best to listen a paragraph a time.

Thanks you a lot for your help.

llcc