Improve speech recognition in Assistant: multi lingual

Thibaultmol

Currently the speech recog is english only. It would be nice if it supported other languages, ideally without having to select it. (i understand whatever api call you're doing or something to do speech recog will be more intense/expensive to have multi lingual auto detect. but maybe it should be a setting then for multi lingual people and/or default language stuff

Hanbyeol

Sorry if I'm missing something here, but I think Kagi already supports languages other than English.

Below is a recording from my phone:
I ask "Where is the largest city in Alaska?" in Korean. (Note the flashing microphone icon)
The assistant answers "Anchorage" and the second largest is "Juneau".

Thibaultmol

hmm weird. I don't know what they're using for speech reg, if they're using the built in system. That doesn't seem to support dutch somehow.... so guess that's what's going on. You probably have Korean installed if you go to
System settings -> languages -> on-device recognition -> voice input -> add a language

Hanbyeol

Thibaultmol

Yes, Google's speech recognition does support Korean.
At first I thought Kagi was using the OS's default speech recognition, but I wasn't sure, so I deleted it from my first reply.
In this screenshot, Korean appears below English.

Hanbyeol

I'm a little surprised that Google doesn't support Dutch, since it's spoken not only in the Netherlands, but also in Belgium.

Even on my phone, I only see "Deutsch" locales in the "D" part and no "N" for "Nederlands/Netherlands" at all.
(Edit - Google even considers the German-speaking population of Belgium, which I thought was not very large compared to the DACH countries?)