AI-generated Key Takeaways
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ML Kit's language identification API allows you to determine the language of a text string, which is particularly helpful when dealing with user-generated content that often lacks language information.
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It supports a wide range of languages, including romanized versions of Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese text.
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The API can provide a simple language identification or a confidence distribution across multiple languages for a given text.
With ML Kit's on-device language identification API, you can determine the language of a string of text.
Language identification can be useful when working with user-provided text, which often doesn't come with any language information.
Key capabilities
Broad language support. Identifies over one hundred different languages. See the complete list.
Romanized text support. Identifies Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese text in both native and romanized script.
Example results
| Simple language identification | |
|---|---|
| "My hovercraft is full of eels." | en (English) |
| "Dao shan xue hai" | zh-Latn (Latinized Chinese) |
| "ph'nglui mglw'nafh wgah'nagl fhtagn" | und (undetermined) |
| Confidence distribution | |
|---|---|
| "an amicable coup d'etat" |
en (0.52)fr (0.44)ca (0.03)
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