How to use Autodetect language in speech translation using javascript SDK.

Question

Is Autodetect language feature available in speech translation for javascript SDK? If it is available can you help me with entire code and steps on how to configure and run it so that instead of mentioning my source language it will automatically detects the language and translate it to my target language.

Answer 1

Hello @Alex , Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A Platform.

Language identification (LID) with Speech translation can be used when you need to identify the language in an audio source and then translate it to another language.

Have you tried, Speech translation with language identification? This is only supported with Speech SDKs in C#, C++, JavaScript, and Python.

Otherwise, to identify one of multiple languages that might be spoken you can use the AutoDetectSourceLanguageConfig object: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/language-identification?tabs=once&pivots=programming-language-javascript#candidate-languages

var autoDetectSourceLanguageConfig = SpeechSDK.AutoDetectSourceLanguageConfig.fromLanguages([("en-US", "de-DE", "zh-CN"]);