Roadmap

3.0

Future version of Dialect focused on local-first features.

• Implement a single async providers API for online/offline, so UI code can be simpler.

  Libsoup or threading will be an implementation detail of each provider. We will still provide helper classes that providers can derive from like SoupProvider and LocalProvider.

• Implement an offline translation provider

  • Bergamot
  • Opus MT

• Implement a offline TTS provider

  • Coqui TTS

Blockers

• Dialect will enter unexpected state if a provider has 1 or none languages.

  We should have an error screen for online providers and a setup screen for offline providers so the user can start downloading models.

  Alternatively we can download models on demand and show all the possible languages as we already do.

• Dialect does not support divergent source/destination languages nor detonations languages dependent of the selected source one.

  When using translations models, translation direction can be more complex, we need to accommodate.

Potential Future Versions

• Dictionary definitions

• Document translation

  Make our own implementation so it works with all the services or only support services that provide this feature.

• Offline translation

• Scraping engine

• Image (OCR) translation