docs/ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

Goal: a public app that translates speech in any video, link or book — all languages, dialects and eventually ancient languages — on our own models.

v0.1 (now)

• Link or upload → auto-detect → translate → transcript, subtitles, voice-over
• 108 target languages; offline NLLB model by default
• Optional Claude (quality) and ElevenLabs (realistic voice)
• "Request a language" form (saved to data/language_requests.jsonl)

Next

• Speaker detection — separate voices per speaker (male/female) automatically
• Voice that matches the speaker's tone — only with the speaker's consent
• Lip-timed dubbing — stretch/compress lines to mouth movement
• Live mode — translate a stream or call in near real time
• Browser extension — translate any video on the page you're watching
• Books & photos of pages — OCR → translate → read aloud

Own models / dialects (Lao & Isan first)

• Collect Lao and Isan audio + text (with permission) → fine-tune Whisper so Lao isn't confused with Thai
• Fine-tune NLLB on Lao↔English pairs from textbooks
• Community review: native-speaker voting + paid reviewers + automatic quality checks
• Turn language requests into a data-collection queue (Hawaiian, Native American languages, etc.)

Going public

• Accounts, usage limits, payments
• GPU server (one GPU ≈ 20× faster than a laptop)
• Storage cleanup, abuse/copyright policy, consent rules for voice