# 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)
- [x] Link or upload → auto-detect → translate → transcript, subtitles, voice-over
- [x] 108 target languages; offline NLLB model by default
- [x] Optional Claude (quality) and ElevenLabs (realistic voice)
- [x] "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