Uh, no? This is not at all an absurd requirement? Screen readers literally do this all the time, with voices that are the classic way of making a speech synthesizer, no AI required. ESpeak is an example, or MS OneCore. The NVDA screen reader has an option for automatic language switching as does pretty much every other modern screen reader in existence. And absolutely none of these use AI models to do that switching, either.

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kube-system 3 hours ago | parent [-]

They didn’t say it was a crazy requirement. They said it was crazy to consider it useless without meeting that requirement.

	▲	ethin 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That doesn't really change what I said though. It isn't crazy to call it useless without some form of ALS either. Given that old school synthesis has been able to do it for like 20 years or so.