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LanguageDetector: expectedInputLanguages property

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The expectedInputLanguages read-only property of the LanguageDetector interface returns the expected languages to be detected in the input text. Specifying expected input languages helps improve the accuracy of the language detection.

A LanguageDetector instance’s expectedInputLanguages are set when creating it via a create() call.

Value

An array of strings specifying the expected input languages. These will be valid BCP 47 language tags.

Examples

const detector = await LanguageDetector.create({
  expectedInputLanguages: ["en-US", "zh"],
});

// Logs ["en-US", "zh"]
console.log(detector.expectedInputLanguages);

Specifications

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