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I think it would also be helpful if it could pronounce or vocalize specific words you click on to learn the definition of, if not entirely transcribe the subtitled text in another language.

Keep up the good work, cool idea.

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Thanks for the feedback! It is possible to use an external dictionary tool to speak via the clipboard, but it seems difficult to support many languages. It would be easy to implement using Microsoft UWP speech API, but there may be quality issues.

I will research if there is a good quality playback method locally, Thanks.

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