add mode to automatically detect english words and phrases

[treaki]

when i listen to espeak in my native language i have much often the problem that the textes i listen to contain english words and sentences. that dosnt sound very grate, so could you add a mode that would access the system dictionary (aspell,ispell and how they are named) and check if words are not included inside the dictionary of the reading language but in the english dictornary and read them in english then. Also detect quotes (by quoting signs, points and paragraphs)/english sentences (where more than x percent are found in english dictonary but not the reading language) and then are read completely in english.

thanks

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[valdisvi]

If writing system of your native language is not Latin, you can add rules to switch to English, when Latin character is found. Look more in documentation. Examples for some languages:

• [Latvian (Latin script) to Russian (Cyrillic sript)](https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/dictsource/lv_rules#L1742]
• [Farsi (Arabic script) to English (Latin script)[https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/dictsource/fa_rules#L5904] If writing system is the same, only option is to switch language for whole words, for example, in Sweden.