[Feature Request] Add 'Sentence Translation' field about vocabsieve HOT 2 CLOSED

I considered doing this, though I'm not that sure how useful this would be, and there are a few issues with it.

• If this is needed for the sentence on the card to be understood even with the definition, you should probably not be using the sentence in the first place (too hard)
• If it is not needed, then it just adds to the stuff you have to read on the card, slowing down reviews
• Google translation accuracy is not always that good
• It will clutter up the interface a bit more
• Making even more API calls will slow the workflow down until I garner up the effort to make async stuff work

I might still add a way of viewing the sentence translation though -- maybe as a view only field (not exported to Anki, but you can copy the text to definition if need be)

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I personally would find such feature useful, here's a few thoughts why:

• I've noticed that you treat the words as IDs (meaning it's not possible to create 2 cards with the same word) but I've found it useful to translate sentences as well. Sometimes I'd know all the words but wouldn't be able to translate the sentence as a whole, so a sentence translation comes in useful here
• I guess this applies more when starting out but when I'm still not very confident with the language, sentence translations allow me to verify that I understood all the words correctly / my assumptions are valid (I find that I forget basic words months after learning them)
• I've already been doing this by including the subtitles together with the image but a more official approach would still be welcome (eg if subtitles are not available)

A couple of other considerations re: implementation:

• You can use deepl instead of google translate which will provide higher quality translations

If you want this feature request to be minimally intrusive, I can think of:

• Having an enable automatic sentence translation toggle in the options which will:
  • Add a new editable input on the main window as mentioned in the original post
• This will be saved to a separate field in the Anki template, and you can hide the field in the template if its value is blank:

{{#SentenceTranlation}}
{{SentenceTranlation}}
{{/SentenceTranlation}}

So you can still have only 1 template and the user won't be bothered by the new field if they haven't checked the option above

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