# manylives.me Language Detection

> manylives.me Language Detection is a paid API for AI agents from manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Detects the language of a given text, returning the ISO language code, full language name, writing script, and a confidence score.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://manylives.me/paid/text/language?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-me-language-detection-87854957
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DjzndXOfTL7JjRVlG0s34

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability manylives-me-language-detection-87854957 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What language is this text written in, and what's the confidence level? '¿Dónde está la estación de tren?'

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need lightweight, fast language identification with ISO codes, script information, and a confidence score in a single structured JSON response — especially useful for pre-processing pipelines before translation, routing multilingual content, or filtering user-generated text by language. It supports up to 20,000 characters per call at a low fixed cost per request.

## Known failure modes

- Text too short or ambiguous — low confidence score returned, language may be incorrect
- Text exceeds 20,000 character limit — request rejected
- Empty or whitespace-only text — may return error or very low confidence result
- Mixed-language input — detection may reflect dominant language only
- Rare or minority languages may not be recognized, returning a closest-match with low confidence

## How this service works

Detect the language of a text: ISO code, language name, script, and confidence.

## Output

A JSON object containing: 'code' (ISO 639-1 language code, e.g. 'es'), 'language' (full language name, e.g. 'Spanish'), 'script' (writing system, e.g. 'Latin'), and 'confidence' (a float between 0 and 1 indicating detection certainty).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "text": {
   "type": "string",
   "examples": [
    "¿Dónde está la estación de tren?"
   ],
   "description": "the text (required, max 20,000 chars)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "code": "es",
  "script": "Latin",
  "language": "Spanish",
  "confidence": 0.98
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-me-language-detection-87854957/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from manylives.me](https://www.zero.xyz/host/manylives.me/llms.txt)