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> 「んー……駄目だねこりゃ。<囁告篇帙>自体は情報を検索してるっぽいんだけど、それをあたしに伝える機能が死んでる **っていうのかな** 。……」

The speaker was talking to herself. I’m not sure why っていうの is used here.
Usually というのか signifies a rhetorical question meaning “Are you saying ...”
(which doesn’t fit in the context) and it seems feasible to just say かな in
this sentence.

Could you please explain this っていうのかな?
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Understanding っていうのかな
Yes, 「というのか」usually marks a rhetorical question, but here the sentence ending
particle (終助詞) is not 「か」「の」or「だ」. It is a compound (連語) of two particles
「か」「な」. 「かな」is a word all its own, usually translating as "I wonder".
「かな」shouldn't be confused with 「か」.

It makes sense the speaker uses かな in her monologue, much as how people say "I
wonder" talking to themselves, with or without listeners. 「って」is a
colloquialized 「と」. 「の」is a nominalizer. Nominalization is really common in
Japanese. I would interpret this「っていうのかな」as summarizing what's before it and
then expressing something like "that thing, hmm..." or "just like that..." In
fact, if I were to translate this sentence I don't think I would translate
that part, at least not as a sentence ending. I would probably use phrases
such as "I heard..." or "the feeling that" to convey the hesitation and
indirectness.
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