Create a translator

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

I would like to create a translator. However, I made some searches and I don’t know where I could find the content (for the translations)…

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks in advance for your replies

#2

Can you provide a better description of what you’re trying to accomplish? 

Rob

#3

I would like to be able to write a word and then translate it to another language and add some functionalities I did not find in other apps.

I hope that’s enough

#4

Doing translations like this is going to be very, very difficult. Not so much on the Corona side, but getting the data to do the translation. Even with all of Google’s resources, their translation service is still prone to frequent errors.  Also in different languages context matters and the fewer words you have to translate, the more prone to error it will become.  Some single words may translate to a whole phrase. Some words will have multiple translations depending on how you’re using the word.

Maybe someone in the community will have better device, but you’re in a a big challenge to do the translations. Google may have a service that you can use network.request() to do a translation for you.

Rob

#5

Thank you very much for your reply.

I suspected that it would be very hard to accomplish.

I was thinking of something like a json file with translations (like a dictionnary english/ german or anything else for source).

I’m a bit sad as I thought I had some good ideas to implement.

#6

Google translate is a great and with all their resources and AI behind it by far the best.  Don’t waste your time trying to compete.

But Rob is correct, even as good as Google is, a profession translation by native speakers will always be better.  Context is everything in translation.

#7

You could use Google and Microsoft’s translation API’s if that’s what you want, check out https://cloud.google.com/translate/ and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator/translatorapi.aspx

There’s even an interesting article here about translation APIs to read: https://www.smartling.com/translation-software/translation-api/

Don’t let difficulty stop you - try something out and see how it goes - and even if it doesn’t work out, you probably learnt something in the process. 

#8

Can you provide a better description of what you’re trying to accomplish? 

Rob

#9

I would like to be able to write a word and then translate it to another language and add some functionalities I did not find in other apps.

I hope that’s enough

#10

Doing translations like this is going to be very, very difficult. Not so much on the Corona side, but getting the data to do the translation. Even with all of Google’s resources, their translation service is still prone to frequent errors.  Also in different languages context matters and the fewer words you have to translate, the more prone to error it will become.  Some single words may translate to a whole phrase. Some words will have multiple translations depending on how you’re using the word.

Maybe someone in the community will have better device, but you’re in a a big challenge to do the translations. Google may have a service that you can use network.request() to do a translation for you.

Rob

#11

Thank you very much for your reply.

I suspected that it would be very hard to accomplish.

I was thinking of something like a json file with translations (like a dictionnary english/ german or anything else for source).

I’m a bit sad as I thought I had some good ideas to implement.

#12

Google translate is a great and with all their resources and AI behind it by far the best.  Don’t waste your time trying to compete.

But Rob is correct, even as good as Google is, a profession translation by native speakers will always be better.  Context is everything in translation.

#13

You could use Google and Microsoft’s translation API’s if that’s what you want, check out https://cloud.google.com/translate/ and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator/translatorapi.aspx

There’s even an interesting article here about translation APIs to read: https://www.smartling.com/translation-software/translation-api/

Don’t let difficulty stop you - try something out and see how it goes - and even if it doesn’t work out, you probably learnt something in the process.