[dba-VB] Google Translate API

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Fri Feb 17 03:27:10 CST 2012


Hi Mark --

Yes, your idea with first trying uppercase and if the words will not get translated then make them converted to lower case and try again should work, but:

- it will cost me some more bucks -and  I do not know how many;
- it may happen translations will be still partial if for upper cased words some of words will be translated and some will not...

Anyway - I should just try it using KISS principle I mean:

- just run translations for all 800,000 chars;
- apply proposed by you conversion to lower case of the words, which will not get translated at all when upper cased.

Then report to Google that their translation service is great or not so great - in the latter case claim back from Google my bucks spent on second try translations of lower cased words :)

I will report on my results within a week or so - the translation work isn't for money, and I first have to finish a customer project...

Any wild guesses there how much times I will have to make second try translations?
There are 798,844 chars to translate (including blanks) constituting 13,094 sentence (words' groups) , well I have just checked for dups - in fact there are 9,283 unique sentences and 418,284 chars....

Thank you.

-- Shamil


17 февраля 2012, 12:53 от Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com>:
> Hi Shamil,
> 
> And will you keep them as lower case?
> 
> Is it possible to do it as two passes and after it fails, retry the fails
> as lower case?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 16 February 2012 13:50, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All --
> >
> > JFYI: I have tried to use .NET Google Translate API today (
> > http://code.google.com/p/google-api-dotnet-client/wiki/Setup) and it
> > worked rather well - rather well because it somehow failed to translate
> > words "Event Viewer" into Russian but translated them well into French. And
> > http://translate.google.com/ is able to translate words "Event Viewer"
> > well into Russian...
> >
> > Google Translate API also translated well lowcased words "event viewer"
> > into Russian.
> >
> > Google Translate API is a paid service - USD20 for 1 million translated
> > chars - so to not waste money (I need to translate about 800,000 chars) I'd
> > probably need to submit only lowcased words to Google Translation API. We
> > will see.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -- Shamil
> >
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