I am using Google Translation Advanced using Golang Client. I see that the input param, SourceLanguageCode is optional. I have confirmed that if we don't pass the SourceLanguageCode, the API still returns the result as expected. But when I don't pass the SourceLanguageCode, does the API call get charged both for Language Detection and Translation?
I looked at the Pricing page and this part is not described clearly: https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing
I have an option of finding the SourceLanguageCode from a different library, so I would pass the SourceLanguageCode as an input param if Google Translate charges me twice the amount for every API call if that is not passed.
But, if Google Translate doesn't charge for Language Detection separately for Translation, I would rather let Google decide the source language automatically.
For reference, this is how I am getting the translatedText and detectedLanguage from the Golang client:
Package: https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/genproto#v0.0.0-20210813162853-db860fec028c/googleapis/cloud/translate/v3?utm_source=gopls#Translation
Example: https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/advanced/translating-text-v3#translating_input_strings
My code:
for _, translation := range resp.GetTranslations() {
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Translated text: %v\n", translation.GetTranslatedText())
fmt.Fprintf(w, "Detected language: %v\n", translation.DetectedLanguageCode())
}
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
The pricing link answers the question that we will be only charged once even if we don't specify the source language: https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing
You are only charged for the text that you provided; there's no
additional charge for the detection in addition to the translation.
For example, if you submit 1,000 characters for translation without
specifying the source language, you are only charged for the 1,000
characters.
Related
When using the Google Translate API, it just returns one translation for a given word. For example, when I let it translate the English word "hide" to Italian, it just responds with "nascondere".
However, Google Translate on the web offers much more: they don't just show one translation (or list of possible translations), but also the frequency as well as the precise meaning of a specific translation:
I'd like to get these results via an API.
Is there a public API that offers the same results?
Of course, I could just use the endpoint /translate_a/single that is used by the Google Translate website. But this endpoint does not include an API key, so if I send too many requests, they will most likely block me.
Also, the endpoint /translate_a/single returns many fields of which I do not know the precise meaning, so its usage would most likely involve some reverse engineering.
It's important for me to identify, is a word verified.
What I mean
This does not appear to be available. If you check the docs for the body of a response to the API's translate method, there's no field indicating that the translation is checked by the Community (which is what this little badge next to the translated text implies).
Issue Description
I use cognitive services TranslateArray to translate my users comments. One of the advantages of this service is that we can use ProfanityAction to mark every profane words in the destination language. I also make use of the automatic language detection, so that I do not have to identify the content before sending it in.
When I get my translation back for a destination language which match the source language, the profanity is not marked. Is there another endpoint I could/should hit, or a parameter I do not know about, or is there a possible improvement of the service ?
Corresponding Documentation
Follow the cognitive service protocol to hit the TranslateArray endpoint, with an english sentence containing profanities, with the ProfanityAction: Marked behavior: http://docs.microsofttranslator.com/text-translate.html#!/default/post_TranslateArray
Reproduction Steps
Send an English sentence with profanities
Translate to fr, notice correctly marked profanities
Translate to en, notice the missing profanities tag
Expected Behavior
Profanities should be marked even if no translation occured.
Actual Results
I obtained the unmodified sentence back.
There is nothing in the documentation that specifies what happens if the source and target language are the same. My guess is that if it sees that they match it will do nothing.
However, there is a specific API that detects profanity for any given language: Content Moderation for Text. The API docs are here.
The Text - Screen function does it all – scans the incoming text (maximum 1024 characters) for profanity, autocorrects text, and extracts Personally Identifiable Information (PII), all while matching against custom lists of terms.
Your observation that Translator API does nothing if source and target languages are the same, is correct. Not an answer, just clarification.
say that I have images and I want to generate labels for them in Spanish - does the Google Cloud Vision API allow to select which language to return the labels in?
Label Detection
Google Cloud Vision APIs do not allow configuring the result language for label detection. You will need to use a different API like Cloud Translation API to perform that operation instead.
OCR (Text detection)
If you're interested in text detection in your image, Google Cloud Vision APIs support Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with automatic language detection in a broad set of languages listed here.
For TEXT_DETECTION and DOCUMENT_TEXT_DETECTION requests, you can provide languageHints parameter in the request to get better results for certain cases where the language is unknown and/or not easily detectable.
languageHints[]
string
List of languages to use for TEXT_DETECTION. In most cases, an empty
value yields the best results since it enables automatic language
detection. For languages based on the Latin alphabet, setting
languageHints is not needed. In rare cases, when the language of the
text in the image is known, setting a hint will help get better
results (although it will be a significant hindrance if the hint is
wrong). Text detection returns an error if one or more of the
specified languages is not one of the supported languages.
The DetectedLanguage information is available in the request to identify the language along with a confidence value.
Detected language for a structural component.
JSON representation
{
"languageCode": string,
"confidence": number,
}
I want to know if there is any api that can allow me to get the number of reviews from an url.
I know that google offers the possibility to get this number by using the placeid, but the only information I have is the url of the website of a company.
Any ideas please?
Maybe, but probably not.
Places API Text Search seems to be able to find places by their URL:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?key=YOURKEY&query=http://www.starbucks.com/store/1014527/us/303-congress-street/303-congress-street-boston-ma-02210
However, this is not a documented feature of the API and I do not think this can be relied upon, so I'd recommend filing a feature request, to make this a supported, reliable feature.
As for the amount of reviews, you may be interested in:
Issue 3484: Add # of reviews to the Place Details Results
I've written an API like this for Reviewsmaker, but I target specific business names not URLs. See this example (I activated a key for this purpose for now):
http://reviewsmaker.com/api/google/?business=life%20made%20a%20little%20easier&api_key=4a2819f3-2874-4eee-9c46-baa7fa17971c
Or, try yourself with any business name:
http://reviewsmaker.com/api/google/?business=Toys R Us&api_key=4a2819f3-2874-4eee-9c46-baa7fa17971c
The following call would return a JSON object which shows:
{
"results":{
"business_name":"Life Made A Little Easier",
"business_address":"1702 Sheepshead Bay Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA",
"place_id":"ChIJ_xjIR2REwokRH2qEigdFCvs",
"review_count":38
},
"api":{
"author":"Ilan Patao",
"home":"www.reviewsmaker.com"
}
}
Pinging this EP using a Chronjob for example once every hour or two and return the review_count can pretty much build your own review monitoring app;
You can probably do what you're looking for if you query the Places API Text Search or the CSE (Custom Search Engine) API to lookup the URL, return back the matching name of the business associated with this URL and calling an endpoint like this one to return back the associated review count.
You can probably code this in py or PHP. Not sure how familiar you are with data parsing, but I was able to build my API based on Google's CSE API. CSE provides metadata in its results which contain the total reviews, so if you create a CSE engine and use the CSE API looking for business schemas, review schemas, etc; you can return back items and within the PageMap node there are objects with data that you need very little tweaking to do (such as string replacing, trimming) which will return back the values you're looking for.
Hope my answer helped, at least to lead you in the right direction :)