How to Translate Text in Python | Text Translation

TEXT TRANSLATION – In this tutorial, you learn how to translate text from one language to another language (python text translator) using best python translation library with python programming examples.

• Process of translating text from one language into another language that is called as text translation
• Python provides several libraries for text translations. They are
  • googletrans (Google)
  • translate (Microsoft)
  • textblob
  • goslate
  • Py-translate

I. IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXT TRANSLATION USING MICROSOFT TRANSLATE 

REQUIRED MODULE

IMPORTANT CLASSES

1. Translator

• It is a built-in class which takes two arguments. 
• It returns an object for the translator

IMPORTANT METHODS

1. translate()

• It is a built-in instance method
• It takes only one argument which is string
• Return type: str

OPTIONS

1. from_lang

• This option is used to set the source language which is string

2. to_lang

• This option is used to set the target language which is string.

I. TRANSLATE APP

       Module used                  : translate (Microsoft Provider)

       Filename                        : Translate.py

       Command to install        : pip install translate

1. SOURCE CODE

# import the translate module

from translate import *

source_language=”english”

target_language=”german”

input_text=”Good Morning”

inp=Translator(from_lang=source_language, to_lang=target_language)

# translate process and print the result

res=inp.translate(input_text)

print(“—————————————“)

print(“\tTranslator App”)

print(“—————————————“)

print(source_language,”:”,input_text)

print(target_language,”:”,res)

print(“—————————————“)

2.1 INSTALLING TRANSLATE MODULE VIA PIP COMMAND

2.2 INSTALLING TRANSLATE MODULE VIA PIP COMMAND (-Continue)

3. OUTPUT

II. IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXT TRANSLATION USING TEXTBLOB

REQUIRED MODULE

• It is a built-in python library which is used for processing textual data.

IMPORTANT CLASSES

1. Textblob

• It is a built-in class which takes one argument 

• It returns an object for the textblob class

IMPORTANT METHODS

1. translate()

• It is a built-in instance method
• It takes only one argument which is string
• Return type: str

2. detect_language()

• It is a built-in instance method
• It is used to automatically detect the language of the sentence in the input
• Return Type: str

IMPORTANT ARGUMENTS

1. to

• This argument is used to set the target language which is string
• It can be like this
  • English ‘en’
  • Hindi ‘hi’
  • French ‘fr’
  • Spanish ‘es’
  • Bengali ‘bn’. 

II. TRANSLATE APP

       Module used                   : textblob

       Filename                         : translate_textblob.py

       Command to install        : pip install textblob

1. SOURCE CODE

# import the textblob module

2. INSTALLING TEXTBLOB MODULE VIA PIP COMMAND

3. OUTPUT

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