Translate Text is Wrong

[Ty Chan]

Translate from Chinese Simplified to English below :

translate_text('打网页不开') 

I got :

Translation: Can't open the webpage

When using Google Translate website, I got :

Translation: Can't open the webpage

Below is my code:

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import six

import os

os.environ['GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS'] = r"/Users/chanty/Desktop/Google_Text_Translation/testing1-314006-feb3316110eb.json"

from google.cloud import translate_v2 as translate

translate_client = translate.Client()

def translate_text(text):

if isinstance(text, six.binary_type):

text = text.decode("utf-8")

if translate_client.detect_language(text)['language'] == 'zh-CN':

target = 'en'

elif translate_client.detect_language(text)['language'] == 'en':

target = 'zh-CN'

else:

target = 'en'

result = translate_client.translate(text, target_language=target,model='nmt')

print(u"Text: {}".format(result["input"]))

text = result['translateText'].decode("utf-8")

print(text)

print(u"Translation: {}".format(result["translatedText"]))

print(u"Detected source language: {}".format(result["detectedSourceLanguage"]))

return result["translatedText"]

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Any idea to fix it ?

[Yingjie He]

Hi,

Could you try to unescape "'" ?

[Felix (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello,

I tried to reproduce your case through the shell and I got the same result. To fix it, I specified an extra parameter [1] when calling `translate_client`. Specifically, "format" should be set to “text”. Otherwise it is defaulted to “html”. 

If you have the gcloud SDK installed, you can check the outputs setting the field as “html” or “text”, respectively, in [2] and [3].

Best regards,

Felix L. 

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[1] https://googleapis.dev/python/translation/latest/client.html#google.cloud.translate_v2.client.Client.translate

[2] curl -H"Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" 'https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?target=en&source=zh-CN&model=nmt&q=打网页不开&format=html'

[3] curl -H"Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" 'https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?target=en&source=zh-CN&model=nmt&q=打网页不开&format=text'

[Ty Chan]

it is fixed. thanks

[Neculai I. Fantanaru]

hi, Chan.. if you fixed the code, can you please share the new code that really works?

[Ty Chan]

Here is the code that fixed my problem.

translate_client.translate(text, target_language='en', format_='text')