Translating Hinglish into English with Google Translate Api

[Billy Zhao]

Hindi sentences on the online forums are nowadays more frequently written in Hinglish which takes the sound of Hindi and writing it in English Alphabet. With google translate apps and web apps, there is a neat feature where it automatically recognises Hinglish as Hindi and translates in English as seen in the screenshot attached.

The same behaviour is not replicated with Google Translate API when I try to translate Hinglish into English. How can I set up the api call in this case to replicate the behaviour that I get from the app or in the web browser?

#try out google translate api

# Imports the Google Cloud client library

from google.cloud import translate

# Instantiates a client

translate_client = translate.Client.from_service_account_json('/Users/billyzhaoyh/Downloads/SnehAItranslate-b7fa3e686978.json')

# The text to translate

text = u'Mujhe app bahat aachi lagteho mem or me aap ka me kuchh bhai karsakti hu dekta hu mujhe bahat achha lagata he'

# The target language

target = 'en'

# The source language

source = 'hi'

# Translates some text into Russian

translation = translate_client.translate(

    text,

    target_language=target,source_language=source)

print(u'Text: {}'.format(text))

print(u'Translation: {}'.format(translation['translatedText']))

the output is currently: Text: Mujhe app bahat aachi lagteho mem or me aap ka me kuchh bhai karsakti hu dekta hu mujhe bahat achha lagata he

Translation: Mujhe app bahat aachi lagteho mem or me aap ka me kuchh bhai karsakti hu dekta hu mujhe bahat achha lagata he

[Yingjie He]

Hi Billy,

Currently we don't support transliteration yet, Cloud Translation API is a little different from google translate apps and web apps, we will consider it as a feature request.

Thanks very much.

[Trudeau Fernandes]

Is this support/feature for hinglish to english translation added or available now?

https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=<API KEY>

{
"q": "Tera naam kya hai",
"target": "en"
}

Returns me a response:

{
"data": {
"translations": [
{
"translatedText": "Tera naam kya hai",
"detectedSourceLanguage": "hi"
}
]
}
}

The source language is getting correctly detected... however its not getting translated to the desired target language.

I even tried giving the source as "hi", but it still does not do the translation.

However if the API is passed with the hindi script the translation works correctly:

{
"q":"तेरा नाम क्या है",
"target": "en"
}

Response we get is:

{
"data": {
"translations": [
{
"translatedText": "What is your name",
"detectedSourceLanguage": "hi"
}
]
}
}