Translator Issue

[Sai Babu]

Hello every one,

     I found an issue in Yandex Translator in MIT App-inventor 2.It doesn't translate from English to Indian languages (like Hindi,Tamil,Telugu etc....).when I try to translate , It shows error 2202 . I use language codes to translate one language to another language .Why it shows that error? 

[SteveJG]

It appears Yandex does not yet support those languages perhaps  Error 2202 is frequently used when a user name (perhaps language code) is invalid.

Some of the Yandex language codes from

http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=1444.0 are:

Yandex Country Codes unofficial

ar =Arabic

az =Azerbaijani

be =Belarusian

fr =French

he =Hebrew

hr =Croatian

nl =Dutch

no =Norwegian

pl =Polish

bg =Bulgarian

bs =Bosnian

ca =Catalan

cs =Czech

da =Danish

de =German

el =Greek

en =English

es =Spanish

et =Estonian

fi =Finnish

hu =Hungarian

hy =Armenian

id =Indonesian

is =Icelandic

it =Italian

ka =Georgian

lt =Lithuanian

lv =Latvian

mk =Macedonian

ms =Malay

mt =Maltese

pt =Portuguese

ro =Romanian

ru =Russian

sk =Slovak

sl =Slovenian

sq =Albanian

sr =Serbian

sv =Swedish

tr =Turkish

uk =Ukrainian

vi =Vietnamese

zh =Chinese

unless  Hindi,Tamil,Telugu were added since this tutorial was written 

Poor Richard…an AI2 Multilingual Tip of Day app and Tutorial using TTS and Yandex Translate

Where are you getting information that Hindi,Tamil,Telugu are among Yandex supported languages Sai?

Regards,

Steve

[SteveJG]

Please keep the conversation in the forum Sai.  Thank you.

You eMailed   In that case how i translate indian(Hindi,Tamil,Telugu) languages using yandex translator ? please give solution for this...

Translating an app to multiple languages is not difficult, see the tutorial here  

Polyglot … a multilingual tutorial for App Inventor 2

            . The technique involves in the developer providing translations for every component, label and text in the app.

If a language is not in Yandex's lexicon, you may have to use that method.     I know of no other translation scheme that can be used with App Inventor2, perhaps another user will provide specific advice.

If you want automatic translation of all text, that might not be possible with App Inventor for the languages you are interested in.   A possibility might be to use the ActivityStarter and point to the Google Translate page  https://www.google.com/search?q=google+translate&oq=google+translate&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.3311j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8... awkward but this could  work for you.  Also you might use AI2 in conjunction with  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en  

This article shows which languages are supported by Google Translate  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate.   I think Hindi,Tamil,Telugu are included.

Edit:  I just found the  'official' list of supported Yandex languages --     https://help.yandex.com/webmaster/robot-workings/supported-languages.xml    .  This updated list shows you cannot use Yandex to do what you want to do.

Regards,

Steve