Python Detect and Translate language

The internet is flooded with articles and posts for translating the language using Machine Learning or Deep Learning LSTM models and building a deep neural network for developing your own Translation model. However, if you are not interested in coding then we have google as one of the prominent leader in providing the translation service from any known language in world to another. But yes that comes with a cost if you are using it for commercial purpose or huge data to translate

In this post we are going to see how [Textblob](https://textblob.readthedocs.io/en/dev/#) - A python library for text processing and mainly used for natural language processing tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, classification, translation, and more that can be used to detect and translate a language. Later on, We will also explore the python google translate package for translating the text

Install Textblob

pip install -U textblob

Detect Language

Hindi Text Detection

The language we are detecting here is Hindi, which is the 4th largest spoken language in the world. The output is the abbreviation for Hindi i.e. hi

from textblob import TextBlob
hi_blob = TextBlob(u'तुम्हारा नाम क्या है')
hi_blob.detect_language()

Output: ‘hi’

German Text Detection

de_blob = TextBlob(u"Maschinelles Lernen ist ein interessantes Thema zum Lernen")
de_blob.detect_language()

Output: ‘de’

Translate Language

Translate Hindi text to English

This is the same hindi text we detected above

hi_blob.translate(to='en')

Output: TextBlob(“what is your name”)

Translate German to English

de_blob.translate(to='en')

Output: TextBlob(“Machine learning is an interesting topic for learning”)

Translate German to French

de_blob.translate(to='fr')

Output: TextBlob(“L’apprentissage automatique est un sujet d’apprentissage intéressant”)

Translate German to Arabic

de_blob.translate(to='ar')

Output: TextBlob(“التعلم الآلي هو موضوع مثير للاهتمام للتعلم”)

Translate German to Hindi

de_blob.translate(to='hi')

Output: TextBlob(“मशीन लर्निंग, सीखने का एक दिलचस्प विषय है”)

Note: The TextBlob output can be treated as a Python String

Google Translate

It’s a free and unlimited to use python library that implements Google Translate API’s. It has two powerful methods detect and translate which uses Google Translate AJAX API

Installation

pip install googletrans

Translate Hindi to English

from googletrans import Translator
translator = Translator()
print(translator.translate(u'तुम्हारा नाम क्या है'))

Output: Translated(src=hi, dest=en, text=what is your name, pronunciation=None, extra_data=”{‘translat…”)

Translate Arabic to English

The dest parameter is used to specify the language to translate, which is English(en) here

print(translator.translate(u'التعلم الآلي هو موضوع مثير للاهتمام للتعلم', dest='en'))

Output: Translated(src=ar, dest=en, text=Automated learning is interesting to learn the subject, pronunciation=None, extra_data=”{‘translat…”)

Even you can just specify the src parameter - Text language and it will translate that to English by default

print(translator.translate(u'التعلم الآلي هو موضوع مثير للاهتمام للتعلم', src='ar'))

Output: Translated(src=ar, dest=en, text=Automated learning is interesting to learn the subject, pronunciation=None, extra_data=”{‘translat…”)

Detect Language

translator = Translator()
print(translator.detect("Les livres sont les meilleurs amis de l'homme"))

Output: Detected(lang=fr, confidence=1.0)

Language detected is French and the confidence score is 1 i.e. 100%

Translate List of Sentences

English to Hindi

translations = translator.translate(['what is your Name', 'how old are you', 'Boston weather is good'], dest='hi')

for translation in translations:
    print(translation.origin, ' -> ', translation.text)

Output:

what is your Name -> तुम्हारा नाम क्या हे how old are you -> आपकी उम्र क्या है Boston weather is good -> बोस्टन मौसम अच्छा है