Translating text from one language to another using python

The definition of a translator is a person who helps people who speak different languages to communicate or who take something (such as a speech or a book) in one language and who puts it into a different language for people to understand. This functionality can be achieved using the googletrans module in python.

googletrans module

    The googletrans module is one of the fast and flexible libraries in python that implements Google Translate API, to detect the language of text automatically and to convert text from one language to another. By default, all the languages are translated to English.

Installation

    This module can be installed by using,

            pip install googletrans

    googletrans can be used after installation and importation of the module

            import googletrans or 

            from googletrans import Translator

Built-in functions inside googletrans module

    To look for built-in functions inside the googletrans module, use the command as

            dir(googletrans)

Languages supported by googletrans module

    To view the list of languages supported by the googletrans module, use the command as,

              print(googletrans.LANGUAGES)

Detecting language of the text

    The native language of the text can be detected using detect(text) in the googletrans module.

• Follow the code snippet on detecting the native language of the text,

# import statementimport googletrans # object instantiation for Translator trans = googletrans.Translator() # detect() , detects the language of text passed inside as argumentsdetecting_lang = trans.detect("omnia vincit amor") print(detecting_lang)# output: Detected(lang=la, confidence=1.0)

    In the above code snippet, the detect( ) detects the native language of "Omnia Vincit Amor" as "la" which is the code of the language "Latin".

Translating from one language to another

    To translate from one language to another, use syntax as

            translate(text, dest = "lang")

    where dest is the destination language to translate.

Look into the following code snippet for clear understanding,

# after detecting the native language of the text ie., refer above code snippet#translation from Latin to English can be done bytranslated = trans.translate("omnia vincit amor" , dest ="en")print(translated.text)#output : Love conquers all

    In the above code snippet, the text "Omnia Vincit Amor" was translated from its native language to "English".