Transloadit

Translate text in documents

🤖/text/translate translates text in documents.

You can use the text that we return in your application, or you can pass the text down to other Robots to add a translated subtitle track to a video for example.

Usage example

Translate uploaded text file contents to German:

{
  "steps": {
    "translated": {
      "robot": "/text/translate",
      "use": ":original",
      "target_language": "de",
      "provider": "aws"
    }
  }
}

Parameters

  • output_meta

    Record<string, boolean> | boolean

    Allows you to specify a set of metadata that is more expensive on CPU power to calculate, and thus is disabled by default to keep your Assemblies processing fast.

    For images, you can add "has_transparency": true in this object to extract if the image contains transparent parts and "dominant_colors": true to extract an array of hexadecimal color codes from the image.

    For videos, you can add the "colorspace: true" parameter to extract the colorspace of the output video.

    For audio, you can add "mean_volume": true to get a single value representing the mean average volume of the audio file.

    You can also set this to false to skip metadata extraction and speed up transcoding.

  • result

    boolean (default: false)

    Whether the results of this Step should be present in the Assembly Status JSON

  • queue

    "batch"

    Setting the queue to 'batch', manually downgrades the priority of jobs for this step to avoid consuming Priority job slots for jobs that don't need zero queue waiting times

  • force_accept

    boolean (default: false)
      Force a Robot to accept a file type it would have ignored.

    By default Robots ignore files they are not familiar with. 🤖/video/encode, for example, will happily ignore input images.

    With the force_accept parameter set to true you can force Robots to accept all files thrown at them. This will typically lead to errors and should only be used for debugging or combatting edge cases.

  • use

    string | Array<string> | Array<object> | object

    Specifies which Step(s) to use as input.

    • You can pick any names for Steps except ":original" (reserved for user uploads handled by Transloadit)
    • You can provide several Steps as input with arrays: 
      {
  "use": [
    ":original",
    "encoded",
    "resized"
  ]
}

  • provider

    · required

    Which AI provider to leverage. Valid values are "aws" (Amazon Web Services) and "gcp" (Google Cloud Platform).

    Transloadit outsources this task and abstracts the interface so you can expect the same data structures, but different latencies and information being returned. Different cloud vendors have different areas they shine in, and we recommend to try out and see what yields the best results for your use case.

  • target_language

    (default: "en")

    The desired language to translate to.

    If the exact language can't be found, a generic variant can be fallen back to. For example, if you specify "en-US", "en" will be used instead. Please consult the list of supported languages for each provider.

  • source_language

    (default: "en")

    The desired language to translate from.

    By default, both providers will detect this automatically, but there are cases where specifying the source language prevents ambiguities.

    If the exact language can't be found, a generic variant can be fallen back to. For example, if you specify "en-US", "en" will be used instead. Please consult the list of supported languages for each provider.

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