Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

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vinjn

Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

in Share your Work • 1 year ago

Following is a simple code explaining how to do translation via Bing api.

http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/

A valid app id must be applied before use bing translation service.

But you can use my appId as provided...

String bingTranslate(String query, String langFrom, String langTo)

{ //first encoding to url style try { query = URLEncoder.encode(query, "UTF-8"); } catch (Exception e) { } String appId = "78280AF4DFA1CE1676AFE86340C690023A5AC139"; String url = "http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Ajax.svc/Translate?appId="+ appId+"&from=" + langFrom + "&to=" + langTo + "&text=" + query; return loadStrings(url)[0]; } //Chinese -> English String translateChinese(String query) { return bingTranslate(query, "zh-cn", "en"); } // English -> Chinese String translateEnglish(String query) { return bingTranslate(query, "en", "zh-cn"); }

void setup() { println(translateChinese("今天星期几啊")); println(translateEnglish("Every dog has its day!")); }

Replies(6)

clankill3r

Re: Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

1 year ago

cool thanks

It might be cool to subset since bing puts quotes around.

With this you get rid of them:

String result = loadStrings(url)[0];

return result.substring(2, result.length()-1);

Also do you know if it's possible to get something back with returns in it?

And why is there a strange character in front? Like it always starts like this: ?" but if i write it to a file then the ? mark is gone (that's why i had subset with 2 t get rid of the ? as well).

dackdel

Re: Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

1 year ago

did you manage to get this to work? I could not.

PhiLho

Re: Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

1 year ago

"This doesn't work" is one of the most unhelpful sentence in a programming forum... Without details, hard to help.
First, have you your own API key?

dackdel

Re: Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

1 year ago

Ah okay just got it to work. Yes got the API key. Its strange tho they moved to Azure and its a bit different than what was posted as the first example. Trying to translate speech here but still in the process of writing it. Will post soon. But the translation is really bad? Does anyone else thing that bing translate could use some work?

vinjn

Re: Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

1 year ago

Right, MS has changed its Bing translation API.

And I've never used the new one.

There was time that we could use Google translation API for free, but then it's not.

So MS is the best choice I found so far.

If you are not afraid to visit Chinese website, there is another choice -- 有道翻译

http://fanyi.youdao.com/openapi?path=data-mode

It provides more functionalities, and, it's free.

dackdel

Re: Sample of Microsoft Bing translation API usage.

1 year ago

http://rupeshpatel.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/usage-of-google-translator-api-for-free/ i dont know how well this works but this is the best i could find. its pretty recent.