Translate text

Request a text translation against a model.

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Code sample

Go

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	automl "cloud.google.com/go/automl/apiv1"
	automlpb "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/cloud/automl/v1"
)

// translatePredict does a prediction for translate.
func translatePredict(w io.Writer, projectID string, location string, modelID string, content string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// location := "us-central1"
	// modelID := "TRL123456789..."
	// content := "text to translate"

	ctx := context.Background()
	client, err := automl.NewPredictionClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("NewPredictionClient: %v", err)
	}
	defer client.Close()

	req := &automlpb.PredictRequest{
		Name: fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s/models/%s", projectID, location, modelID),
		Payload: &automlpb.ExamplePayload{
			Payload: &automlpb.ExamplePayload_TextSnippet{
				TextSnippet: &automlpb.TextSnippet{
					Content:  content,
					MimeType: "text/plain", // Types: "text/plain", "text/html"
				},
			},
		},
	}

	resp, err := client.Predict(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Predict: %v", err)
	}

	for _, payload := range resp.GetPayload() {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Translated content: %v\n", payload.GetTranslation().GetTranslatedContent().GetContent())
	}

	return nil
}

Java

import com.google.cloud.automl.v1.ExamplePayload;
import com.google.cloud.automl.v1.ModelName;
import com.google.cloud.automl.v1.PredictRequest;
import com.google.cloud.automl.v1.PredictResponse;
import com.google.cloud.automl.v1.PredictionServiceClient;
import com.google.cloud.automl.v1.TextSnippet;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

class TranslatePredict {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID";
    String modelId = "YOUR_MODEL_ID";
    String filePath = "path_to_local_file.txt";
    predict(projectId, modelId, filePath);
  }

  static void predict(String projectId, String modelId, String filePath) throws IOException {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
    // once, and can be reused for multiple requests. After completing all of your requests, call
    // the "close" method on the client to safely clean up any remaining background resources.
    try (PredictionServiceClient client = PredictionServiceClient.create()) {
      // Get the full path of the model.
      ModelName name = ModelName.of(projectId, "us-central1", modelId);

      String content = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(filePath)));

      TextSnippet textSnippet = TextSnippet.newBuilder().setContent(content).build();
      ExamplePayload payload = ExamplePayload.newBuilder().setTextSnippet(textSnippet).build();
      PredictRequest predictRequest =
          PredictRequest.newBuilder().setName(name.toString()).setPayload(payload).build();

      PredictResponse response = client.predict(predictRequest);
      TextSnippet translatedContent =
          response.getPayload(0).getTranslation().getTranslatedContent();
      System.out.format("Translated Content: %s\n", translatedContent.getContent());
    }
  }
}

Node.js

/**
 * TODO(developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// const projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';
// const location = 'us-central1';
// const modelId = 'YOUR_MODEL_ID';
// const filePath = 'path_to_local_file.txt';

// Imports the Google Cloud AutoML library
const {PredictionServiceClient} = require('@google-cloud/automl').v1;
const fs = require('fs');

// Instantiates a client
const client = new PredictionServiceClient();

// Read the file content for translation.
const content = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8');

async function predict() {
  // Construct request
  const request = {
    name: client.modelPath(projectId, location, modelId),
    payload: {
      textSnippet: {
        content: content,
      },
    },
  };

  const [response] = await client.predict(request);

  console.log(
    'Translated content: ',
    response.payload[0].translation.translatedContent.content
  );
}

predict();

Python

from google.cloud import automl

# TODO(developer): Uncomment and set the following variables
# project_id = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"
# model_id = "YOUR_MODEL_ID"
# file_path = "path_to_local_file.txt"

prediction_client = automl.PredictionServiceClient()

# Get the full path of the model.
model_full_id = automl.AutoMlClient.model_path(project_id, "us-central1", model_id)

# Read the file content for translation.
with open(file_path, "rb") as content_file:
    content = content_file.read()
content.decode("utf-8")

text_snippet = automl.TextSnippet(content=content)
payload = automl.ExamplePayload(text_snippet=text_snippet)

response = prediction_client.predict(name=model_full_id, payload=payload)
translated_content = response.payload[0].translation.translated_content

print(u"Translated content: {}".format(translated_content.content))

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