Translate text

Request a text translation against a model.

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Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for AutoML Translation, see AutoML Translation client libraries. For more information, see the AutoML Translation Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to AutoML Translation, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	automl "cloud.google.com/go/automl/apiv1"
	"cloud.google.com/go/automl/apiv1/automlpb"
)

// 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: %w", 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: %w", err)
	}

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

	return nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for AutoML Translation, see AutoML Translation client libraries. For more information, see the AutoML Translation Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to AutoML Translation, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

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

To learn how to install and use the client library for AutoML Translation, see AutoML Translation client libraries. For more information, see the AutoML Translation Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to AutoML Translation, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

/**
 * 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

To learn how to install and use the client library for AutoML Translation, see AutoML Translation client libraries. For more information, see the AutoML Translation Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to AutoML Translation, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment. 

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(f"Translated content: {translated_content.content}")

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