Automated Translation with R and Google Translate API

Name: Automated Translation with R and Google Translate API
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Add Machine Translation to your Data Science skill set

Created byVladimir Zhbanko

Last updated 3/2020

English

What you'll learn

Automatically translate many files from one to many other languages
Automatically detect language(s) and translate text into one other language
Use R and Google Translator API
Learn to do text strings manipulation in R Statistical Software
Let computer work while you are sleeping!!! :)
Understand unicode standard for character encoding

Course content

6 sections • 19 lectures • 59m total length

Introduction2:58

Install R4:44
In case R is something completely new for you - here is the start!
Basics about API0:32
Basics about API
Where to get the code?0:09
Explanation of where to get the code for this course
Google Translator API key2:47
This lecture explain how to get Google API Key. You need credit card and you will be given 300 USD credit for your experiments
Encrypt your Key in R!2:50
Optional lecture to make sure our API key is encrypted and we are not risking to leak it somewhere. We aim to keep this key encrypted in the R Working directory
Translate Hello World2:22
This lecture is a simple example how translation is working from R

Solving Translation problem for one file5:57
This lecture shows how to solve translation problem for one *.vtt file.
Write Function1:49
In this lecture we will improve our code and pack it into R function. This is essential step we need to automate our translation process
Automate Translation with For Loop!4:48
Write a for loop to repeat translations multiple times
R Package to translate vtt files with subtitles0:28
Link to R package with dedicated function translateVTT
How much does it cost and what are the benefits?6:03
Troubleshooing, Character Encoding, etc ...11:47
Lecture about Encoding
Issues that we can encounter:

On Mac - function translateR does not return translation
'Special' characters can not be written to the file and visualized in R-Studio

What is Encoding

How to solve these issues

Requirement: translating different unknown languages into English2:19
How to translate unknown languages into English?
Say we have a comma separated file or database collecting users feedback from the website. Owner of the website could have a need to review these comments. Perhaps also moderate them if they are not appropriate ones...
How can we automatically detect the language [we may not know the origin!] and translate it into English???
Let's assume we have a this text in the file comments.csv [attached to this lecture]
Let's see the solution in the next lecture!
Solution: translating different unknown languages into English9:19
Explaining solution that translates many [unknown] languages into one

Requirements

Internet connection
Mac or PC
Basic Computer Skills
Willing to learn to use code or basic programming skills
Gmail account for Google Cloud subscription or similar alternative of Microsoft
Credit Card to be able to setup Google Cloud Subscription
Files to translate must be of good quality
Code can be adapted to the Microsoft Translate API as well

Description

Introduction
This course will help you to learn how to practically use Google translator API*. This knowledge will greatly speed up translation tasks using cloud infrastructure. Multiple features like text analytics can now be enabled for your Blog, ChatBot, or other sources of Text.

* Knowledge obtained in this course is also applicable for Microsoft Translator API

Why I need this course?

As a Blog owner it would be possible to know what are those hundreds of comments about. Enable text analytics with foreign languages...
As a Product owner it would be possible to update translation of manuals automatically as the text source change
As a Web site owner it would be easier to localize the website to increase sales from specific world region

What you will learn?

Setup Google Cloud Platform: get free credit, generate API keys
Read Text files using R Statistical Software
Manipulate text strings in the tables
Detect language source
Auto translate your files from one to many different languages
Auto translate text from many different languages to one...
Price indication for an Automated Translation using Cloud Platforms

How we will learn?

We will learn by translating closed captions or *.vtt files. If you have subtitles files for your videos which you want to auto-translate to many different languages then it's the course for you! You will be able to translate those files right away by using specialized R package
Additionally we will explore situation of translating multiple languages into one. We will be able to detect language source, translate only what is required to be translated.
We will use R software as our programming environment which will allow us to achieve our goal with minimum programming effort possible.
This course is designed for you to quickly achieve your goal to know how to setup your computer in order to automatically translate your text.

Join this course because you will get all these additional benefits:

Learn how to encrypt and securely use your API key with your scripts to safely use Version Control
Learn strings manipulations in R
Learn to automate your translating tasks
Learn what is Unicode Standard
Use code from the course with ease using R package translateVTT (soon on CRAN)

Finally you will be able to make computer doing all job even when you are sleeping!!!

Google/Microsoft Translate API is a paid service, however you can use your bonus credit from Google/Microsoft to start learning and applying your knowledge completely for Free. Course will also giving you a price indication of using this service.

Who this course is for:

Udemy Instructors who want to translate files with closed captions to many other languages
Anyone who need to routinely translate many documents
Data Scientists who work with Text Data, e.g. for Sentiment Analysis
Product owner, Technical documentation owner
Blog/website owner who want to track comments on the website (in foreign languages)
Website owner who wish to localize (translate) their website to start sales in other markets

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Why you need it?1 lecture • 3min

Getting the basis!6 lectures • 13min

Massive Translation: Translate VTT files6 lectures • 31min

Detect languages and selectively translate them to English2 lectures • 12min

Web harvesting / scrapping and translation3 lectures • 1min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

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