Machine Translation no longer possible

[cherpake]

Microsoft retired it - can't create new accounts: https://datamarket.azure.com/account/applications

[Jeehut]

Thanks for the pointer. I will remove the feature once I have some spare time and add an explanation to the README. If anybody needs the feature, they are free to copy the code and adapt it for a different translation service in its own library. I think supporting incremented updates is going to be the main goal of this library going forward.

[jaimeagudo]

I could create a new account yet, the correct url is https://datamarket.azure.com/developer/applications

From what I understand they are re-organizing/integrating it within their services, not really retiring

[Jeehut]

Thanks for the information, it's good to know. The big question is though if they are going to keep a free service and if the API will be implemented into Polyglot, otherwise work would be required to get it working again what I don't have the time for.

[jaimeagudo]

After some browsing here you have the refurbished service page, free tier still available for 2Mchars/month 😄 https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/pricing/details/cognitive-services/translator-text-api/

Btw I checked out the Google Cloud one too and there is no free tier at all

[Jeehut]

Thanks for the research, sounds good. Only question is if it continues to work out of the box – then I would only update the registrations links (or are they even still correct?).

[pooran]

Yes, free tier is good for most applications out there

[Jeehut]

That doesn't answer my question. Is translation working as-is with the current version of BartyCrouch? Or do we need to update the links? If this is not an issue at all, I'd like to close this issue.

[0xNSHuman]

So I just registered with Microsoft Translator using its new home — Azure Portal, and it seems to have different authorization flow now. I couldn't find anything like API Secret there, but requests can be satisfied using just single "Subscription Key".

Not sure what service BC uses, but current endpoint is https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/sts/v1.0. Btw, it still has the same nice free plan.

I tried running BC with the closest credentials to API Key/API Secret I had (Subscription ID/Subscription Key), but it just did nothing. No errors thrown as well.

Hope this clears things up.

[Jeehut]

Thanks for the update. Looks like we need to either update that part of BartyCrouch or remove it, just as I planned previously. If anyone was really using the translation feature of BartyCrouch, I encourage them to fork BartyCrouch at version 3.8.x, rename the project and stripp off all non-translation related code to create a new tool specifically for that task.

I will let this issue open so long as BartyCrouch doesn't receive an update with the translation feature dropped.