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Implement translation service #16

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kwreen opened this issue Jan 25, 2019 · 2 comments
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Implement translation service #16

kwreen opened this issue Jan 25, 2019 · 2 comments
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Task for Issue #15

  • Select translation API that allows translation for at least 30 (?) languages (Google Cloud Translation API?)
  • Document API limitations, if any
  • Implement translation service
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[#16] implement TranslationService and associated classes
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Merge pull request #60 from justin-cotarla/feature/translation-backend
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[#16] implement TranslationService and associated classes
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API Limitations

We decided to go with Google Translate (now called Cloud Translation) for our translation backend, due to its versatility and its tried and tested performance. This came however came with two issues:

  1. The Java binding for the library does not support Android. To get around this we use the REST API.
  2. Cloud translate only supports translating to/from English (i.e. one of the languages in the translation pair has to be English). See reference.

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kwreen commented Mar 5, 2019

Refer to PR #61

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