Hi: I would guess that to be correct. It seems folks are switching to the
Microsoft Translate API. My guess Google will come out with a paid version.
They have a ton of code and perhaps the world's largest translation
dictionaries and i can not immagine them just throwing all that away. This
could be a ploy by Google to get some income from their work but it stinks if
that is what they are doing. Not that they want to charge, it costs money for
programmers and hardware etc... but the way they are doing it. Not saying there
willl be an alternative but that the lights will just go out at the end of the
year. Think of the millions of web sites that use their service. Many of them
are small buisness sites and they are not going to be happy campers. They would
likely pay a small charge for the service but if they are in panic mode they
will be scrambling to get Microsoft Translate up and running like me.
I tried the httpwebrequest method but get a invalid to language code message
even though the string looks correct. Of course, it might be I don't have a
Windows Live ID nor a httpweb ID or SOAP id or whatever hoops MS wants me to
jump through yet. They have a captia on their signup pages and the audio is not
understandable to me so I need to wait for sighted help to get the necessary
WindowsLive and Application Developers ID thingys.
Actually, the MS technicals look cleaner than the google technicals if I ever
get the necessary permissions to use the bloody things.
Long story short, no more google translate next year unless they are just
positioning for providing it as a paid service. Jamal will have to modify his
app and I'm not sure about Web.Client but it will also no longer be relevant if
it points to a Google endpoint.
Later, sob, Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Christo de Klerk
To: [email protected]
Cc: RicksPlace
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: Google Translate Project Cancelled
Hi guys
Does this mean that Jamal's stand-alone language translation app and the one
included in WebClient will also stop working? That will be a major disaster! I
use them regularly. What on earth could Google's thinking behind this have been?
From a very dismayed
Christo
On 2011/06/05 3:29 AM, RicksPlace wrote:
Hi Chip: Ya, just what I need, more learning - grin. OK, so I just reviewed
the Microsoft Translator API and it looks like it might work. I have my vb.net
app set up in classes so all my language functions are in my LanguageHandler
class. All other classes call into this class for any language services. thus I
can just replace the google api http REST interface code in there and the rest
of the application will remain the same. That said there is allot of code that
I used to convert, compare and evaluate the various combinations of Microsoft
language codes, required for the culture settings, and the google codes which
were required for the google interface - sigh. I am leaning twoard a SOAP
protocol since I found a DeskTop example of translation code for the MS
Translator. I have never used SOAP so it will, shudder, be another "learning
experience". I might just convert it to the http version which I am more
familiar with but that is for tomorrow's fun.
For now I am just glad I took the time to modularize my code up front or I
would have had to mess with allot of other tested and solid code.
I was gathering the technicals to add a background worker to the loading of
the app on the installation so I could have a progress indicator of how the
translation process was getting on when all this went down.
Anyway, it is not as bad, I hope, as I first thought so it is off to do
some homework about using SOAP and, or HTTP with the Microsoft Translator API
from a DeskTop App.
Guess this puppy might still hunt one day.
Later Chip and thanks for the reply.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 9:01 PM
Subject: RE: Google Translate Project Cancelled
wwhhhaaaa!!!
Sorry to hear that Rick; especially after you put all the work in.
Oh well, you're that much better a programmer for having spent that time
learning, that's what you have to remind yourself!
Chip
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From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Google Translate Project Cancelled
Hi: I just found out Google is deprecating it's Translate API by the end
of this year. Therefore, my project to auto-translate WE Script UI Elements is
also deprecated.
I will look at the possibility of using Microsoft's Translate services
but my code base is 90 percent done for the Google Translate version. It might
require a massive ReWrite to switch to a
SOAP or other HTTP Request / Response protocol or whatever...
Anyway, I see no reason to continue the current project - thanks Google.
Rick USA
