translate

translate.js - translates text to different languages, simple as cake

v0.6.0

USAGE

node.js -

    var sys = require('sys');
    var colors = require('colors'); // colors are fun!
    var translate = require('./lib/translate');

    // note: the translator is  English=>Spanish by default
    translate.text('I want tacos please.', function(err, text){

      sys.puts('I want tacos please.'.red + ' => '.cyan + text.yellow);
      var input = 'Spanish', output = "Japanese";
      translate.text({input:input,output:output}, text, function(err, text2){

        var input = 'Japanese', output = "English";
        sys.puts(text.yellow + ' => '.cyan + text2.blue);
        translate.text({input:input,output:output}, text, function(err, text3){

           sys.puts(text2.blue + ' => '.cyan + text3.red);
           sys.puts('English'.red+'=>'+'Spanish'.yellow+'=>'+'Japanese'.blue+'=>'+'English'.red  +'\ntaco request has been normalized. ^_^'.green);
        });
      }); 
    });

browser -

      <!-- main translate.js library -->
      <script type="text/javascript" src="./lib/translate.js"></script>

      <!-- load up the languages definition file -->
      <script type="text/javascript" src="./lib/languages.js"></script>

      <!-- jquery not required, just used in the demo page -->
      <script type="text/javascript" src="./vendor/jquery.js"></script>

      <script type="text/javascript">
        var languages;

        $(document).ready(function(){

          languages = getLangs();

          // populate the select box
          for(var lang in languages){
            $('#langInput').append('<option value = "'+lang+'">' + lang + '</option>');
          }

          for(var lang in languages){
            $('#langOutput').append('<option value = "'+lang+'">' + lang + '</option>');
          }

          /***** NAMED EVENTS *****/

            $(document).bind('##TRANSLATE_TEXT##', function(e){

              $('#run').attr('disabled','disabled');
              $('#run').val('translating...');     
              var input = $('#langInput').val(), output = $('#langOutput').val();

              translate.text({input:input,output:output}, $('#theCode').val(), function(result){
                $('#run').attr('disabled','');
                $('#run').val('<== translate ==>');
                $('#output').val( result );
              });
            });

          /**** END NAMED EVENTS ****/

          /**** BIND UI EVENTS ****/

            // select box change
            $('#langSelector').change(function(){
              $(document).trigger('##CHANGE_LANGUAGE##', {"fontName":$(this).val()})
            });

            $('#run').click(function(e){
              $(document).trigger('##TRANSLATE_TEXT##');
            });

          /**** END UI BIND EVENTS ****/

          // little bit of a onReady hack. i'll fix the API a bit so this can be done better
          $(document).trigger('##CHANGE_LANGUAGE##', {"fontName":'Doh'});
          $('#langInput').val('English');
          $('#langOutput').val('Spanish');

        });
      </script>

languages

Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese

Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician

Georgian German Greek Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish

Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian

Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish

Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

fun facts

translate.js uses the google api and requires an internet connection
if you want to actually hear the translated text as audio you could use say.js

Authors

Andrew Lunny (alunny), Marak Squires, Google