Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of BluePrintTransliteration
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v20 v21 47 47 === Description on Different APIs 48 48 '''Mygengo Translation API''' 49 50 The Gengo API helps you to take your service global. Whether you’re integrating an option for translation for your users, or building a fun translation application, our API handles a variety of languages and features.49 50 The Gengo API helps you to take your service global. Whether you’re integrating an option for translation for your users, or building a fun translation application, our API handles a variety of languages and features. 51 51 52 52 The online documentation here describes the resources comprising the official Gengo API. You can jump right in by browsing the resources on the right . … … 54 54 '''Microsoft Translator APIs''' 55 55 56 Microsoft Translator provides a powerful set of web service APIs that developers can use to take advantage of its best-of-breed Machine Translation technology in their own applications, services or web sites. This API may be called in a number of ways, including an HTTP REST Service, an AJAX-callable service and a SOAP Web Service.56 Microsoft Translator provides a powerful set of web service APIs that developers can use to take advantage of its best-of-breed Machine Translation technology in their own applications, services or web sites. This API may be called in a number of ways, including an HTTP REST Service, an AJAX-callable service and a SOAP Web Service. 57 57 The Microsoft Translator API, an online service, is available directly from the Windows Azure Marketplace. The Microsoft Translator API is sold as a monthly subscription based on the number of characters of text passed to the API. The API is available for FREE for usage up to 2 million characters per month. 58 58 59 59 '''Speaklite Translate API''' 60 60 61 When you integrate SpeakLike into your content management system, support software or website, cross-language communication becomes another behind-the-scenes tool. You’re free to focus on marketing, customer interaction and business communication instead of managing translation projects.61 When you integrate SpeakLike into your content management system, support software or website, cross-language communication becomes another behind-the-scenes tool. You’re free to focus on marketing, customer interaction and business communication instead of managing translation projects. 62 62 63 63 Their API allows your IT or development team full access to our translation platform. They can build whatever user interface works best for you and we do the rest. Translation requests are automatically processed and made available to your system by either push or pull methods, according to your preferences. … … 65 65 '''WebServiceX Translate API''' 66 66 67 Convert text from one lanaguage to another language .Supported languages are English to Chinese,English to French,English to German,English to Italian,English to Japanese,English to Korean,English to Portuguese,English to Spanish,Chinese to English,French to English,French to German,German to English,German to French,Italian to English,Japanese to English,Korean to English,Portuguese to English,Russian to English,Spanish to English. 67 Convert text from one lanaguage to another language .Supported languages are English to Chinese,English to French,English to German,English to Italian,English to Japanese,English to Korean,English to Portuguese,English to Spanish,Chinese to English,French to English,French to German,German to English,German to French,Italian to English,Japanese to English,Korean to English,Portuguese to English,Russian to English,Spanish to English. 68 69 == Transliteration Input Method == 70 71 Google Transliteration IME is now available in fourteen languages 72 An IME is an "Input Method Editor" and simply refers to software that lets you type in a language of your choice. Once you download the Google Transliteration IME(it's free and there's no signup required), you can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and it will convert the word to its native script. For example, typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as : हमेशा 73 74 Google Transliteration IME offers several features focused on an improved user experience, including offline support, word completion, personalized choices, easy-to-use keyboard, quick search and several cool customization options. As a user types, a suggestion menu is displayed with alternatives and word completions. For example, as you type "googl" you will see five options from you can select the correct one. 75 68 76 === Thoughts about server-side implementation === 69 77 Another idea that came up is, that it would be nice if a user could search for something by using his or her language specific letters. For example, a user wants to search for "Aspirin" in Arabic letters. Currently, he won't find anything, as the UTF-8 encodings of roman letters are different from the Arabic letters ("Aspirin" == "أسبرين" would fail). The idea is to reverse transliterate the non-roman string into roman letters on server-side and perform the search with the reverse-transliterated string.
