Automated Translation With R And Google Translate Api

Add Machine Translation to your Data Science skill set

What you'll learn
Automatically translate many files from one to many other languages
Automatically detect language(s) and translate text into one other language
Use R and Google Translator API
Learn to do text strings manipulation in R Statistical Software
Let computer work while you are sleeping!!! :)
Understand unicode standard for character encoding
Requirements
Internet connection
Mac or PC
Basic Computer Skills
Willing to learn to use code or basic programming skills
Gmail account for Google Cloud subscription or similar alternative of Microsoft
Credit Card to be able to setup Google Cloud Subscription
Files to translate must be of good quality
Code can be adapted to the Microsoft Translate API as well
Description
IntroductionThis course will help you to learn how to practically use Google translator API*. This knowledge will greatly speed up translation tasks using cloud infrastructure. Multiple features like text analytics can now be enabled for your Blog, ChatBot, or other sources of Text.* Knowledge obtained in this course is also applicable for Microsoft Translator API Why I need this course?As a Blog owner it would be possible to know what are those hundreds of comments about. Enable text analytics with foreign languages…As a Product owner it would be possible to update translation of manuals automatically as the text source changeAs a Web site owner it would be easier to localize the website to increase sales from specific world regionWhat you will learn?Setup Google Cloud Platform: get free credit, generate API keysRead Text files using R Statistical SoftwareManipulate text strings in the tablesDetect language sourceAuto translate your files from one to many different languagesAuto translate text from many different languages to one…Price indication for an Automated Translation using Cloud PlatformsHow we will learn?We will learn by translating closed captions or *.vtt files. If you have subtitles files for your videos which you want to auto-translate to many different languages then it's the course for you! You will be able to translate those files right away by using specialized R packageAdditionally we will explore situation of translating multiple languages into one. We will be able to detect language source, translate only what is required to be translated.We will use R software as our programming environment which will allow us to achieve our goal with minimum programming effort possible. This course is designed for you to quickly achieve your goal to know how to setup your computer in order to automatically translate your text. Join this course because you will get all these additional benefits:Learn how to encrypt and securely use your API key with your scripts to safely use Version ControlLearn strings manipulations in RLearn to automate your translating tasksLearn what is Unicode StandardUse code from the course with ease using R package translateVTT (soon on CRAN)Finally you will be able to make computer doing all job even when you are sleeping!!!Google/Microsoft Translate API is a paid service, however you can use your bonus credit from Google/Microsoft to start learning and applying your knowledge completely for Free. Course will also giving you a price indication of using this service.

Overview

Section 1: Why you need it?

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Getting the basis!

Lecture 2 Install R

Lecture 3 Basics about API

Lecture 4 Where to get the code?

Lecture 5 Google Translator API key

Lecture 6 Encrypt your Key in R!

Lecture 7 Translate Hello World

Section 3: Massive Translation: Translate VTT files

Lecture 8 Solving Translation problem for one file

Lecture 9 Write Function

Lecture 10 Automate Translation with For Loop!

Lecture 11 R Package to translate vtt files with subtitles

Lecture 12 How much does it cost and what are the benefits?

Lecture 13 Troubleshooing, Character Encoding, etc …

Section 4: Detect languages and selectively translate them to English

Lecture 14 Requirement: translating different unknown languages into English

Lecture 15 Solution: translating different unknown languages into English

Section 5: Web harvesting / scrapping and translation

Lecture 16 Requirement: harvest and translate news articles

Lecture 17 Part 1 - Get the table for one page

Lecture 18 Part 2 - Create function for several pages

Section 6: Conclusion

Lecture 19 Conclusion and thank you! [BONUS]

Udemy Instructors who want to translate files with closed captions to many other languages,Anyone who need to routinely translate many documents,Data Scientists who work with Text Data, e.g. for Sentiment Analysis,Product owner, Technical documentation owner,Blog/website owner who want to track comments on the website (in foreign languages),Website owner who wish to localize (translate) their website to start sales in other markets