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Interestingly, Google very quietly shuttered the Google Translate for web plugin that made it possible to autotranslate sites. The Web Speech API already exist
by priansh 8y ago
Interestingly, Google very quietly shuttered the Google Translate for web plugin that made it possible to autotranslate sites.
The Web Speech API already exists for Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis, so hopefully they add a translation API directly to Chrome. Can't call it an _inter_net if it doesn't easily support multiple languages!
- tokyodude 8y agoYou need a plugin? I thought you just past the URL into translate.google.com https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ja&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.co.jp%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=ja&tl=en&u=htt... Seems pretty straight forward to make a plugin that generates those URLs if you want one.
- priansh 8y agoIt's not "allowed", i.e. if I want to have GTranslate by default on my site regardless of what browser someone is on, I can't do that anymore. Their translator can also be accessed via API, but again not "allowed." It's not a huge issue since they don't do much other than try to 503 you, but it's still "illegal."
- dspillett 8y ago> Google very quietly shuttered the Google Translate for web plugin that made it possible to autotranslate sites. The feature still seems to be built into Chrome: https://random.spillett.net/stuff/tmp/translate.png https://random.spillett.net/stuff/tmp/translate.png Or was there a plug-in for other browsers too, that is now AWOL?
- priansh 8y agoPlugin for the site! You could add/trigger it and have the entire site autotranslated for anyone from any browser as long as you left the "translated by Google Translate" somewhere on the site.