Any open Source tool available to English to Spanish translation and vice versa

[kathan.p@gmail.com]

I have a project in which I have to fetch data from AS400 tables, translate them into Spanish, and then send it to an external application and vice versa. The external application is going to respond in Spanish then I have to translate it back into English. Any Idea how can that be acheveid?

[jonboy49]

Since this forum is hosted by Scott this is probably a good place to start: https://www.scottklement.com/presentati ... %20RPG.pdf

Watson is just one of a number of translation APIs that can be called directly from your RPG code via Scott's HTTPAPI or SQL - among other options.

Not hard to do and there are a number of examples out there on the web.

[kathan.p@gmail.com]

Thank you.. But it looks like it's support is ended or IBM is going to remove it completely starting Dec '2024

[jonboy49]

Do you mean Watson Translate? A link to that info would be nice.

Regardless, I have to believe that they will have a replacement with a different name. plus there are other similar services out there including Google. The basic principles will be the same.

[kathan.p@gmail.com]

https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/language-translator

The above link gave me that information about Watson..

[jonboy49]

Interesting that they offer no alternative - oh well - here's just a few options: https://slashdot.org/software/p/IBM-Wat ... ternatives

As I said there are a lot of them.

[kathan.p@gmail.com]

Thank you for the information. I was thinking of having a free open source but it looks like no.. I will check that link..


Thank you again!!

[jonboy49]

Well Libre Translate may do it for you https://libretranslate.com/ but unless you're going to run the code on your own box then it is still going to cost you a minimum of US$14 a month (https://portal.libretranslate.com/)

It all depends on the volume you will be handling and how many languages you need. Tools like this one and Google Translate are cheap. Personally I'm far from convinced that the extra hassle of self-hosting is worth it compared with the cost of a hosted service.

[Scott Klement]

My intention is to convert my examples to use DeepL. They have a free version that supports up to 500000 chars/month -- so it's pretty similar to the IBM Watson option.

Pricing: https://www.deepl.com/en/pro#developer
Docs: https://developers.deepl.com/docs/getti ... pi-request