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Commands tagged translate

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tr a-z A-Z < file.txt
2012-06-26 18:52:41
User: ankush108
Functions: tr
Tags: tr translate
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Change a file to upper case

Translates first set into second set

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function say { mplayer -really-quiet "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$1"; }
2011-12-16 20:56:40
User: tikal808
Tags: translate say text to speech
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Have Google Translate speak to you using your local speakers

Put the string above in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, then source the file. Make sure your sound output is working, you have mplayer installed, then type in a word or sentence similar to below:

say "why won't anyone talk to me?"

It's easy to get the language to be different by changing the "en" in the string to be "de" or some other language that Google Translate supports. Have multiple "say" functions, like "say-en" "say-de", etc.

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wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -qO - "http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t?client=t&text=translation+example&sl=auto&tl=fr" | sed 's/\[\[\[\"//' | cut -d \" -f 1
2011-03-06 13:46:16
User: sairon
Functions: cut sed wget
Tags: google translate
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Google Translate

substitute "example" with desired string;

tl = target language (en, fr, de, hu, ...);

you can leave sl parameter as-is (autodetection works fine)

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tw translate.google.com.de-en `xsel`
2010-06-11 22:28:28
User: dbbolton
Tags: clipboard xsel translate
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translate what is in the clipboard in english and write it to the terminal

Translate the X selection from German to English. The tw program is available from Savannah: http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/savannah/twandgtw/

I'm posting this because the base Debian system also does not include curl.

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translate() { lng1="$1";lng2="$2";shift;shift; wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=${@// /+}&langpair=$lng1|$lng2" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }
2010-05-02 22:15:30
User: bandie91
Functions: sed wget
Tags: google translate
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Google Translate

allow multiword translations

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cmd=$( wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; ); echo "$cmd"
2010-03-13 01:09:00
User: dtolj
Functions: sed wget
Tags: google translate
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Google Translate
translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language>

works from command line

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translate(){ wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=$1&langpair=$2|${3:-en}" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/'; }
2010-03-08 03:15:48
User: matthewbauer
Functions: sed wget
Tags: google translate
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Google Translate

Usage:

translate <phrase> <source-language> <output-language>

Example:

translate hello en es

See this for a list of language codes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

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