[pology] Is the Google translation backend broken?

mvillarino mvillarino at kde-espana.es
Wed Mar 14 05:40:05 PDT 2012


Good day,
Curiously, today a mate let my translation project know that there is
an on-line translation web that uses Apertium as engine and allows for
programmatic access. It has a page containing instructions to migrate
from google translate to their service.

http://itranslate4.eu/api#migration

El día 13 de marzo de 2012 09:50, Chusslove Illich
<caslav.ilic at gmx.net> escribió:
>> [: Petter Reinholdtsen :]
>> Is the Google translation backend for pomtrans broken? I tested it, and
>> got no translated text. Perhaps the changes to the API access terms broke
>> it?
>
> As far as I understood, Google terminated the API access to translation
> service altogether, in November or so. (Because they judged it is too
> abused, there was a big ruckus when they announced this decision mid-last
> year.)
>
> I didn't remove Google as option so far, in case they had a change of
> hearts, or offered some sort of subscription access. But it seems I should
> remove it soon.
>
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