badams/microsoft-translator

PHP implementation of Microsoft's Translator API

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MicrosoftTranslator

An easy to use PHP implementation of Microsoft's Translator API

The goal of this project is to provide a modern, elegant, and feature complete implementation of the Microsoft Translation HTTP API to PHP developers., _(*2)

Currently supported methods

• Translate: Converts a string of text from one language to another.
• Detect: Detects the language of a selection of text.
• Speak: Generates a wave form of synthesised speech from the given text/language combination.
• GetLanguagesForSpeak: Obtains a list of the language codes supported by the Translator Service for speech synthesis.
• GetLanguageNames: Retrieves localized names for the languages passed to it.
• GetLanguagesForTranslate: Obtains a list of the language codes supported by the Translator Service.
• GetTranslations: Returns an array of alternative translations of the given text.
• GetTranslationsArray: Returns an array of alternative translations of the passed array of text.

Roadmap

API methods that are yet to be implemented., _(*3)

• TranslateArray
• DetectArray
• TransformText
• AddTranslation
• AddTranslationArray
• BreakSentences

Installation

Install badams/microsoft-translator using Composer., _(*4)

$ composer require badams/microsoft-translator

Basic Usage

use badams\MicrosoftTranslator\MicrosoftTranslator;

$clientId = 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID';
$clientSecret = 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET';

$translator = new MicrosoftTranslator();
$translator->setClient($clientId, $clientSecret);

// Translate a string of text from one language to another
$output = $translator->translate('Hello World!', $to = 'fr', $from = 'en');
echo $output; // Salut tout le monde!

// Detect the language of a string
$language = $translator->detect('Salut tout le monde!');
echo $language; // fr
echo $language->getEnglishName(); // French

//Returns a wave or mp3 stream of the passed-in text being spoken in the desired language.
$data = $translator->speak('Salut tout le monde!', 'fr');

header('Content-Type: audio/mp3');
echo base64_decode($data);

Testing

MicrosoftTranslator has a PHPUnit test suite. To run the tests, run the following command from the project folder., _(*5)

bash $ composer test, _(*6)

License

MicrosoftTranslator is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information., _(*7)