Translate text via Google Translate

How It Works

Maid-chan feat translate-shell provide an interface to use Google Translate as translation tool via Facebook Messenger.

maidchan.translate.get_translation(query)

Initially, Maid-chan will identify the given message in 4 parts:

• “translate” keyword (or “terjemahkan” in Bahasa)
• “from” keyword outside quotes, which is used to identify source language
• “to” keyword outside quotes, which is used to identify target language
• source text for translation

Since there are multiple mapping possibilities (“id”, “Indo”, “Indonesia” have the same meaning), “from” and “to” keywords are mapped to its appropriate language code. Currently, Maid-chan supports Bahasa Indonesia, English, and Japanese.

maidchan.translate.get_trans_language_prediction(text)

If Maid-chan could not recognize proper mapping, get_trans_language_prediction is called. This function will use Google language detection to see whether Maid-chan could map source text into 1 out of 3 supported languages.

Several default rules in Maid-chan are:

• English will be translated to Japanese
• Japanese will be translated to English
• Bahasa Indonesia will be translated to Japanese
• Default source language is Google language detection and default target language is English