Post

Jeff Fritz
@csharpfritz.com

Ooh! Azure Cognitive Services Translator is FREE for 2M characters a month? ok ok... this gives me zero excuses to not set up a GitHub action to add machine-generated translations to my applications. I'm going to use this action from @davidpine.bsky.social to start: github.com/IEvangelist/...

github.comGitHub - IEvangelist/resource-translator: A GitHub Action that automatically creates machine-translated PRs of translation files. Supported file formats include, .ini, .po, .restext, .resx, .xliff .js...A GitHub Action that automatically creates machine-translated PRs of translation files. Supported file formats include, .ini, .po, .restext, .resx, .xliff .json. - IEvangelist/resource-translator

10 reposts31 likes

Simon Ziegler
@simon.chameleonui.io

I used this for my FinTech app, and while it’s great for sentences, it’s poor with labels. So for instance the word “Interest” should associate with a loan interest rate, but gets associated with intellectual interest in a subject. Is there a way I can give Cognitive Services the business context?

David Pine
@davidpine.dev

I'm not sure, that's a good question. Would expending it out to “ Interest Rate” or “Interest Earned” or “Interest Amount” help? Or is that inaccurate?

Simon Ziegler
@simon.chameleonui.io

I’d do that if I could, however the terminology is quite specific and in English I need to stick to what it is. I’ve wondered about swapping to GPT 4o and having a bunch of preamble ahead of a set of words, phrases and sentences to translate. It’s a shame because the Azure API is simple, and the…