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[Matthew McGowan <matthew.joseph.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have not used the translate service in a while. If it is good enough to
justify the additional latency, then we should totally play around with the
idea.  I am inclined to think if we did do this, rather than a "translate
all foreign language reviews" type option, we should make it a per review
option (if that makes sense?).


Matt

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Aaron Peachey <alpeachey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> An interesting idea on bug # 780504 to use a google translate api python
> library to translate reviews into a user's local language.
>
> http://www.catonmat.com/blog/python-library-for-google-translate
>
> The library looks like it would be quite easy to utilise for this and may
> be a more elegant solution than the one we discussed at UDS. Or perhaps the
> two could go hand in hand. (e.g. "Show reviews in other languages, and
> translate for me")
>
> Some considerations would be
> - the licence (it's MIT) and whether we can use that in this project
> - the speed - would possibly be two hits on the api per review (summary and
> review body) which could add up as we load 10 at a time (we may be able to
> counter this with an opt-in to translate approach that pre-warns of the
> potential speed hit and network activity), and
> - relying on an external service provider's free service over which we have
> no control
>
> Any thoughts?
> Aaron
>
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