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Ask HN: Web Application Translation

by groundthrower on 2/9/23, 2:24 PM with 0 comments

Hi!

We have a web application, in English. Our team is not big enough to manually handle translations in different languages.

I know there are dozens of Translation services available but it seems that they are used to translate a string - we want all text translated after all JavaScript is loaded.

The thing is that both Edge and Chrome has built in translator features (which I guess call their respective APIs in the background). We have tried out those and the result is usually great (at least when translating to our native language).

Is it possible to call those browser translation services manually through an JS API? Also - we already have some users using those built in translation functions - to what quota are these counted on? I mean if we would have millions of users translating our page through the browser translation service - we ourself have no agreement with the translation providers?

Any input on this?