azure-ai-translation-text-py
Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. Use for translating text content in applications.
Documentation
Azure AI Text Translation SDK for Python
Client library for Azure AI Translator text translation service for real-time text translation, transliteration, and language operations.
Installation
pip install azure-ai-translation-text
Environment Variables
AZURE_TRANSLATOR_KEY=<your-api-key>
AZURE_TRANSLATOR_REGION=<your-region> # e.g., eastus, westus2
# Or use custom endpoint
AZURE_TRANSLATOR_ENDPOINT=https://<resource>.cognitiveservices.azure.com
Authentication
API Key with Region
import os
from azure.ai.translation.text import TextTranslationClient
from azure.core.credentials import AzureKeyCredential
key = os.environ["AZURE_TRANSLATOR_KEY"]
region = os.environ["AZURE_TRANSLATOR_REGION"]
# Create credential with region
credential = AzureKeyCredential(key)
client = TextTranslationClient(credential=credential, region=region)
API Key with Custom Endpoint
endpoint = os.environ["AZURE_TRANSLATOR_ENDPOINT"]
client = TextTranslationClient(
credential=AzureKeyCredential(key),
endpoint=endpoint
)
Entra ID (Recommended)
from azure.ai.translation.text import TextTranslationClient
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
client = TextTranslationClient(
credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
endpoint=os.environ["AZURE_TRANSLATOR_ENDPOINT"]
)
Basic Translation
# Translate to a single language
result = client.translate(
body=["Hello, how are you?", "Welcome to Azure!"],
to=["es"] # Spanish
)
for item in result:
for translation in item.translations:
print(f"Translated: {translation.text}")
print(f"Target language: {translation.to}")
Translate to Multiple Languages
result = client.translate(
body=["Hello, world!"],
to=["es", "fr", "de", "ja"] # Spanish, French, German, Japanese
)
for item in result:
print(f"Source: {item.detected_language.language if item.detected_language else 'unknown'}")
for translation in item.translations:
print(f" {translation.to}: {translation.text}")
Specify Source Language
result = client.translate(
body=["Bonjour le monde"],
from_parameter="fr", # Source is French
to=["en", "es"]
)
Language Detection
result = client.translate(
body=["Hola, como estas?"],
to=["en"]
)
for item in result:
if item.detected_language:
print(f"Detected language: {item.detected_language.language}")
print(f"Confidence: {item.detected_language.score:.2f}")
Transliteration
Convert text from one script to another:
result = client.transliterate(
body=["konnichiwa"],
language="ja",
from_script="Latn", # From Latin script
to_script="Jpan" # To Japanese script
)
for item in result:
print(f"Transliterated: {item.text}")
print(f"Script: {item.script}")
Dictionary Lookup
Find alternate translations and definitions:
result = client.lookup_dictionary_entries(
body=["fly"],
from_parameter="en",
to="es"
)
for item in result:
print(f"Source: {item.normalized_source} ({item.display_source})")
for translation in item.translations:
print(f" Translation: {translation.normalized_target}")
print(f" Part of speech: {translation.pos_tag}")
print(f" Confidence: {translation.confidence:.2f}")
Dictionary Examples
Get usage examples for translations:
from azure.ai.translation.text.models import DictionaryExampleTextItem
result = client.lookup_dictionary_examples(
body=[DictionaryExampleTextItem(text="fly", translation="volar")],
from_parameter="en",
to="es"
)
for item in result:
for example in item.examples:
print(f"Source: {example.source_prefix}{example.source_term}{example.source_suffix}")
print(f"Target: {example.target_prefix}{example.target_term}{example.target_suffix}")
Get Supported Languages
# Get all supported languages
languages = client.get_supported_languages()
# Translation languages
print("Translation languages:")
for code, lang in languages.translation.items():
print(f" {code}: {lang.name} ({lang.native_name})")
# Transliteration languages
print("\nTransliteration languages:")
for code, lang in languages.transliteration.items():
print(f" {code}: {lang.name}")
for script in lang.scripts:
print(f" {script.code} -> {[t.code for t in script.to_scripts]}")
# Dictionary languages
print("\nDictionary languages:")
for code, lang in languages.dictionary.items():
print(f" {code}: {lang.name}")
Break Sentence
Identify sentence boundaries:
result = client.find_sentence_boundaries(
body=["Hello! How are you? I hope you are well."],
language="en"
)
for item in result:
print(f"Sentence lengths: {item.sent_len}")
Translation Options
result = client.translate(
body=["Hello, world!"
Quick Info
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- antigravity
- Category
- AI & Agents
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- Feb 26, 2026
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