Transliteration support

dimitris rakantas 1 Reputation point
2020-07-17T15:35:31.577+00:00

Hi,
i am trying to use the transliteration api to transliterate a Japanese name. but i am getting as a response the same input(with Japanese characters). I tried the translate api with the same name and i get as response something that looks more than the transliteration response.
Does the translate api works also as transliteration for Japanese names?

example:
name(imput):ｽﾐｴ ｳﾁﾜ - transliteration(output):ｽﾐｴ ｳﾁﾜ -- translation(output):Sumie Uchiwa

name(imput):ｶｵ ｱﾉ - transliteration(output):ｶｵ ｱﾉ -- translation(output):Khao Ano

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  1. romungi-MSFT 42,286 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-07-20T17:51:40.823+00:00

    @dimitrisrakantas-7029 Could you please check the response from the transliterate API now and check if it works? Here is a screenshot of the response after this was addressed by our team.

    13016-transliterate.jpg

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  2. dimitris rakantas 1 Reputation point
    2020-07-21T06:24:03.793+00:00

    @romungi-MSFT I checked and I am still getting as a response the same input in Japanese characters

    Here is an example with my call with 10 Japanese names

    URL: https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/transliterate?api-version=3.0&language=ja&fromScript=Jpan&toScript=Latn
    Method: POST
    Header: Content-Type: application/json
    Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Region: westeurope

    Content: [ {"Text":"ｶｵﾘ ｼﾊﾞﾔﾏ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ﾅｵﾐ ｳｴﾉ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ｹﾝﾀ ｺﾞｳﾊﾗ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ﾅﾎ ﾅｶﾞﾀ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ﾀﾞｲｷ ﾅｶﾓﾄ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ﾃﾂﾌﾐ ｵｵｸｼ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ﾄｼﾕｷ ｺｼﾞﾏ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ﾑﾂｺ ｽｽﾞｷ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ｴｼﾝ ｺｼﾞﾏ","script":"jpan"},
    {"Text":"ｷｮｳｺ ｻﾄｳ","script":"jpan"}
    ]

    Response: [{
    "text": "ｶｵﾘ ｼﾊﾞﾔﾏ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ﾅｵﾐ ｳｴﾉ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ｹﾝﾀ ｺﾞｳﾊﾗ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ﾅﾎ ﾅｶﾞﾀ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ﾀﾞｲｷ ﾅｶﾓﾄ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ﾃﾂﾌﾐ ｵｵｸｼ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ﾄｼﾕｷ ｺｼﾞﾏ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ﾑﾂｺ ｽｽﾞｷ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ｴｼﾝ ｺｼﾞﾏ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }, {
    "text": "ｷｮｳｺ ｻﾄｳ",
    "script": "Latn"
    }]