Using Google Cloud Translation API (Google Translate) with Trados

In this article, I make a demo of utilizing Google Cloud Translation (Google Translate) service within Trados project. We need an API key of Google Cloud Platform for Google Cloud Translation service, which I will explain later.

WARNING: Using Google Translate may violate your non-disclosure agreement with your translation customer. Check with your customer prior to connecting to this translation provider. The use of Google Translate is recorded in the SDL XLIFF bilingual file during translation.

In short, your translation and your client's content will be availble in Google Translate service, which breaks your confidentiality obligation with your client.

趣旨：トラドスにおけるGoogle自動翻訳（Google Translate）の活用、Google Cloud Translation API
警告：Google Translateを活用するとクライアントとの守秘義務を違反することになりかねるため、事前にクライアントと確認する必要がある。

For safety, you should use Google Automated Translation to translate terms, phrases, sentences etc. not relating to your client.

Step 1: Open your Trados project > 'Project Settings' > 'Translation Memories and Automated Translation' > 'Use...' > 'Google Cloud Translation API...'

Step 2: Warning "...data will no longer be deemed confidential and could be stored by the third party supplier to train its machine translation engines. ..." > 'Yes'

Step 3: 'Google Cloud Platform' sceen. Input your API Key or click 'Click here to obtain your API Key from Google' (will open https://console.developers.google.com/cloud-resource-manager↗).

Step 4: Google Cloud Platform API enabled with your API key.

Step 5: Google's Automated Translation appears in TM (translation memory) panel with 'AT' tag.

Press Ctrl+T to insert this Google's automated translation:

How to get a Google Cloud Translation API

Open this page: https://console.developers.google.com/cloud-resource-manager↗

Click '+CREATE PROJECT' and follow instructions.

You might need to submit your billing information (such as credit card ...), in my case, I use my old billing information and 'Back' button so I do not need to submit my real credit card information. I don't know if this works for you or not.

Google Cloud Translation API is a priced service:

However, at this moment, you can try it for free for 12 months:

For detail steps, please see our Facebook Page's album for getting a Google Cloud Translation API here.
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