Lecto Translation API

Features

• Fast, high quality Translation API powered by Neural Machine Translation models.
• Free Translation API plan with paid plans as low as $0.3 per million characters.
• Text/HTML/JSON translation
• Multiple source texts and target languages in a single request.
• Protected JSON values: Skip translations as desired with JSON data payload.

What it does

The Lecto Translation API provides the following endpoints. For details, please refer to sub-sections below which give details and request/response examples for each endpoint.

• Translate texts: POST /v1/translate/text. Batch translate array of texts into multiple target languages. You can send multiple source texts from the same language and translate them in one-shot into multiple target languages.

• Translate JSON Payload: POST /v1/translate/json. Translate JSON values from JSON formatted strings into multiple target languages, with protected keys feature available.

• Detect Language: POST /v1/detect/text. Send array of source texts in request body and receive JSON response with the detected language codes.

• List Languages: GET /v1/translate/languages. Get a list of supported languages for translation in ISO-639-1, ISO-639-2 or BCP-47 formats. We support more than 90 languages at present as follows. The language codes presented are in ISO-639-1 format unless stated otherwise below.

  • af - “Afrikaans”
  • sq - “Albanian”
  • am - “Amharic”
  • ar - “Arabic”
  • hy - “Armenian”
  • az - “Azerbaijani”
  • be - “Belarusian”
  • bn - “Bengali”
  • bs - “Bosnian”
  • bg - “Bulgarian”
  • ca - “Catalan”
  • ceb - “Cebuano” (ISO-639-2)
  • zh-CN - “Chinese (Simplified)” (BCP-47)
  • zh-TW - “Chinese (Traditional)” (BCP-47)
  • hr - “Croatian”
  • cs - “Czech”
  • da - “Danish”
  • nl - “Dutch”
  • en - “English”
  • et - “Estonian”
  • tl - “Filipino”
  • fi - “Finnish”
  • fr - “French”
  • fy - “Frisian”
  • gl - “Galician”
  • ka - “Georgian”
  • de - “German”
  • el - “Greek”
  • gu - “Gujarati”
  • ht - “Haitian Creole”
  • ha - “Hausa”
  • he - “Hebrew”
  • hi - “Hindi”
  • hu - “Hungarian”
  • is - “Icelandic”
  • ig - “Igbo”
  • id - “Indonesian”
  • ga - “Irish”
  • it - “Italian”
  • ja - “Japanese”
  • kn - “Kannada”
  • kk - “Kazakh”
  • km - “Khmer”
  • ko - “Korean”
  • lo - “Lao”
  • lv - “Latvian”
  • lt - “Lithuanian”
  • lb - “Luxembourgish”
  • mk - “Macedonian”
  • mg - “Malagasy”
  • ms - “Malay”
  • ml - “Malayalam”
  • mr - “Marathi”
  • mn - “Mongolian”
  • my - “Myanmar (Burmese)”
  • ne - “Nepali”
  • no - “Norwegian”
  • or - “Odia (Oriya)”
  • ps - “Pashto”
  • fa - “Persian”
  • pl - “Polish”
  • pt-PT - “Portuguese”
  • pt-BR - “Portuguese (Brazil)”
  • pa - “Punjabi”
  • ro - “Romanian”
  • ru - “Russian”
  • gd - “Scots Gaelic”
  • sr - “Serbian”
  • sd - “Sindhi”
  • si - “Sinhala”
  • sk - “Slovak”
  • sl - “Slovenian”
  • so - “Somali”
  • es - “Spanish”
  • su - “Sundanese”
  • sw - “Swahili”
  • sv - “Swedish”
  • ta - “Tamil”
  • th - “Thai”
  • tr - “Turkish”
  • uk - “Ukrainian”
  • ur - “Urdu”
  • uz - “Uzbek”
  • vi - “Vietnamese”
  • cy - “Welsh”
  • xh - “Xhosa”
  • yi - “Yiddish”
  • yo - “Yoruba”
  • zu - “Zulu”