Cloud Media Translation: Node.js Client

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Mediatranslation client for Node.js

A comprehensive list of changes in each version may be found in the CHANGELOG.

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

Quickstart

Before you begin

  1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
  2. Enable billing for your project.
  3. Enable the Cloud Media Translation API.
  4. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install @google-cloud/media-translation

Using the client library

const fs = require('fs');

// Imports the CLoud Media Translation client library
const {
  SpeechTranslationServiceClient,
} = require('@google-cloud/media-translation');

// Creates a client
const client = new SpeechTranslationServiceClient();

async function quickstart() {
  /**
   * TODO(developer): Uncomment the following lines before running the sample.
   */
  // const filename = 'Local path to audio file, e.g. /path/to/audio.raw';
  // const encoding = 'Encoding of the audio file, e.g. LINEAR16';
  // const sourceLanguage = 'BCP-47 source language code, e.g. en-US';
  // const targetLanguage = 'BCP-47 target language code, e.g. es-ES';

  const config = {
    audioConfig: {
      audioEncoding: encoding,
      sourceLanguageCode: sourceLanguage,
      targetLanguageCode: targetLanguage,
    },
  };

  // First request needs to have only a streaming config, no data.
  const initialRequest = {
    streamingConfig: config,
    audioContent: null,
  };

  const readStream = fs.createReadStream(filename, {
    highWaterMark: 4096,
    encoding: 'base64',
  });

  const chunks = [];
  readStream
    .on('data', chunk => {
      const request = {
        streamingConfig: config,
        audioContent: chunk.toString(),
      };
      chunks.push(request);
    })
    .on('close', () => {
      // Config-only request should be first in stream of requests
      stream.write(initialRequest);
      for (let i = 0; i < chunks.length; i++) {
        stream.write(chunks[i]);
      }
      stream.end();
    });

  const stream = client.streamingTranslateSpeech().on('data', response => {
    const {result} = response;
    if (result.textTranslationResult.isFinal) {
      console.log(
        `\nFinal translation: ${result.textTranslationResult.translation}`
      );
      console.log(`Final recognition result: ${result.recognitionResult}`);
    } else {
      console.log(
        `\nPartial translation: ${result.textTranslationResult.translation}`
      );
      console.log(`Partial recognition result: ${result.recognitionResult}`);
    }
  });

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. Each sample's README.md has instructions for running its sample.

SampleSource CodeTry it
Quickstartsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Translate_from_filesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Translate_from_micsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell

The Cloud Media Translation Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Supported Node.js Versions

Our client libraries follow the Node.js release schedule. Libraries are compatible with all current active and maintenance versions of Node.js.

Client libraries targeting some end-of-life versions of Node.js are available, and can be installed via npm dist-tags. The dist-tags follow the naming convention legacy-(version).

Legacy Node.js versions are supported as a best effort:

  • Legacy versions will not be tested in continuous integration.
  • Some security patches may not be able to be backported.
  • Dependencies will not be kept up-to-date, and features will not be backported.

Legacy tags available

  • legacy-8: install client libraries from this dist-tag for versions compatible with Node.js 8.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be in beta. This means it is expected to be mostly stable while we work toward a general availability release; however, complete stability is not guaranteed. We will address issues and requests against beta libraries with a high priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

Please note that this README.md, the samples/README.md, and a variety of configuration files in this repository (including .nycrc and tsconfig.json) are generated from a central template. To edit one of these files, make an edit to its template in this directory.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE