Configuring automatic suggestions

Changed in version 4.13: Prior to Weblate 4.13, the services were configured in the Configuration.

The support for several machine translation and translation memory services is built-in. Each service can be turned on by the administrator for whole site or at the project settings:

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Note

They come subject to their terms of use, so ensure you are allowed to use them how you want.

The services translate from the source language as configured at Component configuration, see Source language.

Amagama

Service ID

amagama

Configuration

This service has no configuration.

Special installation of tmserver run by the authors of Virtaal.

Apertium APy

Service ID

apertium-apy

Configuration

url

API URL

A libre software machine translation platform providing translations to a limited set of languages.

The recommended way to use Apertium is to run your own Apertium-APy server.

AWS

New in version 3.1.

Service ID

aws

Configuration

key

Access key ID

secret

API secret key

region

Region name

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service for translating text to and from English across a breadth of supported languages.

Baidu

New in version 3.2.

Service ID

baidu

Configuration

key

Client ID

secret

Client secret

Machine translation service provided by Baidu.

This service uses an API and you need to obtain an ID and API key from Baidu to use it.

DeepL

New in version 2.20.

Service ID

deepl

Configuration

url

API URL

key

API key

DeepL is paid service providing good machine translation for a few languages. You need to purchase DeepL API subscription or you can use legacy DeepL Pro (classic) plan.

API URL to use with the DeepL service. At the time of writing, there is the v1 API as well as a free and a paid version of the v2 API.

https://api.deepl.com/v2/ (default in Weblate)

Is meant for API usage on the paid plan, and the subscription is usage-based.

https://api-free.deepl.com/v2/

Is meant for API usage on the free plan, and the subscription is usage-based.

https://api.deepl.com/v1/

Is meant for CAT tools and is usable with a per-user subscription.

Previously Weblate was classified as a CAT tool by DeepL, so it was supposed to use the v1 API, but now is supposed to use the v2 API. Therefore it defaults to v2, and you can change it to v1 in case you have an existing CAT subscription and want Weblate to use that.

The easiest way to find out which one to use is to open an URL like the following in your browser:

https://api.deepl.com/v2/translate?text=Hello&target_lang=FR&auth_key=XXX

Replace the XXX with your auth_key. If you receive a JSON object which contains “Bonjour”, you have the correct URL; if not, try the other three.

Weblate supports DeepL formality, it will choose matching one based on the language (for example, there is de@formal and de@informal).

Glosbe

Service ID

glosbe

Configuration

This service has no configuration.

Free dictionary and translation memory for almost every living language.

The API is gratis to use, but usage of the translations is subject to the license of the used data source. There is a limit of calls that may be done from one IP in a set period of time, to prevent abuse.

See also

Glosbe website

Google Translate

Service ID

google-translate

Configuration

key

API key

Machine translation service provided by Google.

This service uses the Google Translation API, and you need to obtain an API key and turn on billing in the Google API console.

Google Translate API v3

Service ID

google-translate-api-v3

Configuration

credentials

Google Translate service account info

project

Google Translate project

location

Google Translate location

Machine translation service provided by Google Cloud services.

LibreTranslate

New in version 4.7.1.

Service ID

libretranslate

Configuration

url

API URL

key

API key

LibreTranslate is a free and open-source service for machine translations. The public instance requires an API key, but LibreTranslate can be self-hosted and there are several mirrors available to use the API for free.

https://libretranslate.com/ (official public instance)

Requires an API key to use outside of the website.

Microsoft Terminology

New in version 2.19.

Service ID

microsoft-terminology

Configuration

This service has no configuration.

The Microsoft Terminology Service API allows you to programmatically access the terminology, definitions and user interface (UI) strings available in the Language Portal through a web service.

Microsoft Translator

New in version 2.10.

Service ID

microsoft-translator

Configuration

key

API key

endpoint_url

Application endpoint URL

base_url

Application base URL

Available choices:

api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com – Global (non-regional)

api-apc.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com – Asia Pacific

api-eur.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com – Europe

api-nam.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com – North America

api.translator.azure.cn – China

region

Application region

Machine translation service provided by Microsoft in Azure portal as a one of Cognitive Services.

Weblate implements Translator API V3.

Translator Text API V2

The key you use with Translator API V2 can be used with API 3.

Translator Text API V3

You need to register at Azure portal and use the key you obtain there. With new Azure keys, you also need to set region to locale of your service.

Hint

For Azure China, please use your endpoint from the Azure Portal.

ModernMT

New in version 4.2.

Service ID

modernmt

Configuration

url

API URL

key

API key

See also

ModernMT API,

MyMemory

Service ID

mymemory

Configuration

email

Contact e-mail

username

Username

key

API key

Huge translation memory with machine translation.

Free, anonymous usage is currently limited to 100 requests/day, or to 1000 requests/day when you provide a contact e-mail address in email. You can also ask them for more.

See also

MyMemory website

Netease Sight

New in version 3.3.

Service ID

netease-sight

Configuration

key

Client ID

secret

Client secret

Machine translation service provided by NetEase.

This service uses an API, and you need to obtain key and secret from NetEase.

SAP Translation Hub

Service ID

sap-translation-hub

Configuration

url

API URL

key

API key

username

SAP username

password

SAP password

enable_mt

Enable machine translation

Machine translation service provided by SAP.

You need to have a SAP account (and the SAP Translation Hub enabled in the SAP Cloud Platform) to use this service.

You can also configure whether to also use machine translation services, in addition to the term database.

Note

To access the Sandbox API, you need to set url and key.

To access the productive API, you need to set url, username and password.

tmserver

Service ID

tmserver

Configuration

url

API URL

You can run your own translation memory server by using the one bundled with Translate-toolkit and let Weblate talk to it. You can also use it with an amaGama server, which is an enhanced version of tmserver.

  1. First you will want to import some data to the translation memory:

build_tmdb -d /var/lib/tm/db -s en -t cs locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
build_tmdb -d /var/lib/tm/db -s en -t de locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
build_tmdb -d /var/lib/tm/db -s en -t fr locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
  1. Start tmserver to listen to your requests:

tmserver -d /var/lib/tm/db
  1. Configure Weblate to talk to it, the default URL is http://localhost:8888/tmserver/.

Weblate

Service ID

weblate

Configuration

This service has no configuration.

Weblate machine translation service can provide translations for strings that are already translated inside Weblate. It looks for exact matches in the existing strings.

Weblate Translation Memory

New in version 2.20.

Service ID

weblate-translation-memory

Configuration

This service has no configuration.

Use Translation Memory as a machine translation service. Any string that has been translated in past (or uploaded to the translation memory) can be translated in this way.

Yandex

Service ID

yandex

Configuration

key

API key

Machine translation service provided by Yandex.

This service uses a Translation API, and you need to obtain an API key from Yandex.

Youdao Zhiyun

New in version 3.2.

Service ID

youdao-zhiyun

Configuration

key

Client ID

secret

Client secret

Machine translation service provided by Youdao.

This service uses an API, and you need to obtain an ID and an API key from Youdao.

Custom machine translation

You can also implement your own machine translation services using a few lines of Python code. This example implements machine translation in a fixed list of languages using dictionary Python module:

# Copyright © Michal Čihař <michal@weblate.org>
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later

"""Machine translation example."""

import dictionary

from weblate.machinery.base import MachineTranslation


class SampleTranslation(MachineTranslation):
    """Sample machine translation interface."""

    name = "Sample"

    def download_languages(self):
        """Return list of languages your machine translation supports."""
        return {"cs"}

    def download_translations(
        self,
        source,
        language,
        text: str,
        unit,
        user,
        search: bool,
        threshold: int = 75,
    ):
        """Return tuple with translations."""
        for t in dictionary.translate(text):
            yield {"text": t, "quality": 100, "service": self.name, "source": text}

You can list your own class in WEBLATE_MACHINERY and Weblate will start using that.