Using Google Translate for Haitian Creole

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Hi, 
 I have a question about API. I translate Haitian Creole and was told that I have to use an API to use Google Translate. I don't understand the process and cannot create a key. It asks me for what website I want the key and I don't know what to put there. Is there a step by step process I can access to get Haitian Creole to work in Trados?

Paul · Accepted Answer

Michelle Washington 
 I tested with 2021 and also using the very latest plugin form MT Enhanced (the one marked as Beta). It works for Google without a problem: 
 
 I did the same thing with MS Translator but this doesn't return Haitian Creole. No surprises there however as we only made a change in the source code to support this in Google: 
 
 This article explains the hack we implemented in the MT Enhanced plugin using Google to achieve this: 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2017/07/08/12-million/ 
 I checked in 2021 and we still don't have proper support for this language, most likely because Microsoft still don't provide support for this language in their LCID (Windows Language Code Identifier) Reference. 
 This also means SDL Language Cloud machine translation won't support this either... you'll only get French: 
 
 So the only way to get Haitian Creole at the moment is to use the MT Enhanced plugin set up for Google. Now, that's the theory. What we don't know is why you are getting these errors and cannot make this work as it's working just fine for me. I am suspicious that this problem is related to changes made in the Freelance version of Trados Studio 2021 with the removal of the need to select 5 languages. But for the time being let's try and clean up your Studio and see if this helps. 
 So, please do the following. First of all I'd like you to make sure you are using the latest version which should be: 
 SDL Trados Studio 2021 - 16.1.3.4096 SDL MultiTerm 2021 - 16.1.1.541 
 If you're not, then please go to this article and download and install the latest build for Studio: 
 https://gateway.sdl.com/apex/communityknowledge?articleName=CUs-Studio2021SR1 
 For MultiTerm you'll need to use the autoupdate feature because I cannot find an article for this at the moment :-( 
 Once you've updated please reset Studio and restart. It's important you completely clean things out so don't skip anything. Rename this folder (just add _old to the end or something, it's not important what you rename it to) and restart Studio: 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio16 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\16 
 So the paths would become these: 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\Studio16_old 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\16_old 
 If you can't find these folders then you need to unhide your hidden files/folders: 
 https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/ 
 Once you've done this reinstall your plugins using the integrated appstore feature in Studio. This will make it easier and faster anyway: 
 
 Then just go through and install all the plugins you wish to use and restart Studio: 
 
 Once you've done all of this let me know what the outcome is. If it still fails I do have another idea and will email you separately to test it, but please do work through all of these steps so we know you have a clean install for the next idea.

Paul · Answer

Hi, 
 
 Perhaps the best thing here is to follow the instructions here: 
 https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/setup 
 Then... if you get stuck post back in here and tell us, with screenshots which part you are stuck on. Then it might be easier to help you.

Paul · Answer

Michelle Washington 
 I think the first thing to do is remove any TMs you have got set up in the specific language pair. You may have problems due to using both All Language Pairs and the specific language pair. 
 
 That message is in your first screenshot. 
 Can you also test this language pair in a new project. Just create a single file project, don't add any TMs and only use MT Enhanced. See if that works for you? Also, what version of Studio are you using?

Paul · Answer

Sarah Mondiere 
 That is not the beginning. That is a solution to a different problem altogether. The beginning would be to install the MT Enhanced plugin, but you cannot do this with the trial version.

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Using Google Translate for Haitian Creole

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