[firestore-Translate Text] Hindi as a source language isn't getting translated

[itssidhere]

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your configuration

• Extension name: _ firestore-translate-text
• Extension version: _0.1.5
• Configuration values (redact info where appropriate):
  • _ Target languages - en,es,de,fr,hi,tl
  • _

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

When I am setting the text to be translated in Hindi, the text isn't getting translated. Though it works in google translator.

Steps to reproduce:

Set the text "Mera naam siddharth hai"

Expected result

en: My name is Siddharth

Actual result

Mera naam Siddharth hai

[jhuleatt]

@itssidhere can you please post the configuration you used for the extension (step 2 in the issue template)? Hindi is a supported language, and should be configured as hi

[itssidhere]

I mean it gets translated to Hindi but not from Hindi @jhuleatt . It gets translated from every language except hindi.

[itssidhere]

@jhuleatt I get the same text as the source from the extension when the input data is in Hindi. Can you try reproducing it from the steps I have mentioned, please?

[dackers86]

hi @itssidhere.

I have managed to successfully replicate the issue. Interestingly, this works as expected through Google Translate...

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hi&tl=en&text=Mera%20naam%20siddharth%20hai&op=translate

Using Hindi scripture also seems to work as expected...

but not when using Mera naam siddharth hai through the extension.

The extension utilises the Node Api library, which under the hood calls the v2 rest Api endpoint. This endpoint returns the same response...

https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=

Body:

{
  "q": ["Mera naam siddharth hai"],
  "target": "en"
}

Response:

{
    "data": {
        "translations": [
            {
                "translatedText": "Mera naam siddharth hai",
                "detectedSourceLanguage": "hi"
            }
        ]
    }
}

[itssidhere]

@dackers86 This also happens with the ML kit.

[yamankatby]

Hi there, This doesn't seem to be an issue in the extension since the translation API returns the same response.

TL;DR;

As I understood, the provided example sentence isn't official Hindi, it's something called "Hindi Latin-Phonetics". It's not official and not widely supported, however, some translating services such as translate.google.com (the website) use an extra algorithm called phonetics converter allows non-Latin languages to be written with Latin characters.

For example, translation from Arabic using Latin letters: