Does the transliteration feature have arabic to english transliteration and vice versa within the scope?

Question

I want to use the Translator REST API for Microsoft Azure to transliterate arabic text to english and vice versa. However, i can not find the supported languages in the documentation. All I can find is an API endpoint to get the language conversions within the scope, but I don not know if I can use that API without an active Azure subscription.

Answer 1

Hello @Marwan Abdelrady , Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A Platform.

Regarding your question, Arabic to English transliteration and vice versa this is not supported. Arabic ``<--> ``Latn is supported. The Transliterate operation in the Text Translation feature supports the following languages that is listed in the documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/translator/language-support#transliteration

Coming to another question, to use the Transliterate feature, you need an active Azure subscription and an access key, endpoint and region from the Azure resource.

Please go through the required parameters and headers list: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/translator/reference/v3-0-transliterate#request-parameters

There are three headers that you can use to authenticate your subscription you can refer to. The first option is to authenticate using the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header. Add the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: <YOUR_SECRET_KEY> from the Azure resource as a header to your request.

Here is a sample how I retrieved Transliterate from Arabic to Latin.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Vasavi

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