Hello there and thank you very much for joining us
in this new Azure Portal How To video. Today we learn how
to find and use the Translator service in the Azure portal.
And we have Eric Winner with us that is going to show us
how to do to that. So, thank you very much for joining us
today, Eric.
Thanks, Leon. Yeah.
Today we’re going to focus on the
Translator service and how
you can find it, understand what it
does, and get some sample
code for your application. And along
the way, I’m going to show you how you can then even
learn about the other exciting cognitive services and
applied AI services in Azure.
That sounds awesome. Let’s do it.
Okay, Leon, so here we are in the Azure portal and I’m
going to show you how you can find the Translator service
and the other cognitive
services. Here in the all services
experience, we do have
filtering here, so you can find a
service by filtering for its name. And in the applied AI and
machine learning area, you can see we have all of the rich
capabilities of cognitive services and applied AI, all
published here under the
name of the service like language
and we saw vision, and here’s Translator. And from here in
one click, I can create or view the translators in my
environment and easily access the Translator service.
Let me show you yet another way.
The top level search here in the portal is very popular with
customers and there’s a spot where you can do freeform
searching and the results
are brought right here in front of
you. And so, here you can see by when I begin to search
for Translator, the service is the top match and I can click
through and navigate directly to the Translator service.
This is our default view of the Translator. You can see I
don’t have any of my environment today, but I can go
ahead and create them from here and it’ll get me directly
in there. In addition to that, the same set of services you
saw in all services are offered here on the left side for easy
navigation amongst the cognitive services capabilities.
And before I create, let me just show you the overview
page here in the cognitive services area, which offers even
more information so that you can be sure, is it the
Translator service you’re looking for or something else?
This is another area where we explain the cognitive
services collection and how it can help you in your
application, as well as categorizing the services and
showing within each card the function of the service and
quick access to the create and the view functions per
service. Here you can see we explain vision, the vision
services for analyzing content and images and videos. This
Translator service that we’re going to work through just in
a second shows you how it can detect and translate
languages, but I do want to show you this landing page
can also keep you up to date. As we develop more new
cognitive services, we can put flags here for that and also
we can offer guidance on
the applied AI service collection
that you can also see. And again, we took a similar
approach here, where we explain what each service does,
offer you even more
guidance to find just the service
you’re looking for.
Let’s go back to cognitive services and we’re going to get
started creating that Translator service.
This is the create screen for the Translator service and
with just a few clicks, I pick my resource group which
helps me organize my Azure resources. I pick the region I
want it to run in. Here I’ll choose global. I give it a name,
which I’ll then use as a
reference for my application when I
need to interact with this Translator’s instance and choose
the pricing tier and you can see there’s a variety of options
here. I’m going to pick the free ones, since I’m just trying
this service out. I’m going to jump to the end here.
That’s all I need to do. And then once we’ve validated my
entries, I’m going to go ahead and create this Translator
instance. At this point, we’re now creating the instance
that’s going to be in my
subscription in my resource group
for use by my application and it’s complete.
So, let’s jump to the resource and try it out.
Let’s have a look at see what the Translator service can do.
Here on the home page, you can see there’s a demo built
directly into this experience that lets me interact with my
Translator service and just by typing a few words here in
this left-side box, we send that string to the server, and we
get back the results here. We’ve chosen to get the results
back in Spanish. And you can see just how quick the
service is and it keeps up with my typing and I can then
decide this is exactly the kind of function that I want to
add to my application so that I can translate the various
strings into the user’s language.
Below this demo box, we
offer the requests that we push out on the wire and as well
as the response. So, as a developer, I can get comfortable
with these are the data structures I’m going to be
processing in my application and they look pretty simple
And I can even here change languages. So, if I switch it
over to French and want to see how that capability works,
I could switch it to French,
type a little more text, and just
as quick as it was for Spanish, here it is doing a translation
into French, so that’s pretty cool. I’m pretty happy with
how this works with the data structures, so the next thing
I’m going to need is some sample code to go with my
application. And that’s offered directly here as well.
Switching to sample code, I
can see in a variety of languages
here, C#, Node, Python. I can copy this sample code. I can
navigate to where it’s stored on GitHub and pretty easily
take this sample code and adapt it to my application so
that my application can leverage the Translator service and
add that capability to my application.
Thank you very much, Eric. This was great and very
simple. Please try this out. Let us know what you think.
Leave us a comment in the comment section. Also, we
have more than 60 videos showing other scenarios
that are super simple as well that we would love you to
try and leave us a comment as well. So, thank you very
much for watching. See you in the next video. Bye for now.