GoogleTrans Python not translating

Question

I am using GoogleTrans for my project. Actually I have a text in Marathi which I got from "speech to text" but when I am converting that text into English it is not translating properLY.

But when I am using Google Translate from website, it is translating properly with 100% accuracy ?

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Here is the piece of Code :

import speech_recognition as sr
from cltk.corpus.utils.importer import CorpusImporter
from googletrans import Translator
import goslate
import googletrans

print("Hello World")

filename = r"C:\Users\TOSHIBA\Documents\Mini Project-2 (Trimester 4)\Project 1- (Document Summary)\Dataset\Voice\Gaurav.wav"
r = sr.Recognizer()

with sr.AudioFile(filename) as source:
    audio_data = r.record(source)

    text = r.recognize_google(audio_data,language='mr')
    print("Text\n",text)

    print(type(text))
    
    translator = Translator()
    converted_text = translator.translate(text)
    print("Converted text\n",converted_text)

    with open("D:/output.txt",'w',encoding="utf-8") as f:
        f.write(text)
        f.write(str(converted_text))

Please suggest, what should I do?

Answer 1

https://pypi.org/project/googletrans is an unofficial package (not created by Google). Also in the disclaimer, it has the following "...this API does not guarantee that the library would work properly at all times...". If you want stability, use official Google API https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs

Anyway below is a test to show the translator work:

from googletrans import Translator

translator = Translator()
results =translator.translate('हॅलो वर्ल्ड')
print(results.text)

Output:

Hello World

I'm not sure what the issue you're experiencing. However I would suggest refactoring your code into methods and then you can test in isolation.

The code below has not been tested, but should help debug:

import speech_recognition as sr
#from cltk.corpus.utils.importer import CorpusImporter
from googletrans import Translator
#import goslate
#import googletrans

def provideAudioToText(filename):
    r = sr.Recognizer()
    with sr.AudioFile(filename) as source:
    audio_data = r.record(source)
    return r.recognize_google(audio_data,language='mr')

def translate(text):
    translator = Translator()
    results = translator.translate(text)
    return results.text

def Save(filename, original_text, converted_text):
    with open(filename,'w',encoding="utf-8") as f:
        f.write(original_text)
        f.write(str(converted_text))

original_text = provideAudioToText(r"C:\Users\TOSHIBA\Documents\Mini Project-2 (Trimester 4)\Project 1- (Document Summary)\Dataset\Voice\Gaurav.wav")
print("Text\n", original_text)
print(type(original_text))
converted_text = translate(original_text)
print("Converted text\n",converted_text)
Save("D:/output.txt", original_text, converted_text) 

Answer 2

Upgrade your googletrans module as below.

pip install googletrans==4.0.0rc1

I see the default installation googletrans uses the 3.x version and it has the problems that you mentioned above.

See the conversation on Github page

Answer 3

had same issue with 3.0.0, worked with latest version . 4.0.0rc1