Here is a simple demo .NET 4.5 app which will translate text to the specified language using Azure Cognitive Services. The text is received via .NET’s UI Automation feature, but this will also detect text on common Win32 controls such as menu items, which is primarily what I tested it on.
This is based on the following examples:
The Old New Thing – The managed way to retrieve text under the cursor (mouse pointer)
Cognitive Services C# Examples
The binary is available for download here, read the readme.txt, you will need Azure Cognitive Service API key to use, this can be configured in .config file. .NET 4.5 is required.
Example in action, configured to translate English to Simplified Chinese.
The list of supported languages currently include:
Afrikaans (Afrikaans)
Arabic (العربية)
Assamese (Assamese)
Bulgarian (Български)
Bangla (বাংলা)
Bosnian (bosanski (latinica))
Catalan (Català)
Czech (Čeština)
Welsh (Welsh)
Danish (Dansk)
German (Deutsch)
Greek (Ελληνικά)
English (English)
Spanish (Español)
Estonian (Eesti)
Persian (Persian)
Finnish (Suomi)
Filipino (Filipino)
Fijian (Fijian)
French (Français)
French (Canada) (French (Canada))
Irish (Gaeilge)
Gujarati (ગુજરાતી)
Hebrew (עברית)
Hindi (हिंदी)
Croatian (Hrvatski)
Haitian Creole (Haitian Creole)
Hungarian (Magyar)
Indonesian (Indonesia)
Icelandic (Íslenska)
Italian (Italiano)
Japanese (日本語)
Kazakh (Kazakh)
Kurdish (Northern) (Kurdish (Northern))
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ)
Korean (한국어)
Kurdish (Central) (Kurdish (Central))
Lithuanian (Lietuvių)
Latvian (Latviešu)
Malagasy (Malagasy)
Maori (Māori)
Malayalam (മലയാളം)
Marathi (मराठी)
Malay (Melayu)
Maltese (Il-Malti)
Hmong Daw (Hmong Daw)
Norwegian (Norsk)
Dutch (Nederlands)
Odia (Odia)
Querétaro Otomi (Querétaro Otomi)
Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ)
Polish (Polski)
Dari (Dari)
Pashto (Pashto)
Portuguese (Brazil) (Português (Brasil))
Portuguese (Portugal) (Português (Portugal))
Romanian (Română)
Russian (Русский)
Slovak (Slovenčina)
Slovenian (Slovenščina)
Samoan (Samoan)
Serbian (Cyrillic) (srpski (ćirilica))
Serbian (Latin) (srpski (latinica))
Swedish (Svenska)
Swahili (Kiswahili)
Tamil (தமிழ்)
Telugu (తెలుగు)
Thai (ไทย)
Klingon (Latin) (Klingon (Latin))
Klingon (pIqaD) (Klingon (pIqaD))
Tongan (lea fakatonga)
Turkish (Türkçe)
Tahitian (Tahitian)
Ukrainian (Українська)
Urdu (اردو)
Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
Yucatec Maya (Yucatec Maya)
Cantonese (Traditional) (粵語 (繁體中文))
Chinese Simplified (简体中文)
Chinese Traditional (繁體中文)
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