How to use Google Translate in Matlab? - matlab

Question

I am writing a program to list all unique words in a movie subtitle file using Matlab. Now I have a unique word list that I want to translate to my language and learn the meaning before watching the movie.
Does anyone know how can I use Google Translate in Matlab so that I can complete my script? Is there any web service or so, and how can I use it in Matlab?
Thanks,
Appendix 1:
I have found this code useful:
%build url and send to google
url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate';
page = urlread(url, 'get', {'v', '1.0','q', inputString,'langpair', [sourceLanguage '|' destLanguage]});
but I don't know why it returns error each time I run it (e.g. 403 or 400). I know that my internet connection is okay when testing.

Answer 1

For a simple translator (I have no idea about quality), maybe try this. I didn't bother parsing the output:
langCodes = urlread('http://www.transltr.org/api/getlanguagesfortranslate'); % find your language code
textToTranslate = 'rabbit'; %change
langCodeOfOrigText ='en';
langCodeOfTranslation ='es';
translateURL = 'http://www.transltr.org/api/translate';
translateResults = urlread(translateURL, 'get', {'text',textToTranslate,'to',langCodeOfTranslation,'from',langCodeOfOrigText});
Just see next to translationText of the output for the result. Like I said, you can parse it, just google for a json to matlab struct parser.