Connect to Microsoft Translator from Power Apps

Microsoft Translator.

Add the Microsoft Translator connector to display translated text in a Label control in your app. For example, you can create an input text box that asks the user to enter some text to translate. In another label, you can display the translated text.

This topic shows you how to create the Microsoft Translator connection, use the Microsoft Translator connection in an app, and lists the available functions.

Prerequisites

Connect to Microsoft Translator

  1. Create a blank canvas app.

  2. In the left-hand pane, select Data tab, and then select Add data source.

  3. Select New connection, and then select Microsoft Translator:

    Connect to Microsoft Translator.

  4. Select Connect. Your connection appears under Data sources:

    Connect.

Use the Microsoft Translator connection in your app

Translate text

  1. From the Tree View on the left-side of the screen, select Insert, and then choose the Text input control. Rename the text input control to Source.

  2. Add a Drop down list (Insert menu > Controls), rename it to TargetLang, and move it below Source.

  3. Set the Items property of TargetLang to the following formula:

    MicrosoftTranslator.Languages()

  4. Add a label, move it below TargetLang, and set its Text property to the following formula:

    MicrosoftTranslator.Translate(Source.Text, TargetLang.Selected.Value)

  5. Type some text into Source, and select a language in TargetLang. The label shows the text that you entered in the language you chose:

    Translate text from English to Spanish.

Speak translated text

If you haven't already, follow the steps in the previous section to translate some text. These next steps use the same controls.

  1. Set the Items property of the TargetLang drop-down list to the following formula:

    MicrosoftTranslator.SpeechLanguages()

  2. Rename the second label (not the Source box) to Target.

  3. Add an Audio control (Insert menu > Media), and set its Media property to the following formula:

    MicrosoftTranslator.TextToSpeech(Target.Text, TargetLang.Selected.Value)

  4. Press F5, or select the Preview button (Preview icon.). Type some text into Source, select a language in TargetLang, and then select the play button in the audio control.

    The app plays an audio version of the text that you entered in the language you chose.

  5. Press Esc to return to the default workspace.

Detect the source language

These next steps use the same Source text input and Target text controls. You can create new controls if you prefer, just update the names in the formula.

  1. Select the Target text control, and set the Text property to the following formula:

    MicrosoftTranslator.Detect(Source.Text).Name

  2. Type some text into Source.

    The label shows you the language of the text that you typed. For example, the label shows French if you type bonjour, or Italian if you type ciao.

View the available functions

This connection includes the following functions:

Function Name Description
Languages Retrieves all languages that Microsoft Translator supports
Translate Translates text to a specified language using Microsoft Translator
Detect Detects source language of given text
SpeechLanguages Retrieves the languages available for speech synthesis
TextToSpeech Converts a given text into speech as an audio stream in wave format

Languages

Get languages: Retrieves all languages that Microsoft Translator supports

Input properties

None.

Output properties

Property Name Data Type Required Description
Code string No
Name string No

Translate

Translate text: Translates text to a specified language using Microsoft Translator

Input properties

Name Data Type Required Description
query string yes Text to translate
languageTo string yes Target language code (example: 'fr')
languageFrom string no Source language (if not provided, Microsoft Translator will try to auto-detect) (example: en)
category string no Translation category (default: 'general')

Output properties

None.

Detect

Detect language: Detects source language of given text

Input properties

Name Data Type Required Description
query string yes Text whose language will be identified

Output properties

Property Name Data Type Required Description
Code string No
Name string No

SpeechLanguages

Get speech languages: Retrieves the languages available for speech synthesis

Input properties

None.

Output properties

Property Name Data Type Required Description
Code string No
Name string No

TextToSpeech

Text to speech: Converts a given text into speech as an audio stream in wave format

Input properties

Name Data Type Required Description
query string yes Text to convert
language string yes Language code to generate speech (example: 'en-us')

Output properties

None.

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