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Cloud Storage to Machine Translation

Eggs: Starting Points for Your Birds

In Blackbird, Eggs are the seeds or blueprints for your workflows. They represent the initial ideas that have the potential to become fully-fledged Birds.

In this Egg-guide, let’s explore some options to integrate cloud storage with machine translation. Find Downloadable Eggs at the end!

Process Outline

  1. Trigger: File(s) uploaded to cloud storage Users upload files to a chosen cloud storage application. This action sets our workflow into motion.
  2. File download Files are downloaded from the cloud storage.
  3. Machine translation The downloaded files are sent to a machine translation engine for quick processing.
  4. Translated file upload Translated files are uploaded back to the cloud storage, placed in a designated output folder.

Egg between Google Drive and DeepL Egg

Tips

  • Polling Events: Some apps use polling instead of webhooks to detect updated/new files. Check for an Interval tab when setting up your trigger and choose the appropriate time for you (between 5 minutes and 7 days).
  • Glossary Integration: Whenever the MT app allows it, users can add glossaries to enhance translation accuracy and consistency. Glossaries can be exported from a number of apps, and Blackbird will ensure compatibility (apps include TMS & CAT tools, Microsoft Excel sheets, DeepL, OpenAI).
  • Target language: You can select a language from the dynamic inputs of the MT app you are using. You can also use operators to cycle through a list of predefined languages (see Egg with multiple languages at the bottom and multiple language arrays right below the Tips section). Alternatively, you can also fetch this information from another app/action. It all depends on what your process looks like.
  • Optional parameters: Many MT apps offer different parameters to be set, such as dictionaries, formality, and custom engine. Check the input tab for all steps.
  • Output folder setup: When uploading your files back to the cloud storage of your choice, ensure to set up a new folder to prevent overwriting your original files or creating an infinite loop where translated files serve as a new trigger and are reprocessed.
  • Use the correct input: When re-uploading your file, be certain to select the correct input. If you choose the exported file, then you will be re-importing the same exact file, without changes. Choose the output file from the translate action instead.
  • Loops are needed: Whether to iterate through a list of target languages or to send each file within a group of downloaded files to an action that only takes one at a time, loops are the key.
  • File renaming: You can change the name of files before re-uploading them. If you want to append the target language code at the end of your file name or indicate through the file name that it has been MTed, you can use the Utilities app or other helpers. There is a downloadable workflow example for this at the bottom of the page.

Egg between Google Drive and DeepL with glossaries. Egg with Glossary

Adding an array of language codes to a loop. Multiple languages

Suggested Apps

Cloud Storage

Machine Translation

Egg between Dropbox and GlobalLink NOW Egg GL NOW

Egg between Amazon S3 and Lanugage Weaver Egg S3 Language Weaver

Download an Egg

Download JSON workflows to import into your Nest, make any desired adjustments, and fly.

Importing Eggs

To import an Egg into your Nest:

  1. Navigate to the Bird Editor section.
  2. Click on Import on the top right.
  3. Select the Egg (JSON) file to import and click Import.
  4. Identify the newly created Bird and click on it to edit it.
  5. Update the Connction details and any other needed input/output parameters or desired steps. Look for red warning signs next to the step name signaling missing details in said step.
  6. Click Save/Publish.

Importing Eggs