Google translate api response not in target language

Question

So I was using google translate api npm @google-cloud/translate with the following input:

translate.translate('Vijayashankara', {from: 'en', to: 'hi'})

Wanted to translate 'Vijayashankara' to 'Hindi'. I get the following response:

["Vijayashankara",{"data":{"translations":[{"translatedText":"Vijayashankara"}]}}]

Is there any way for me to get the response as विजयशंकर, which is the hindi transliteration of 'Vijayashankara' ?

Answer 1

Looks like, name is 2 words.

After adding a space between words (that is, space before Capital letters), it works correctly:

Vijaya shankara converts to विजया शंकरा

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=hi&text=Vijaya%20shankara

Vijaya shankar converts to विजया शंकर

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=hi&text=Vijaya%20shankar

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More details:

As names can be written without a space, may be, google should assume the space.

It does give Did you mean: for both success & unsuccessful translation.

If unsuccessful, the source and target text will be same.
then we could use Did you mean:
however sometimes it is wrong:

VijayShankara gives the Did you mean as Vijay Shankar, but should be Vijay Shankara VijayaShankara gives the Did you mean as Vijay Shankar, but should be Vijaya Shankara

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I tried translating 'Arpit' to Hindi using the same line that you used:

translate.translate('Arpit', 'hi')

and had the same response as you.

What I did to get 'अर्पित' was to specify the source language:

const options = {
  from: "en",
  to: "hi"
}

translate.translate("Arpit", options);