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Termit is an easy way to use Google Translate in your terminal. You can check out its node.js npm version normit

Installation

gem install termit

Usage

termit 'source_language' 'target_language' 'text'

Example:


termit en es "hey cowboy where is your horse?"
=> "Hey vaquero dónde está tu caballo?"

termit fr en "qui est votre papa?"
=> "Who's Your Daddy?"

Parenthesis are not necessary for text data input:

termit fr ru qui est votre papa?
=> "Кто твой папочка?"

Speech synthesis

Specify a -t (talk) flag to use speech synthesis (requires mpg123):

termit en zh "hey cowboy where is your horse?" -t
=> "嘿，牛仔是你的马在哪里？" # and a chinese voice says something about a horse

You can use termit as a speech synthesizer of any supported language without having to translate anything:

termit en en "hold your horses cowboy !" -t
=> "hold your horses cowboy !" # and an english voice asks you to hold on

Synonyms

Specify a -s (synonyms) flag to get the list of synonyms if available:

termit es en muchacho -s
=> boy
=> Synonyms: boy, lad, youngster, laddie, cully

Learning language when committing to git

Idea by Nedomas. See and hear your messages translated to target lang every time you commit. You can do this two ways: overriding the git command, and using a post-commit hook in git.

Override the git command (zsh only)

In ~/.zshrc

export LANG=es
git(){[[ "$@" = commit\ -m* ]]&&termit en $LANG ${${@:$#}//./} -t;command git $@}

I am no shell ninja so if you know how to make it work in bash then please submit a PR.

Using a post-commit hook

Add a file named post-commit to your project's .git/hooks directory, with this in it:

termit en es "`git log -1 --pretty=format:'%s'`" -t

Remember to switch the languages according to your preference.

If you want this to be in every one of your git repositories, see this Stack Overflow answer.

Language codes:

  • english - en
  • polish - pl
  • french - fr
  • spanish - es
  • slovakian - sk
  • chinese - zh
  • russian - ru
  • automatic source language detection - auto

To find all available language codes visit https://developers.google.com/translate/v2/using_rest#language-params.

Requirements

Works with Ruby 1.9.2 and higher.

To use speech synthesis you need to have mpg123 installed.

For Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install mpg123

For MacOSX:

brew install mpg123