I was looking into dictionary.com word pronunciation API.They require an extra fee to use their api.
Was wondering if someone knew of some similar API's that are free?
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When I use the Google Translate web tool it breaks the translated result into short phrases and offers alternate translations for each phrase. When I read the Translate API Reference it appears that if I use the API I can only get a single translation. I want a lot of alternate translation information. Is there any way I can do this? I am willing to pay for the API, I just need this functionality.
No, in this moment there is no way to get an alternate translation through Google Translation API.
https://www.google.com/reader/api/0/stream/contents/feed/FEEDHERE?output=json&n=20
I'm using this right now to parse RSS and Atom feeds, for a lot of reasons. But there is no official API key or something so I'm afraid something may break in the future, like Google stopping my access if I make a lot of queries.
Is there an alternative to this with API keys?
I suggest trying out Simplepie, I wrote a nice RSS reader with it once. Pretty easy to use.
There are multiple alternatives.
There's Feedly. It’s not the minimalistic, omnipresent glory that is Google Reader, but it’s close, and in some ways exceeds Reader’s capabilities. They've got even a guide for transitioning.
There's NewsBlur. It's developed "in the open", aka you can just check it out on their GitHub.
There's Netvibes. However. Unlike Feedly there's no simple import route in Netvibes for integrating your Google Reader subscriptions. Instead, you need to export your Reader subscriptions as a .ZIP file, extract them to find the 'Subscriptions.xml' file and then import that into Netvibes.
There's also another question on the same subject on Stack Overflow.
And there's many more, just do a Google search.
In my (and many others') opinion, Feedly's the best alternative. But each their own. Good luck!
Try Google Feed Api, it is easy to use. It supports JSON and XML formats, but it is limited to a maximum of 250 feeds per url.
I already did similar search terms for this topic in this forum.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6151668/alternative-to-google-translate-api
But that post is a bit old.. Things may have changed for about a year. And I wonder does anybody know if there's any better REST-based API service that I can use out there since that post was last posted.
Thanks.
I guess Bing translator could be the substitute that u are looking for.
I was looking for alternatives as well and came across a npm package called google-translate-api-browser which does work for my small project, but I can't assure big data translations or requests not being throttled
I am using Google's Speech2Text API and would like to optimize the results I get, correcting misunderstood words by performing Google searches to find possible phrases within a chosen topic. Is there a service I can use for that?
No, I don't think there is a service like that already in existence. But it wouldn't be too much work to write one.
You're already using Google's API to perform the speech recognition, so presumably you'd be comfortable using it to perform a search for the "chosen topic".
Once you've done that you can take all the answer pages and concatenate them together to make a corpus of phrases that match the chosen topic. From those you can implement an algorithm to find the closest possible substring (try these). You're looking for the substring of that whole corpus that is closest to the speech recognition results you got from Google. That should give you your answer.
I am having to use the Google AdWords API for a project, I have large chunks working but I am getting frustrated with the documentation. For example I know that a TextAd headline field has a limit of 25 characters and can't have things like ! and ? in it. The documentation makes no mention of it though:
http://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/reference/v200909/AdGroupAdService.TextAd.html
Does anyone know where I can find this kind of info? This is not a question about the TextAd service, but about the documentation so that I don't have to find the limits of all these fields by trial and error.
Many thanks,
b.
This post is a bit old, but since it showed up at the top of my Google search results I though it might be worth posting a link to the limits.
A list of the limits can be found here:
https://code.google.com/apis/adwords/docs/appendix/limits.html
And I found a list of disallowed symbols here (though there might be a better source):
https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=53539
Phil
You won't find these limits in the AdWords API documentation anywhere, because these limitations are imposed by AdWords policies rather than any sort of character limit in the API.
Therefore, you must resort to AdWords documentation in order to find out things like the maximum length for an ad description or headline.
https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&query=characters&answer=6095&type=f should be a good starting point!
Cheers,
Sérgio