Class Translator

Namespace: Kjarni
Assembly: Kjarni.dll

Translates text between languages.

public class Translator : IDisposable

Inheritance

object ← Translator

Implements

IDisposable

Examples

using var translator = new Translator(from: "en", to: "de");
Console.WriteLine(translator.Translate("The house is small."));

Constructors

Translator(string?, string?, string?, string, string?, bool)

Load a translation model, downloading it on first use.

public Translator(string? model = null, string? from = null, string? to = null, string device = "cpu", string? cacheDir = null, bool quiet = false)

Parameters

model string?

Model name, e.g. "flan-t5-base" (the default) or "flan-t5-large".

from string?

Default source language ("en", "english", ...), used when a call passes none.

to string?

Default target language, used when a call passes none.

device string

Compute device - "cpu" or "gpu".

cacheDir string?

Directory to cache downloaded models.

quiet bool

Suppress progress output.

Methods

Dispose()

Releases the native model. The object cannot be used afterwards.

public void Dispose()

~Translator()

Releases the native model if was not called.

protected ~Translator()

Translate(string, string?, string?)

Translate text. Languages left null fall back to the defaults given at construction; with neither, this throws with .

public string Translate(string text, string? from = null, string? to = null)

Parameters

text string

from string?

to string?

Returns

string