vscode-translator-voice

This is a vscode extension for multi-language text translation and TTS (text-to-speech) using Azure Cognitive Services.

Very Important - In order to use this extension you must have a Azure Cognitive Services account with Translator Text and Speech Service resources. If you don't have it already, get one here

Features

• Text Translation (using V3 Translator API of Azure Cognitive Services)
• Text-to-speech (using neural TTS engine API of Azure Cognitive Services)
• Multi-Language support (See this for the detail)

Requirements

You must have an Azure Cognitive Services account with a Translator Text and a Speech Services resources. If you don't have an account, please create:

• Create a Cognitive Services account

Installation

• Open the Command Palette of VS Code with Ctrl + P or Cmd + P(Mac)
• And type: ext install yokawasa.vscode-translator-voice

or find at Marketplace

Usage

Configure Extension Settings

Please see Extension Settings

Select target text in your editor to translate

You need to select target text in your editor to translate. Without it, you can not execute the command.

Execute "TranslatorVoice: Translate" command

Execute TranslatorVoice: Translate command from command palette like this:

You can exectue the command with a shortcut key:CTL + Shift + T (Mac:Cmd + Shift + T) as well.

Then, translated text will be added to Output window like this:

Disable/Enable Voice feature

You can disable/enable Voice feature by (1) executing TranslatorVoice: Toggle Voice command from command palette, or (2) toggling statusBarItem named Voice [enabled/disabled] like this:

Extension Settings

Configure the extension settings through the contributes.configuration extension point.

The extension contributes the following settings:

• translatorvoice.subKeyTranslator: Subscription Key for Cognitive Translator API
• translatorvoice.subKeySpeech: Subscription Key for Cognitive Speech API
• translatorvoice.regionSpeechApi : Region for Cognitive Speech API (ex, japaneast, eastus, ...). Please refer to this page for the detail of available region for the API
• translatorvoice.targetLanguage: Target Language Code (en, fr, de, ja, zh-Hans,...). Please refer to this page for the detail of supported language code.
• translatorvoice.defaultVoiceEnabled: Whether to enabled voice capability by default: true|false
• translatorvoice.voiceGender: Default Gender for speaker (male|female)

First, open Settings editor from the following VS Code menu command or use the keyboard shortcut CTL + , (Mac: Cmd + ,).

• On Windows/Linux - File > Preferences > Settings
• On macOS - Code > Preferences > Settings

Then, choose Translator Voice Configuration in Extensions group in User settings, and finally update the settings options above.

Please see also this page for the detail of settings.

Commands & Shortcut

Change Log

See Change Log

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/yokawasa/vscode-translator-voice