translation

The session "Meet the Translation API" at WWDC 2024 covers various aspects of integrating translation features into your app. Here's a brief overview of the key points discussed:

1. Introduction: The session begins with an overview of the translation APIs available for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, highlighting their ease of integration into apps to enhance user experience by translating user-generated content.

2. Simple Overlay Translation: A straightforward API is introduced that allows developers to add a translation overlay with minimal code. This is ideal for apps that need a quick and easy way to translate text for users.

3. Flexible Translation: For more complex scenarios, a flexible translation API is available. This allows for translating multiple strings at once and displaying translations inline with user reviews. The API uses a translation session class to handle translations asynchronously.

4. Language Support: The session discusses how to handle language availability and the use of on-device ML models for translation. It also covers how to identify the language of the text using the NL language recognizer.

5. Best Practices: Developers are advised on best practices, such as ensuring all source texts in a batch are in the same language to avoid poor results, and how to efficiently manage translation tasks and sessions.

For more detailed information, you can refer to specific sections of the session using the chapter markers provided:

• Simple overlay translation
• Flexible translation
• Language support
• Best practices