How to Automatically Translate Text Variables into Other Languages

This article describes how to go from verbatim text responses in either a single language or multiple languages:

To a state where the responses are translated into the language of your choice in a new variable:

If you'd like to translate and categorize the text in one go using Dislpayr's text categorization tools, please see: How to Automatically Translate Text When Classifying Text Data.

Requirements

You will need a Text variable. Text variables are represented by an A next to the variable in the Data Sources tree:

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Select the text variable to be translated in the Data Sources tree.
Select + > Text Manipulation > Translate.
A new text variable will appear just below the original. The new variable will be selected and in the object inspector, you can enter a Prompt to indicate which language you'd like to translate the variable to.
Select the Source language to indicate the original text language.
1. If Auto-detect is selected as the Source language, AI will determine the source language and translate from that. This can be useful when you have mutliple languages present in the same text variable.
Click Calculate.
The new variable with the translated text will appear in your Data Sources tree.

If you want to classify the resulting text variable, see How to Classify Text Data.