LaunchKit · 2026

Setup & Installation

npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-translation-text-py
or paste the link and ask your coding assistant to install it
https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-python/skills/azure-ai-translation-text-py
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What This Skill Does

Azure AI Text Translation SDK for Python wraps the Azure Translator REST API. It handles real-time translation across 100+ languages, script transliteration, language detection, dictionary lookups, and sentence boundary detection.

Batching up to 100 strings per request and using the async client cuts API round-trips significantly compared to calling a translation endpoint one string at a time.

When to use it

  • Translating user-submitted form content into a target language before storing it
  • Detecting the language of incoming support tickets to route them correctly
  • Converting Japanese text from Latin script input to Kanji output
  • Looking up dictionary entries and part-of-speech tags for language learning apps
  • Translating HTML page content while preserving markup structure