google transliterate vs translate api

Question

We want to transliterate sentences from English to Hindi using google cloud services or any other similar/scaled platform.

Currently we started using google translate as its transliterate api is deprecated now.

But the issue is, its translating it basis actual sentiments that we don't want:

Example:

English (Lemon Tree) ---google translate in hindi--- नींबू का पेड़

What we intend for our use case is :

English (Lemon Tree) ---google translate in hindi--- लेमन ट्री

Is there any workaround in current translation api to get transliteration or any better/stable , similar cost api which we can use for solving this use case.

Api Sources :

Currently getting used : https://cloud.google.com/translate/

Deprecated but working well: https://developers.google.com/transliterate/

Answer 1

An easy workaround if you want to use Google cloud translation api, is to pass :
(My name is "YOUR_TEXT_HERE")
as input to google Cloud Translation API and that will give you desired transliterated text inside double quotes "...". Then you can extract out your transliteration that is within " ".

In your example:
Pass Input: (My name is "Lemon Tree")
Output: (मेरा नाम "लेमन ट्री" है)

NOTE: This will unnecessarily increase your character count and hence your service bill.