co-op-translator

Co-op Translator

Easily automate the translation of your educational GitHub content into multiple languages to reach a global audience.

🌐 Multi-Language Support

Supported by Co-op Translator

Overview

Co-op Translator helps you localize your educational GitHub content into multiple languages effortlessly. When you update your Markdown files, images, or notebooks, translations stay automatically synchronized, ensuring your content remains accurate and up to date for learners worldwide.

Example of how translated content is organized:

Example

Quick start

# Create and activate a virtual environment (recommended)
python -m venv .venv
# Windows
.venv\Scripts\activate
# macOS/Linux
source .venv/bin/activate
# Install the package
pip install co-op-translator
# Translate
translate -l "ko ja fr" -md

Docker:

# Pull the public image from GHCR
docker pull ghcr.io/azure/co-op-translator:latest
# Run with current folder mounted and .env provided (Bash/Zsh)
docker run --rm -it --env-file .env -v "${PWD}:/work" ghcr.io/azure/co-op-translator:latest -l "ko ja fr" -md

Minimal setup

Create a .env file using the template: .env.template
Configure one LLM provider (Azure OpenAI or OpenAI)
(Optional) For image translation (-img), configure Azure AI Vision
(Recommended) Clean up any previous translations to avoid conflicts (e.g., translations/)
(Recommended) Add a translation section to your README using the README languages template
See: Set up Azure AI

Usage

Translate all supported types:

translate -l "ko ja"

Only Markdown:

translate -l "de" -md

Markdown + images:

translate -l "pt" -md -img

Only notebooks:

translate -l "zh" -nb

More flags: Command reference

Features

Automated translation for Markdown, notebooks, and images
Keeps translations in sync with source changes
Works locally (CLI) or in CI (GitHub Actions)
Uses Azure OpenAI or OpenAI; optional Azure AI Vision for images
Preserves Markdown formatting and structure

Docs

Microsoft-specific guide

[!NOTE] For maintainers of the Microsoft “For Beginners” repositories only.

Updating the “other courses” list (for MS Beginners repositories only)

Support us and foster global learning

Join us in revolutionizing how educational content is shared globally! Give Co-op Translator a ⭐ on GitHub and support our mission to break down language barriers in learning and technology. Your interest and contributions make a significant impact! Code contributions and feature suggestions are always welcome.

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Video presentations

👉 Click the image below to watch on YouTube.

Open at Microsoft: A brief 18-minute introduction and quick guide on how to use Co-op Translator.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Interested in contributing to Azure Co-op Translator? Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how you can help make Co-op Translator more accessible.

Contributors

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.

Responsible AI

Microsoft is committed to helping our customers use our AI products responsibly, sharing our learnings, and building trust-based partnerships through tools like Transparency Notes and Impact Assessments. Many of these resources can be found at https://aka.ms/RAI. Microsoft’s approach to responsible AI is grounded in our AI principles of fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability.

Large-scale natural language, image, and speech models - like the ones used in this sample - can potentially behave in ways that are unfair, unreliable, or offensive, in turn causing harms. Please consult the Azure OpenAI service Transparency note to be informed about risks and limitations.

The recommended approach to mitigating these risks is to include a safety system in your architecture that can detect and prevent harmful behavior. Azure AI Content Safety provides an independent layer of protection, able to detect harmful user-generated and AI-generated content in applications and services. Azure AI Content Safety includes text and image APIs that allow you to detect material that is harmful. We also have an interactive Content Safety Studio that allows you to view, explore and try out sample code for detecting harmful content across different modalities. The following quickstart documentation guides you through making requests to the service.

Another aspect to take into account is the overall application performance. With multi-modal and multi-models applications, we consider performance to mean that the system performs as you and your users expect, including not generating harmful outputs. It’s important to assess the performance of your overall application using generation quality and risk and safety metrics.

You can evaluate your AI application in your development environment using the prompt flow SDK. Given either a test dataset or a target, your generative AI application generations are quantitatively measured with built-in evaluators or custom evaluators of your choice. To get started with the prompt flow sdk to evaluate your system, you can follow the quickstart guide. Once you execute an evaluation run, you can visualize the results in Azure AI Studio.

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