Languages
Translate English to French
Send source_lang EN and target_lang FR and the API returns French text. Here is what makes this pair different from the others.
English
A translation should read as if a person wrote it.
French
Une traduction devrait se lire comme si une personne l'avait écrite.
Example output produced by the vizvuz Engine and cached — not a hand-written translation.
English
English is the shortest of the supported languages in almost every measurement, which is why interfaces designed in English tend to break when translated into anything else.
Script: Latin · Family: West Germanic
British and American spelling, date order and vocabulary differ enough to matter; choose EN-GB or EN-US explicitly instead of bare EN.
French
French runs fifteen to twenty per cent longer than English and requires non-breaking spaces before high punctuation, which is a typographic rule and not a preference.
Script: Latin · Family: Romance
The space before ; : ! ? must be a narrow no-break space; a plain space causes the punctuation to wrap onto the next line.
Formality in this pair
Vous and tu are distinct registers; French commercial writing uses vous almost universally.
Ready-made request
curl -X POST https://api.vizvuz.com/v1/translate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer vz_live_xxxxxxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"text": ["…"],
"source_lang": "EN",
"target_lang": "FR"
}'