Languages
Translate French to American English
Send source_lang FR and target_lang EN-US and the API returns American English text. Here is what makes this pair different from the others.
French
Une traduction devrait se lire comme si une personne l'avait écrite.
American English
A translation should read as if a person wrote it.
Example output produced by the vizvuz Engine and cached — not a hand-written translation.
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.
American 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.
Formality in this pair
American English has no formality distinction to switch, so the formality parameter is accepted and ignored.
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": "FR",
"target_lang": "EN-US"
}'