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    riva-translate-1.6b

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    Enable smooth global interactions in 36 languages.

    • NVIDIA NIM
    • Neural machine translation
    • Text Translation
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    Accelerated by DGX Cloud

    Getting Started

    Riva uses gRPC APIs. Instructions below demonstrate usage of riva-translate-1_6b model using Python gRPC client.

    Prerequisites

    You will need a system with Git and Python 3+ installed.

    Install Riva Python Client

    pip install nvidia-riva-client
    

    Download Python Client

    Download Python client code by cloning Python Client Repository.

    git clone https://github.com/nvidia-riva/python-clients.git
    

    Run Python Client

    Open a command terminal and execute below command to translate text. If you have generated the API key, it will be auto-populated in the command.

    python python-clients/scripts/nmt/nmt.py \
        --server grpc.nvcf.nvidia.com:443 --use-ssl \
        --metadata function-id "0778f2eb-b64d-45e7-acae-7dd9b9b35b4d" \
        --metadata "authorization" "Bearer $NVIDIA_API_KEY" \
        --text "This is an example text for Riva text translation" \
        --source-language-code en \
        --target-language-code de
    

    List of supported source and target languages can be queried using below command.

    python python-clients/scripts/nmt/nmt.py \
        --server grpc.nvcf.nvidia.com:443 --use-ssl \
        --metadata function-id "0778f2eb-b64d-45e7-acae-7dd9b9b35b4d" \
        --metadata "authorization" "Bearer $NVIDIA_API_KEY" \
        --list-models
    

    Support for gRPC clients in other languages

    Riva uses gRPC APIs. Proto files can be downloaded from Riva gRPC Proto files and compiled to target language using Protoc compiler. Example Riva clients in C++ and Python languages are provided below.

    • Python Client Repository
    • C++ Client Repository