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vam-google · web-flow · commit 8bf7ac04cedf · 2017-08-30T12:59:34.000-07:00
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diff --git a/branches/snehashah-snippets/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/translate/snippets/DetectLanguageAndTranslate.java b/branches/snehashah-snippets/google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/translate/snippets/DetectLanguageAndTranslate.java
@@ -42,16 +42,19 @@ public static void main(String... args) {
     // environment variable
     Translate translate = TranslateOptions.getDefaultInstance().getService();
 
-    // Detect the language of some text
-    Detection detection = translate.detect("Hola");
+    // Text of an "unknown" language to detect and then translate into English
+    final String mysteriousText = "Hola Mundo";
+
+    // Detect the language of the mysterious text
+    Detection detection = translate.detect(mysteriousText);
     String detectedLanguage = detection.getLanguage();
 
-    // Translate some text
+    // Translate the mysterious text to English
     Translation translation = translate.translate(
-        "World",
-        TranslateOption.sourceLanguage("en"),
-        TranslateOption.targetLanguage(detectedLanguage));
+        mysteriousText,
+        TranslateOption.sourceLanguage(detectedLanguage),
+        TranslateOption.targetLanguage("en"));
 
-    System.out.printf("Hola %s%n", translation.getTranslatedText());
+    System.out.println(translation.getTranslatedText());
   }
 }
diff --git a/branches/snehashah-snippets/google-cloud-translate/README.md b/branches/snehashah-snippets/google-cloud-translate/README.md
@@ -108,10 +108,16 @@ Add the following import at the top of your file:
 import com.google.cloud.translate.Detection;
 ```
 
+Then pick a text sample:
+
+```java
+final String mysteriousText = "Hola Mundo";
+```
+
 Then add the following code to detect the text's language:
 
 ```java
-Detection detection = translate.detect("Hello, World!");
+Detection detection = translate.detect(mysteriousText);
 String detectedLanguage = detection.getLanguage();
 ```
 #### Translating text
@@ -126,13 +132,13 @@ import com.google.cloud.translate.Translate.TranslateOption;
 import com.google.cloud.translate.Translation;
 ```
 
-Then add the following code to translate a text (specifying its source language):
+Then add the following code to translate the text, specifying the previously detected language (`detectedLanguage`) as its source language and English as the target language (providing the source language is optional, if it is not specified the service will try to detect it automatically):
 
 ```java
 Translation translation = translate.translate(
-    "World",
-    TranslateOption.sourceLanguage("en"),
-    TranslateOption.targetLanguage(detectedLanguage));
+    mysteriousText,
+    TranslateOption.sourceLanguage(detectedLanguage),
+    TranslateOption.targetLanguage("en"));
 ```
 
 #### Complete source code
