FunTranslations Braille API

Name: FunTranslations Braille API API
Brand: FunTranslations Braille API
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For Agents

Convert English text into five different Braille output formats including raw display characters, dot patterns, Unicode glyphs, HTML entities, and image markup for accessibility and educational tools.

Connect the FunTranslations Braille API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the FunTranslations Braille API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Install Jentic One Beta (Self-Hosted)

Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with FunTranslations Braille API API.

Translate English text to Braille display characters that drive a hardware Braille display directly

Render English text as Braille image markup using GIF tiles for in-browser Braille rendering

Return per-character Braille dot patterns suitable for educational tools and custom hardware

Convert English text into Unicode Braille glyphs for plain-text accessibility output

GET STARTED

Start building with FunTranslations Braille API API

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View OpenAPI Document

The FunTranslations Braille API converts English text into multiple Braille output formats so it can be rendered on hardware Braille displays, embedded in web pages, or studied for educational purposes. The service accepts a single text query parameter and returns translations as raw Braille display characters, individual dot patterns, Unicode Braille glyphs, HTML entity strings, or pre-rendered image markup. It exposes five GET endpoints under /translate/braille and authenticates every request with an X-Funtranslations-Api-Secret header. Output formats are designed for direct consumption by accessibility software, browser-based readers, and Braille teaching tools without additional client-side conversion.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use FunTranslations Braille API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Hardware Braille Display Output

Drive a refreshable Braille display from text typed by a sighted user by sending the text through GET /translate/braille and feeding the returned display characters straight to the device. The endpoint returns characters in the encoding the display understands, so no client-side conversion table is needed.

Call GET /translate/braille with text='Fun Translations has something for everyone.' and return the translated display string.

In-Browser Braille Rendering

Display Braille on a webpage by calling GET /translate/braille/image to receive an array of img tags pointing to per-character Braille GIFs hosted by FunTranslations, or GET /translate/braille/html for HTML entity codes. Either output can be inserted into a DOM without additional fonts or libraries.

Call GET /translate/braille/html with text='Hello world' and concatenate the entity strings into an HTML span for the page.

Educational Dot Pattern Lookup

Help students learn Braille by mapping each English character to its enabled dots through GET /translate/braille/dots. The response lists the dot numbers that make up each Braille cell, which can be used to drive flashcards, practice apps, or custom non-display hardware that toggles individual dots.

Call GET /translate/braille/dots with text='cat' and return the array of dot numbers for each letter.

Agent-Driven Accessibility Conversion via Jentic

An accessibility agent receives a natural-language request such as 'show this paragraph in Braille' and uses Jentic to discover and execute the right FunTranslations Braille endpoint based on the requested output format. Jentic returns the operation schema so the agent can pass the text parameter and route the response into the user's chosen surface.

Search Jentic for 'translate text to braille', load the /translate/braille/unicode operation, and execute it with text from the user's clipboard.

Key Endpoints

5 endpoints — the funtranslations braille api converts english text into multiple braille output formats so it can be rendered on hardware braille displays, embedded in web pages, or studied for educational purposes.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/translate/braille

Translate English to raw Braille display characters

GET

/translate/braille/dots

Return enabled dot numbers per Braille cell

GET

/translate/braille/html

Translate to Braille HTML entity codes

GET

/translate/braille/image

Return img tags pointing to Braille GIFs

GET

/translate/braille/unicode

Translate to Unicode Braille glyphs

GET

/translate/braille

Translate English to raw Braille display characters

GET

/translate/braille/dots

Return enabled dot numbers per Braille cell

GET

/translate/braille/html

Translate to Braille HTML entity codes

GET

/translate/braille/image

Return img tags pointing to Braille GIFs

GET

/translate/braille/unicode

Translate to Unicode Braille glyphs

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The X-Funtranslations-Api-Secret API key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem) and injected into the request header at execution time, so the secret never enters the agent's prompt or logs.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic with a natural query like 'translate text to braille' and Jentic returns the matching /translate/braille/* operation along with its text parameter schema, removing the need to read FunTranslations docs.

Time to first call

Direct integration: roughly 30-60 minutes including key signup and per-format wiring. Through Jentic: under 5 minutes — search, load, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

FunTranslations API

Parent FunTranslations API exposing all 36 translators including Braille, Morse, Yoda, and dialects.

Pick this when the agent needs more than Braille — for example Morse code or character-speak translation in the same workflow.

Alternative

Starwars Translations API

Sibling FunTranslations service for Star Wars language translation rather than Braille output.

Choose this when the user wants Yoda, Sith, Huttese, or Mandalorian output instead of accessibility-oriented Braille.

FAQs

Specific to using FunTranslations Braille API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the FunTranslations Braille API use?

The API uses an apiKey scheme via the X-Funtranslations-Api-Secret request header. Through Jentic, the secret is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected at execution time so the agent never sees the raw key.

Can I get Braille as Unicode characters with this API?

Yes. Call GET /translate/braille/unicode with a text query parameter and the response returns an array of Unicode Braille code points (for example glyphs in the U+2800 block) corresponding to each input character.

What are the rate limits for the FunTranslations Braille API?

FunTranslations enforces tier-based daily quotas published at funtranslations.com/api/braille; free callers are capped at a small number of requests per hour while paid tiers raise the ceiling. The OpenAPI spec does not encode specific numeric limits, so check the subscription page for the current quota that applies to your key.

How do I render Braille in a browser through Jentic?

Run a Jentic search for 'render braille in html', load the GET /translate/braille/html operation, then execute it with your text. Insert the returned HTML entity strings into your DOM. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

Does the API translate Braille back to English?

No. All five endpoints translate from English to a Braille output format only; reverse translation from Braille back to English is not supported by this API.