Amazon Translate | General

Question 1

What is Amazon Translate?

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Amazon Translate | Machine Learning

Answer 1

Amazon Translate is a Neural Machine Translation (MT) service for translating text between supported languages. Powered by deep learning methods, the service provides high quality and affordable machine translation, enabling developers to translate company and user-authored content, or build applications requiring support across multiple languages. The service can be used via an API, enabling real-time translation of text from the source language to the target language.

Question 2

What languages are covered?

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Answer 2

We offer translation of the following six languages to and from English for Preview: Arabic, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. We will add many more languages when we make the service generally available.

Question 3

Why should I use Amazon Translate?

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Amazon Translate | Machine Learning

Answer 3

You should use Amazon Translate because it enables you to reach more customers, communicate with them more effectively, and decrease your TCO. Many businesses have large volumes of content, user or company authored; the only way to make all of it accessible in multiple languages in a timely manner is to use Machine Translation. Because Amazon Translate costs a fraction of the cost of human translation (0.05% at $15/1M characters for Amazon Translate vs $30K for human translation on average), businesses can now afford to translate content they could not before.

For Language Service Providers (LSP) and value-added resellers, Amazon Translate supports business growth and expansion. With Amazon Translate, LSPs can increase productivity by as much as 50% and produce larger volumes of translation, and produce more high-end creative content. Resellers can broaden their service portfolio without building new infrastructure or hiring staff.