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Category: Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate ranked as #1 machine translation provider by Intento

Customer obsession, one of the key Amazon Leadership principles that guides everything we do at Amazon, has helped Amazon Translate be recognized as an industry leading neural machine translation provider. This year, Intento ranked Amazon Translate #1 on the list of top-performing machine translation providers in its The State of Machine Translation 2020 report. We are […]

Translating PDF documents using Amazon Translate and Amazon Textract

September 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. In 1993, the Portable Document Format or the PDF was born and released to the world. Since then, companies across various industries have been creating, scanning, and storing large volumes of documents in this digital format. These documents and the content within them are vital […]

Getting a batch job completion message from Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Neural machine translation is a form of language translation automation that uses deep learning models to deliver more accurate and natural-sounding translation than traditional statistical and rule-based translation algorithms. The translation service is trained on a wide variety of […]

Translating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in Office Open XML format using Amazon Translate

Now you can translate .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents using Amazon Translate. Every organization creates documents, spreadsheets, and presentations to communicate and share information with a large group and keep records for posterity. These days, we interact with people who don’t share the same language as ours. The need for translating such documents has become […]

Building a multilingual question and answer bot with Amazon Lex

Updated June 2021 – QnABot now supports voice interaction in multiple languages using Amazon LexV2. You can use Amazon Lex to build a question and answer chatbot. However, if you live in a non-English-speaking country or your business has global reach, you will want a multilingual bot to cater to all your users. This post […]

Translating presentation files with Amazon Translate

As solutions architects working in Brazil, we often translate technical content from English to other languages. Doing so manually takes a lot of time, especially when dealing with presentations—in contrast to plain text documents, their content is spread across various areas in multiple slides. To solve that, we wrote a script that translates Microsoft PowerPoint […]

Detecting and visualizing telecom network outages from tweets with Amazon Comprehend

In today’s world, social media has become a place where customers share their experiences with services that they consume. Every telecom provider wants to have the ability to understand their customer pain points as soon as possible and to do this carriers frequently establish a social media team within their NOC (network operation center). This […]

Alexa uses Amazon Translate to reach more international customers

Amazon Alexa is available in 15 locales and eight languages. To understand and respond in different languages, Alexa needs to learn new grammar rules, and the content that powers Alexa needs to be translated to new languages. Additionally, Alexa needs to learn about country-specific topics, such as new soccer leagues, regional celebrities, and important historical […]

Designing human review workflows with Amazon Translate and Amazon Augmented AI

The world is becoming smaller as many businesses and organizations expand globally. As businesses expand their reach to wider audiences across different linguistic groups, their need for interoperability with multiple languages increases exponentially. Most of the industry work is manual, slow, and expensive human effort, with many industry verticals struggling to find a scalable, reliable, […]

Translating your website or application automatically with Amazon Translate in your CI/CD pipeline

AWS allows you to deploy websites and applications globally in minutes. This means that both large enterprises and individual developers can reach users, and thus potential customers, all over the world. However, to provide the best experience, you should not only serve content close to your customers, but also make that content available in their […]