Category: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

This is a guest post from Memsource. In their own words, “By leading the industry in AI-powered translation technology, we make localization easier, faster, and more cost-effective.” Memsource and Amazon Translate are strengthening their partnership. You can now use Amazon Translate with Memsource Translate, Memsource’s machine translation (MT) management feature. Many Memsource users share a […]

With an increasing number of digital text documents shared across the world for both business and personal reasons, the need for translation capabilities becomes even more critical. There are multiple tools available online that enable people to copy/paste text and get the translated equivalent in the language of their choice. While this is a great […]

We recently announced that Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription for audio and video for 7 additional languages including Gulf Arabic, Swiss German, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Telugu, and Turkish languages.  Using Amazon Transcribe, customers can now take advantage of 31 supported languages for transcription use cases such as improving customer service, captioning and subtitling, meeting accessibility requirements, and cataloging audio […]