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Category: HAQM Translate
Customizing your machine translation using HAQM Translate Active Custom Translation
When translating the English phrase “How are you?” to Spanish, would you prefer to use “¿Cómo estás?” or “¿Cómo está usted?” instead? HAQM Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we’re excited to introduce Active Custom Translation (ACT), a feature that gives you more control over […]
HAQM Translate now enables you to mark content to not get translated
While performing machine translations, you may have situations where you wish to preserve specific sections of text from being translated, such as names, unique identifiers, or codes. We at the HAQM Translate team are excited to announce a tag modifications that allows you to specify what text should not be translated. This feature is available […]
HAQM Translate ranked as #1 machine translation provider by Intento
Customer obsession, one of the key HAQM Leadership principles that guides everything we do at HAQM, has helped HAQM Translate be recognized as an industry leading neural machine translation provider. This year, Intento ranked HAQM 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 HAQM Translate and HAQM 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 HAQM Translate
HAQM 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 HAQM Translate
Now you can translate .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx documents using HAQM 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 HAQM Lex
Updated June 2021 – QnABot now supports voice interaction in multiple languages using HAQM LexV2. You can use HAQM 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 HAQM 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 HAQM 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 HAQM Translate to reach more international customers
HAQM 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 […]