Getting started with AWS Translate

Wakeupcoders - Digital Marketing & Web App Company

4 min readAug 30, 2020

Introduction of AWS Translate

AWS Translate is the neural network tool that provides outcomes faster and more reliable than conventional rule-based approaches. It supports a wide variety of languages along with personalized vocabulary that enables you to define names, organization, and how it is interpreted. It facilitates bulk / fast text data batch processing and real-time processing for fast data such as conversations, messages, etc.

Around 6,500 languages are spoken in the entire world according to one of the surveys. But I’m sure the real amount is certainly higher than that. Yeah, knowing all the languages in the universe is 99.9 percent unlikely, but we as humans are still curious to know the unknowns. So hopefully if we had a method that can convert foreign language into the one we know, it will take away the difficulty of knowing someone with a foreign language. So we’re going to concentrate on an AWS tool named Translate in this blog that does as it means, that is, it converts one language into another.

Working with AWS Translate?

The form consists of up to two encoder and decoder modules that have the source and target associated with it, it uses the process of attention to explain the meaning.
You state auto in the source language for automated identification of source language.
Below is an example that uses AWS CLI to translate English into Hindi.

Benefits of AWS Translate

Amazon Translate is a computer translation tool for neural operations. For a wide variety of use scenarios, the translation engines are often learning from new and extended datasets to create more reliable translations.
Amazon Translate reduces the hassle of using a single API call to create real-time and batch translation functionality into your applications. This makes localizing an application or website simple or processing multilingual data within your current workflows.
Using the Custom Terminology function, Amazon Translate will decide how your brand names, character names, model names, and other specific words are interpreted. The ability to configure production with Custom Language will minimize the number of translations that skilled translators need to edit, resulting in cost savings and quicker translations.
Amazon Translate scales quickly as your translation needs expand, whether it’s only a few words or vast quantities of text. Regardless of the number of translation requests you produce, the service delivers reliably swift and accurate translations.

Let's see how AWS Translate dashboard looks like :

as you can see in the below image if you want to check real-time translation you can check like this as shown in the below image. and if you want to create your own job then click on the batch translation option on the left side of your screen, using this job you can integrate with the other services and you can create your own project. we will do this in the later projects.

Feature of AWS Translate:

It supports approximately 55 languages and many more to come.
It can detect languages automatically.
Ios SDK is available which means you can use AWS Convert features directly into your smartphone device.
You just pay for what you need with Amazon Translate, making it easy and cost-effective to scale your language needs up. You are paid for the translation depending on the total number of characters submitted to the API.
Contact is secured by SSL encryption between your website or apps and the Amazon Translate program. Any content that Amazon Translate handles is encrypted and kept at rest in the AWS zone where you are using the app. Administrators can also monitor access to Amazon Translate by an authorization policy for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) — ensuring that personal information is kept safe and confidential.

hope this blog will be useful for you!!!!