Amazon releases its own neural MT service

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Amazon announced this month it was releasing “Amazon Translate”. From the announcement:

Today we’re excited to make Amazon Translate generally available. Late last year at AWS re:Invent my colleague Tara Walker wrote about a preview of a new AI service, Amazon Translate. Starting today you can access Amazon Translate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) with a 2 million character monthly free tier for the first 12 months and $15 per million characters after that. There are a number of new features available in GA: automatic source language inference, Amazon CloudWatch support, and up to 5000 characters in a single TranslateText call.

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Amazon releases its own neural MT service
Roy Williams
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Austria
Local time: 10:09
German to English
Really Apr 18, 2018

This can't be good

 
Lingua 5B
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Wooah, I'm so excited. Apr 18, 2018

I'm wondering who's funding all these neural this and that, that will eventually lead to nothing. Some people really have a lot of money to waste.

I guess they need to make them appear like they work just so they can justify the money invested to sponsors.



[Edited at 2018-04-18 13:41 GMT]


 
Chiara Scanavino
Chiara Scanavino
Germany
English to Italian
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A good way to reduce the amount of work Jun 2, 2018

I've been working for them since the beginning of 2018 and I do post-editing with their new engine, ATMS. From the beginning to now, things have changed a lot. At the beginning it was horrible. Now it is quite good. However, everything depends on the language combination... For rare languages, it is not good...

 

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