Amazon Translate

• text translation (language to language one word at a time)
• 2 parts process
  1. encoder reads source ⇒ semantic representation (meaning)
  2. Decoder reads meaning ⇒ writes target language
• use attention mechanism ensure ‘meaning’ is translated
• Auto detection of source language
• use cases
  • multilingual user experience (always a component of a business process)
  • emails, in-game chat, customer live chat
  • translate incoming data
  • combined with comprehend, transcribe, polly, data in S3
  • commonly integrates with other services/ apps/ platforms