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Google Cloud Translation API

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What is Google Cloud Translation API?

A machine translation tool used to make apps or websites multilingual.

Categories & Use Cases

Simple and Solid translation API

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organisation, we are using Google Cloud Translation API for around 12 languages as platform languages which helps to address the multilingual experience.

Translation API improving our conversion rates and adoptions globally and it is improving the accessibility as well. We introduced i18n validation using this API.

And regarding use cases, translating all the web content, document orientated works, as mentioned above really useful for i18n automation validation to all 12 languages.


Pros

  • For sure, Accuracy is in the first place. Consistently contents are translated with accuracy
  • Ease of use - able to integrate easily with help docs.
  • Handling dynamic content very well

Cons

  • Our product deals with huge data volume, so cost is getting high when volume increase.
  • We are owing very deep and multiple level of domains, for few domains it required additional setup to avoid inaccuracy. In common translation doing pretty well but domain specific needs improvement.
  • Need improvement in one basic area, which is handling the special characters.

Return on Investment

  • Since translations are automated, without more manual effort able to deliver multilingual experience.
  • Very helpful to reach out product to non english customer countries.
  • Sometimes on domain based translations need monitoring.

Usability

Other Software Used

Playwright, Jenkins, Cursor