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Machine Translation Settings

 

Machine Translation Settings allow you to manage your global machine translation configurations. From your Machine Translation Settings, you can:

  • Manage your provider credentials to access the MT provider or LLM of your choice (from the Provider Credentials tab)
  • Create MT Profiles to customize the translation output (from the Profiles tab), and then
  • Assign each MT Profile to a range of machine translation integrations to display machine translations where they are needed (from the Settings tab).

How to access your Machine Translation Settings 

To access your machine translation settings, navigate to your Account Settings from the top navigation and select Machine Translation Settings.

Your Machine Translation Settings are grouped into the following tabs:

  • Provider Credentials
  • Profiles 
  • Settings

Provider Credentials tab

To access and use an MT provider or LLM of your choice*, you will need to store your provider key and credentials in Smartling. This can be done from the Provider Credentials tab.

*See a list of supported MT providers and LLMs here

Tip: For more information on creating and managing provider credentials, please visit this article.

The provider credentials can then be added to an MT Profile and used for translation in Smartling.

Profiles tab

Once the provider credential has been saved successfully, it can now be used to create an MT Profile. An MT Profile allows you to configure additional preferences to further customize the translation output. This can be done from the Profiles tab.

In the Profiles tab, you can also find Smartling's proprietary MT Profile, Smartling Auto Select, which intelligently routes your content to the highest performing MT provider for each language.

Tip: For more information on creating and managing MT Profiles, please visit this article.

Your MT Profiles can then be used to translate your content, by using an MT workflow, by providing MT suggestions to your linguists in the CAT Tool, or by using one of Smartling's MT integrations that display machine translations directly where they are needed.

Settings tab

The Settings tab allows you to enable and configure the MT Profiles you want to use to translate your content with one of Smartling's MT integrations, or to provide MT suggestions in the CAT Tool.

Click into the following tabs to configure the MT Profile you want to use for each area:

With these integrations, content is not uploaded to Smartling in the form of strings and does not go through a translation workflow. Instead, machine translations are displayed directly where they are needed, with minimal configuration for near-instant results.

Tip: You can also configure language-specific MT Profiles for each integration.

MT Profiles in the CAT Tool

  1. Go to Account Settings > Machine Translation Settings
  2. On the Settings tab, click the CAT Tool tab
  3. Toggle the Enable MT in the CAT Tool switch on
    • Toggle the switch off to disable machine translation
  4. Choose a default MT Profile from the dropdown
  5. (Optional) Define language-specific rules to use different MT Profiles for different languages in the CAT Tool. For example, you can define "Google MT" as your default MT Profile and "Microsoft MT" for French and Spanish.
  6. (Optional) Select one or more glossaries to enable Glossary Term Insertion for Machine Translation.

Tip: For more information, read MT in the CAT Tool.

MT Profiles in Smartling Translate

  1. Go to Account Settings > Machine Translation Settings
  2. On the Settings tab, click the Smartling Translate tab
  3. Toggle the Enable MT in Smartling Translate switch on
    • Toggle the switch off to disable machine translation
  4. Choose a default MT Profile from the dropdown
  5. (Optional) Define language-specific rules to use different MT Profiles for different languages in Smartling Translate. For example, you can define "Google MT" as your default MT Profile and "Microsoft MT" for French and Spanish. 
  6. (Optional) Select one or more glossaries to enable Glossary Term Insertion for Machine Translation.

Tip: For more information, read our documentation on Smartling Translate.

Using MT Profiles to translate content with Smartling's MT API

  1. Go to Account Settings > Machine Translation Settings
  2. On the Settings tab, click the API tab
  3. Toggle the Enable MT in the API switch on to enable machine translation
    • Toggle the switch off to disable machine translation
  4. Choose a default MT Profile from the dropdown
  5. (Optional) Define language-specific rules to use different MT Profiles for different languages in the API. For example, you can define "Google MT" as your default MT Profile and "Microsoft MT" for French and Spanish. 
  6. (Optional) Select one or more glossaries to enable Glossary Term Insertion for Machine Translation.

Tip: For more information, read our API documentation on Machine Translation.

MT Profiles for site-wide machine translations with the GDN

To enable site-wide machine translation with the Global Delivery Network:

  1. In your GDN project, click the Settings tab
  2. On the left-hand menu, click Machine Translation
  3. Under Automatic Machine Translation, toggle the switch to ON

Next, configure your preferred MT Profile to translate your website:

  1. Go to Account Settings > Machine Translation Settings
  2. On the Settings tab, click the GDN tab
  3. Toggle the Enable MT in the GDN switch on to enable machine translation
    • Toggle the switch off to disable machine translation
  4. Choose a default MT Profile from the dropdown
  5. (Optional) Define language-specific rules to use different MT Profiles for different languages in the API. For example, you can define "Google MT" as your default MT Profile and "Microsoft MT" for French and Spanish. 
  6. (Optional) Select one or more glossaries to enable Glossary Term Insertion for Machine Translation.

Tip: For more information, read our documentation on the GDN.

MT Profiles in the Zendesk Support Plugin

  1. Go to Account Settings > Machine Translation Settings
  2. On the Settings tab, click the Zendesk Support Plugin tab
  3. Toggle the Enable MT in the Zendesk Support Plugin switch on to enable machine translation
    • Toggle the switch off to disable machine translation
  4. Choose a default MT Profile from the dropdown
  5. (Optional) Define language-specific rules to use different MT Profiles for different languages in the Zendesk Support Plugin. For example, you can define "Google MT" as your default MT Profile and "Microsoft MT" for French and Spanish. 
  6. (Optional) Select one or more glossaries to enable Glossary Term Insertion for Machine Translation.

Tip: For more information, read our documentation on the Zendesk Support Plugin.

MT Profiles in the ServiceNow Connector

  1. Go to Account Settings > Machine Translation Settings
  2. On the Settings tab, click the ServiceNow tab
  3. Toggle the Enable MT for ServiceNow switch on to enable machine translation
    • Toggle the switch off to disable machine translation
  4. Choose a default MT Profile from the dropdown
  5. (Optional) Define language-specific rules to use different MT Profiles for different languages in the ServiceNow Connector. For example, you can define "Google MT" as your default MT Profile and "Microsoft MT" for French and Spanish. 
  6. (Optional) Select one or more glossaries to enable Glossary Term Insertion for Machine Translation.

Tip: For more information, read our documentation on Dynamic Translation with the ServiceNow Connector. 

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