Machine Translation (MT) is a cost-effective way of translating content at a rapid speed. Traditionally, MT has been a mechanical, rule-based substitution of words in a source language to a target, but advances in deep learning and machine learning have yielded more advanced, high-quality translation performance.
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MT Providers and Support Languages
Smartling integrates with the following Machine Translation engines:
- Amazon Translate | Supported Languages
- Custom.MT
- DeepL (only the DeepL API Pro plan is supported) | Supported Languages
- Google MT (Google v2) | Supported Languages
- Google AutoML*(Google v3) | Supported Languages
- GPT Microsoft Azure
- GPT Open AI
- Intento | Supported Languages
- Microsoft Translator* | Supported Languages
- Prompsit | Supported Languages
- PROMT | Supported Languages
- SYSTRAN | Supported Languages
- Watson Language Translator* | Supported Languages
- Smartling Auto Select
- Copy-source-to-target
(* includes support for custom trained engines)
To connect your Smartling account to an MT engine, you will first need to activate an account with one of the above providers. Please contact your CSM for more details.
MT Profiles
MT Profiles are a collection of configurations for your MT engines used in Smartling. You can create an MT Profile to store a key, then assign that profile to different workflows. You can also use your MT credentials in the CAT Tool by designating an MT Profile. Furthermore, you can add an MT optimized glossary to any MT Profile, so that your glossary terms are used in your machine translations.
Smartling Auto Select
Smartling Auto Select is Smartling's-own MT Profile. For information on the Smartling Auto Select MT Profile, read our documentation on Smartling Auto Select.
Creating an MT Profile
For information on how to create, edit, delete and configure an MT Profile in Smartling, read our documentation on Configure MT Profiles in Machine Translation Settings.
Enabling MT Profiles in the CAT Tool
For information on how to enable MT Profiles in the CAT Tool, read our documentation on Machine Translation in the CAT Tool.
Enabling MT Profiles in Workflows
For information on how to enable MT Profiles in workflows, read our documentation on Configure MT Profiles in Workflows.
Machine Translation in the Translation Memory
For information on machine translation in the translation memory, read Machine Translation in the Translation Memory.
MT Errors
For information on MT errors, read our documentation on Troubleshooting MT Errors.
MT Profiles and Glossaries
For more information on integrating your glossary with an MT Profile, read our documentation on Insert Glossary Terms In Machine Translations.