Chapter 17. Cloud Translation: multilanguage machine translation
This chapter covers
- An overview of machine translation
- How the Cloud Translation API works
- How Cloud Translation pricing is calculated
- An example of translating image captions
If you’ve ever tried to learn a foreign language, you’ll recall that it starts out easy with vocabulary problems where you memorize the foreign equivalent of a word you know. In a sense, this is memorizing a simple map from language A to language B (for example, houseInSpanish = spanish['house']), shown in figure 17.1.
Figure 17.1. Mapping of English to Spanish words
Although this process is challenging ...
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