What Is Amazon Translate?

Amazon Translate is a text translation service that uses advanced machine learning technologies to provide high-quality translation on demand. You can use Amazon Translate to translate unstructured text documents or to build applications that work in multiple languages.

Supported Languages and Language Codes

Amazon Translate provides translation between a source language (the input language) and a target language (the output language). A source language-target language combination is known as a language pair.

Amazon Translate can translate text between the languages listed in the following table.

Language	Language Code
Afrikaans	af
Albanian	sq
Amharic	am
Arabic	ar
Azerbaijani	az
Bengali	bn
Bosnian	bs
Bulgarian	bg
Chinese (Simplified)	zh
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-TW
Croatian	hr
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dari	fa-AF
Dutch	nl
English	en
Estonian	et
Finnish	fi
French	fr
French (Canadian)	fr-CA
Georgian	ka
German	de
Greek	el
Hausa	ha
Hebrew	he
Hindi	hi
Hungarian	hu
Indonesian	id
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Korean	ko
Latvian	lv
Malay	ms
Norwegian	no
Persian	fa
Pashto	ps
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Serbian	sr
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Somali	so
Spanish	es
Swahili	sw
Swedish	sv
Tagalog	tl
Tamil	ta
Thai	th
Turkish	tr
Ukrainian	uk
Urdu	ur
Vietnamese	vi

Use Cases

Use Amazon Translate to do the following:

Enable multilingual user experiences in your applications by integrating Amazon Translate:

• Translate company-authored content, such as meeting minutes, technician reports, knowledge-base articles, posts, and more.

• Translate interpersonal communications, such as email, in-game chat, customer service chat, and more to enable customers and employees to connect in their preferred language.

Process and manage your company's incoming data:

• Analyze text, such as social media and news feeds, in many languages.

• Search for information, such as for eDiscovery cases, in many languages.

Enable language-independent processing by integrating Amazon Translate with other AWS services:

• Extract named entities, sentiment, and key phrases from unstructured text, such as social media streams with Amazon Comprehend.

• Make subtitles and live captioning available in many languages with Amazon Transcribe.

• Speak translated content with Amazon Polly.

• Translate document repositories stored in Amazon S3 .

• Translate text stored in the following databases: Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift.

• Seamlessly integrate workflows with AWS Lambda or AWS Glue.

Are You a First-time User of Amazon Translate?

If you are a first-time user, we recommend that you read the following sections in order:

1. How Amazon Translate Works – Introduces Amazon Translate.

2. Getting Started with Amazon Translate – Explains how to set up your AWS account and start using Amazon Translate.

3. Examples – Provides code examples in Java and Python. Use the examples to explore how Amazon Translate works.

4. API Reference – Contains reference documentation for Amazon Translate operations.

Amazon Translate Pricing

As with other AWS products, there are no contracts or minimum commitments for using Amazon Translate. For more information about the cost of using Amazon Translate, see Amazon Translate Pricing.