This topic walks you through the process of using the Machine Translation service, from purchasing the service to making API calls, to help you get started quickly.
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Machine Translation overview
Machine Translation uses Alibaba's advanced natural language processing (NLP) technology and vast data resources to provide businesses and developers with multilingual, multi-scenario, and multimodal translation solutions. These solutions are used in industries such as cross-border e-commerce, education, healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. The service supports 214 languages and five translation modalities: text, documents, images, speech, and video. In addition to the core machine translation capabilities, the service also includes a human-computer collaborative translation platform and an online translation platform to meet a wide range of language needs.
How to choose a Machine Translation service
For more product information, see Product overview.
Billing methods for Machine Translation
Machine Translation currently supports the following billing methods:
Pay-as-you-go: You are billed for the resources that you use.
Resource plan: A prepaid option where you purchase a resource plan based on your estimated usage to receive a discounted price.
For more information about billing, see Billing overview.
Quick start with Machine Translation
Getting started process
This guide describes the steps to activate and call the Machine Translation service.
Use the Machine Translation service
Console: You can use the service through the console. For more information, see Quick start using the console.
SDK: You can call the service APIs using the provided software development kit (SDK). For more information, see Quick start using an SDK.
HTTP: You can call the service APIs using the HTTP protocol. For more information, see Quick start using HTTP.