Swindon Borough Council, GB builds rapid document translation tool with Amazon Translate

Swindon Borough Council, GB Amazon Translate Document

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The council's Emerging Technologies and Paediatric Therapy Service teams sought a cost-effective method for communicating in 100 languages. Swindon tested machine-learning systems with evaluations conducted by volunteer translators. The Amazon Translate platform was used to create a translation tool with an average processing time of 14 minutes instead of 12 days using agency translators. Borough officials expanded the tool's use to other departments for more accessible public documents.

Health & Human Services Machine Learning Translation Accessibility

Swindon Borough Council, GB

Unitary authority in England

United Kingdom

Vendors

Amazon

Amazon is an international e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.

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Swindon Council Case Study Amazon Translate

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Council slashes translation costs with machine learning - Cities Today

Swindon Council in the UK deployed a machine learning solution which cut content translation costs from £160 (US$203) per document to just 7p and reduced turnaround time from weeks to minutes.

Project Succeeded

Swindon Borough Council reduced translation costs from £159.81 per document to £0.07 per document.

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