{"id":3584,"date":"2015-12-04T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/2015\/12\/04\/use-automatic-translation-to-increase-your-global-readiness\/"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:10:00","slug":"use-automatic-translation-to-increase-your-global-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2015\/12\/04\/use-automatic-translation-to-increase-your-global-readiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Automatic Translation to Increase your Global Readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Automatic translation<\/a>, also known as machine translation, has become commonplace for end users, popping up on the web on sites like bing.com\/translator<\/a> and within apps<\/a> like Microsoft Translator and Skype Translator<\/a>. Automatic translation is not limited to consumer focused specialty apps and websites, however. It is now used more and more by businesses worldwide in all types of industries and markets to help improve core business processes in an increasingly globalized environment. <\/p>\n

Whether you have a small business selling products online (such as on ecommerce sites like eBay or Etsy), a medium sized business that is starting to grow internationally (directly or through distributors and partners), or a multinational enterprise trying to improve internal communication, launch products internationally, or learn from the data your business generates, cloud-based automatic translation such as Microsoft Translator<\/a> is a scalable and cost-efficient solution to address these multi-language translation needs. <\/p>\n

While automatic translation may not always be the most appropriate way of translating all types of text (for example, we wouldn’t suggest using it to accurately translate your business contracts), it is often the only viable way to translate large amounts of content that would otherwise be impossible to translate by human translators. Typically, automatic translation is an effective solution when the cost requirement for translation, the sheer volume of translation needed, or the speed at which the translation needs to be made available for the user or application are blocking factors. In some situations all three factors may come into play. <\/p>\n

Although the use cases for automatic translation are numerous and the list is growing each year, there are a few sets of core scenarios where enterprises are primarily using it already. Typically, these uses cases can be categorized along the following two axes:<\/p>\n