Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate supports around 130 languages. It has a number of specific features.

Brevity will reduce the length of the translation output. Only available for translating into French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil), or from these languages into English.

When translating between languages, the resulting translation can sometimes be longer (in character count) than desired. This can pose a problem in certain contexts (such as captions, subtitles, headlines, or form fields) where space for extra characters is limited.

You can turn on the brevity setting when you run real-time text translations with Amazon Translate. Brevity reduces the length of the translation output for most translations (compared to the translation output without brevity).

See the Amazon reference for brevity.

See the Amazon reference for profanity filter

When you run translations with Amazon Translate, you can enable the profanity setting to mask profane words and phrases in your translation output.

To mask profane words and phrases, Amazon Translate replaces them with the grawlix string "?$#@$". This 5-character sequence is used for each profane word or phrase, regardless of the length or number of words.

Amazon Translate does not mask profanity in translation requests where the source language and target language are the same.

In some cases, a profane word in the source input might naturally become inoffensive in the translated output. In such cases, no masking is applied.

Amazon Translate detects each profane word or phrase literally, not contextually. This means that it might mask a profane word even if it's inoffensive in context. For example, if Amazon Translate detected "jerk" as a profane word, then it would write the phrase "jerk chicken" as "?$#@$ chicken", even though "jerk chicken" is inoffensive. (Here, "jerk" is used as an example only. Amazon Translate does not detect that word as profanity.)

Formality specification will allow you to specify whether or not to translate the text formal or informal. CaptionHub provides a formality setting for translation to the following target languages.