24.3 aztranslate demo

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The pre-built demonstration lists all of the supported languages and then displays some of the capabilities of the package. It’s a 5 minute experience, so give it a go.

$ ml demo aztranslate

======================
Azure Text Translation
======================

Welcome to a demo of the pre-built models for Text Translation provided
through Azure's Cognitive Services. This service translates text between
multiple languages.

Press Enter to continue: 

===================
Supported Languages
===================

These are the languages supported by the Azure Translator for translation.

af       ltr Afrikaans                 Afrikaans 
...
zh-Hant  ltr Chinese Traditional       繁體中文 

That's 91 languages in total.

Press Enter to continue: 

In 2019 thre were 74 supported languages and in 2021 that became 91 supported languages.

The demo continues with translations of common phrases to multiple languages.

=============================
Text Translation from English
=============================

Below we demonstrate the translation of a variety of common phrases as we might
find when interacting with a voice command system.

    We are running late, please start without us.
...

The supplied text was detected as 'en' with a score of '1.0'.

Press Enter for a translation to French: 

    Nous sommes en retard, s’il vous plaît commencer sans nous.
...

Press Enter for a translation to Indonesian: 

    Kita terlambat, tolong mulai tanpa kita.
...

And then those translations are translated back to English:

===========================
Translation back to English
===========================

    We are late, please start without us.

    We're late, please start without us.
...

See the actual demo for the full details.



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