codeforboston / maple

MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.
https://mapletestimony.org
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Research Machine Translation Providers #1556

Closed Mephistic closed 4 months ago

Mephistic commented 5 months ago

Goal

We want to be able to machine translate our in-app text into the four most common languages used in Massachusetts besides English. The solution we choose should take into account: Accuracy, Cost and Ease of Integration.

We have tentative plans to eventually also translate Bills from the MA Legislature and user testimonies - we should keep an eye to the future with our choice here (though shouldn't over-prepare - we can always switch providers later if we outgrow our needs).

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Mephistic commented 4 months ago

I think we've pretty much decided on DeepL at this point, so I think we can close this.