Estimated Character Count for Dynamic Translation

[steveleachman]

Hi all, 

I work for a global organisation, 17,000+ employees across 35 countries and considering making use of Dynamic Translation.  The only issues is that the recommended third party translators (IBM, Microsoft & Google) charge based on volume.  I don't want to risk implementing something which could spiral into unbudgeted costs. 

Does anyone use Dynamic Translation? What are the kinds of volume you're seeing?  

[Shivambitanwar1]

Hi Steve,

Did you find out information about this, i have the same question.

Warm Regards,

Shivambi

[steveleachman]

Hi Shivambi, 

No unfortunately not.  We've even had to put the project back because of lack of clarity.  

[Shivambitanwar1]

Hi Steve,

Here are some things that i found during my search for the details which might be helpful to you as well:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/Translator/service-limits#character-and-array-li...   Microsoft charges by number of characters sent in a request and not by volume of request.
• To create a translator resource, you will need a subscription and Api details https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/translator/
• Here are the details of pricing and the free instance allows 2M chars which i think should be sufficient to make a connection and start testing with. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/translator/
  
  I have reached out to the azure team in our company to see if this is something that is included in any existing licenses for microsoft.
  
  Warm Regards, Shivambi