Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to build content localization for web pages quickly and in a highly cost-efficient way with Amazon Translate, an ML-based translation service that provides powerful machine translation models behind an API endpoint for ease of access. First, we reviewed a use case for our fictitious corporation, called LiveRight Holdings, which was looking to expand internationally and needed to launch its website in four different languages in 3 weeks. LiveRight did not have the time or funding to hire experienced translators to perform the website conversion manually. The director of IT at LiveRight hired you to devise a solution that's quick and cost-effective.

For this, you designed a solution using Amazon Translate that used a Python HTML parser to extract the relevant tag content from the English version of the HTML page, translate it into German, Spanish, Hindi, and Tamil, and then create new HTML pages with the translated content included. To...