# Enable machine translation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Translations\ **Created:** [May 10, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354 "2019-05-10T07:09:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Imba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/imba/32/140531_2.png) [@Imba](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Imba)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/1 "2019-05-10T07:09:42Z")
Hi, Is it possible if you enable machine translation on Transifex? I reduce our time a lot. Thanks. Anh ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/2 "2019-05-10T07:29:09Z")
I believe we discussed this but I am not sure what the decision was @gerhard ---
**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/3 "2019-05-10T10:43:19Z")
We would need an API key for either [Google Translate](https://cloud.google.com/translate/), [Microsoft Translator](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator) or [Amazon Translate](https://aws.amazon.com/translate/). > **[Home | Transifex Help Center](https://help.transifex.com/en/)** > > Transifex Help Center ~~I guess the free 500,000 character limit per month on Google Translate would be enough. That’s roughly 6,500 chars/month/language. I don’t think we have that much new or changed text in a usual month.~~ But I worry that the translation quality might suffer. Translators need to apply a filter on Transifex to find machine translations. They might think everything’s already translated if they take only a cursory glance at Transifex now and then. I’m really on the fence here. It might be a good thing, but it could really backfire. Is it better to fallback to our English translations or have the risk of shipping machine translated strings to production? AFAIK there’s no way to filter out machine translations when we pull translations from Transifex. We would need to start pulling only reviewed translations and currently there aren’t a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Imba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/imba/32/140531_2.png) [@Imba](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Imba)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/4 "2019-05-10T10:54:31Z")
I can sponsor the API billing for few first months. ---
**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/5 "2019-05-10T11:01:32Z")
I’m not really worried about the costs. More about the quality of our translations. I don’t see a way to selectively enable machine translations just for certain languages. ---
**Author:** ![Imba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/imba/32/140531_2.png) [@Imba](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Imba)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/6 "2019-05-10T11:30:48Z")
I think it’s about the reviewer team setup and workflow. You should select the experienced ones. ---
**Author:** ![neemiasvf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neemiasvf/32/197028_2.png) [@neemiasvf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neemiasvf)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/7 "2019-05-10T17:48:59Z")
> [@gerhard](#): > > Is it better to fallback to our English translations or have the risk of shipping machine translated strings to production? Just don’t enable automatic machine translation, but let users use the feature to **help** them translate. Nothing can stop them to put literally any translation for any string there. ---
**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/8 "2019-05-12T21:03:40Z")
Oh, I see enabling machine translation adds a new button to the editor. From [Home | Transifex Help Center](https://docs.transifex.com/translation/tools-in-the-editor#shortcut-buttons:) > **Machine translate**![autotranslate.png#asset:1114](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/a/3a7e23072f990638d403a5b0d64b1ff4d57cee34.png) – Use machine translation to translate the string. You’ll need to have [Machine Translation set up](https://docs.transifex.com/setup/setting-up-machine-translation) first. ---
**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/12 "2019-05-14T11:45:12Z")
Machine Translation with the ![autotranslate.png#asset:1114](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/a/3a7e23072f990638d403a5b0d64b1ff4d57cee34.png) button in the editor is now enabled. ---
**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-machine-translation/117354/13 "2019-05-14T12:30:04Z")
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