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SDL Language Cloud

The SDL Language Cloud service is accessible from within SDL Passolo and provides machine translation (MT) engines that generate smart automatic translation results.

Language Cloud services

  • Baseline MT Engines - For the most common of the language pairs Language Cloud has a Baseline MT engine that you can use for translating general content. For domain-specific translations, connect to specialized MT engines, provided that you have a Language Cloud subscription package that allows for this.
  • Specialized Engines - These are industry-specific MT engines that are trained using content specific to a particular domain (e.g. Automotive, Travel or Electronics). Connect to engines to get translation results that better fit the context of your source text.

Subscription packages

Subscribe to one of the available Language Cloud packages for monthly access to MT engines. Each Language Cloud package offers access to a different number of characters that you can translate from Passolo using your selected Language Cloud engines and dictionaries. For each package, you can create API keys and give access to your resources to multiple users.

Account Access

  • Create an SDL Language Cloud account and subscribe to either the free or to one of the paid MT packages. Use the Language Cloud credentials to log into your Language Cloud account in Passolo. After logging in, you can manage your Language Cloud services from Tools > Add-ins by selecting the Auto Translation add-in and then clicking Setup.
  • If you have an API Key - Log in using an API key to access the engines and dictionaries available for a Language Cloud account. API keys are usually created by the project manager to give multiple team members simultaneous access to the same Language Cloud resources. You cannot access information about the Language Cloud account when logging in with an API key.