Seattle—April 17, 2024—Today, we are pleased to announce the release of document translation (preview) and transliteration features for Azure AI Translator containers. All Translator container customers will get these new features automatically as part of the update.
Translator containers provide users with the capability to host the Azure AI Translator API on their own infrastructure and include all libraries, tools, and dependencies needed to run the service in any private, public, or personal computing environment. They are isolated, lightweight, portable, and are great for implementing specific security or data governance requirements.
As of today’s release, the following operations are now supported when using Azure AI Translator containers:
You may want to consider Azure AI Translator containers in cases where:
Translator containers are a gated offering. You need to request container access and get approved. Refer to the prerequisites for a more detailed breakdown.
The document translation and transliteration features would be charged at different rates similar to the cloud offering.
Connected container: You're billed monthly at the pricing tier of the Azure AI Translator resource, based on the usage and consumption. Below is an example of document translation billing metadata transmitted by Translator connected container to Azure for billing.
{
"apiType": "texttranslation",
"id": "f78748d7-b3a4-4aef-8f29-ddb394832219",
"containerType": "texttranslation",
"containerVersion": "1.0.0+2d844d094c930dc12326331b3e49515afa3635cb",
"containerId": "4e2948413cff",
"meter": {
"name": "CognitiveServices.TextTranslation.Container.OneDocumentTranslatedCharacters",
"quantity": 27.0
},
"requestTime": 638470710053653614,
"customerId": "c2ab4101985142b284217b86848ff5db"
}
Disconnected container: As shown in the below usage records example, the aggregated value of ‘Billed Unit’ corresponding to the meters ‘One Document Translated Characters’ and ‘Translated Characters’ is counted towards the characters you licensed for your disconnected container usage.
{
"type": "CommerceUsageResponse",
"meters": [
{
"name": "CognitiveServices.TextTranslation.Container.OneDocumentTranslatedCharacters",
"quantity": 1250000,
"billedUnit": 1875000
},
{
"name": "CognitiveServices.TextTranslation.Container.TranslatedCharacters",
"quantity": 1250000,
"billedUnit": 1250000
}
],
"apiType": "texttranslation",
"serviceName": "texttranslation"
}
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