Amazon‘s cloud computing division has been working on a translation service that developers could use to make their websites and apps available in multiple languages, CNBC has learned.
Amazon already has machine-translation technology that it uses across the company to do things like provide product information in multiple languages. Now, the company is preparing to make it available through Amazon Web Services, said a source familiar with the matter. Amazon could announce the service before its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas in November.
The imminent launch comes almost two years after Amazon acquired a translation start-up called Safaba. A co-founder of Safaba, Alon Lavie, leads Amazon’s machine translation research and development group in Pittsburgh.
