Intento plugin settings

Intento is a machine translation service aggregator. It offers more than 25 services from different MT providers including Amazon, Baidu, DeepL, Google, and Microsoft (see the complete list below). Use this plugin to set up Intento's services in memoQ.

  • AISA Neural Machine Translation API
  • Alibaba Cloud (E-commerce & General Edition)
  • Amazon
  • Baidu
  • CloudTranslation
  • DeepL (v1 and v2)
  • Elia Elhuyar
  • Globalese
  • Google Cloud Advanced Translation API
  • Google Cloud AutoML Translation API
  • Google Cloud Basic Translation API
  • GTCOM Yeecloud Machine Translation API
  • IBM Watson
  • Kakao Developers
  • Kawamura International NMT
  • Kingsoft AIDAtrans Translation API
  • Microsoft (v2 and v3)
  • ModernMT Human-in-the-loop
  • Naver Papago NMT (API & Commercial)
  • NiuTrans
  • Prompsit
  • PROMT Cloud API
  • Rozetta T-400
  • RWS Language Weaver API
  • SAP Translation Hub
  • SDL Enterprise Translation Server
  • SDL Language Cloud (SMT)
  • SYSTRAN Translate Pro
  • Tencent Cloud
  • Tilde
  • XL8
  • Yandex Cloud (v1 and v2)
  • Youdao

How to get here

  1. At the top of the memoQ window, click the Resource console Resource console icon. icon. The Resource console window opens.
  2. In the Server URL list, choose or type the server's address. Or, to see local resources only, choose My computer. Click the Select Select icon. button.
  3. In the left-side pane, click the MT settings MT settings icon. icon. The MT settings pane appears.
  4. For projects with more than one target language: In the top-right corner, choose a language from the Target language dropdown list if needed. Or, to use the same MT settings for all target languages, do not change the default value (All languages).
  5. Select the MT settings resource you are using, and click Edit under the list.
  6. On the Services tab, find the plugin and click its row. If it is active, click its row to open the Intento plugin settings window. If it is grayed out, click its row once to turn it on, then click it again to open the settings.

Intento plugin settings window with two options to connect to Intento MT HUB and select provider, billing account, Model, glossary, and provider-agnostic glossaries.

To start using MT providers, set up the plugin:

  1. Get access to the service: Register at https://console.inten.to, and get an API key.

    If you have a subscription to one or more MT services, you can connect them to your Intento account. Then you can use them via the Intento MT plugin.

  2. Click the Enter your API key button.

  3. In the Intento API key box, paste the API key.

  4. To confirm: Click the Test and save button. If the key is valid, the Change MT settings button becomes available.

At this point, other fields can't be manually edited.

What can you do?

By default, Intento chooses the best service for your content, not considering what the content is about ("Smart Routing"). To use a domain-specific routing instead:

  1. Click the Change MT settings button. The Configure machine translation window opens.

    Built-in help: To learn more about certain parts of this window, click the question mark icons.

  2. In the Select MT provider automatically based on the Intento Benchmarks dropdown, choose a domain-specific option.

    Configure machine translation window with Select MT Provider automatically based on the Intento Benchmarks dropdown, where you can select a domain-specific option for intento to choose your provider.

    At this point, the Provider dropdown is grayed out.

  3. Click the Test and save button. Intento will manage all the services, and you will pay Intento for using machine translation services.

This setting sends data to more than one MT provider: Intento regularly evaluates MT providers. When you use this setting, the Intento plugin sends the source segments to a few MT services (chosen based on the latest evaluation), and chooses the best service for the language pair you are using.

If you want to choose your MT provider on your own and don't want to use Intento's routing:

  1. Click the Change MT settings button. The Configure machine translation window opens.

  2. In the Select MT provider automatically based on the Intento Benchmarks dropdown, choose Disabled.

    Window showing Select MT Provider automatically based on the Intent Benchmarks dropdown with Disabled option selected.

    At this point, the Provider dropdown becomes available.

    From here you can:

If you don't have a subscription to the MT service, you will pay Intento for using it.

  1. In the Provider dropdown, choose an MT service.
  2. In the Billing account dropdown, choose via Intento.
  3. If the MT service has any settings, those appear under the Billing account field. Set these as needed.
  4. To confirm: Click the Test and save button.

If you have a subscription to one or more MT services, you can set those up in the Intento plugin. This way, you will pay each service provider separately.

  1. In the Provider dropdown, choose an MT service.

  2. In the Billing account region, click the link under the account selector dropdown.

    The Intento console website opens in a browser. Sign in, and connect the MT services.

  3. To refresh the account list for this service: Click the Refresh intento-refresh button.

  4. In the account selector dropdown, click the account you need.

  5. If the selected MT service has any settings, those appear after the Billing account region. Set these as needed.

  6. To confirm: Click the Test and save button.

If you have more than one subscription, repeat the above steps as needed.

If an MT service allows using custom engines, you can set them up like this:

  1. In the Configure machine translation window's Model region, check the Use custom MT model check box.

  2. Copy and paste your custom engine's ID text into the text field. If you see a dropdown here, you can also choose an existing engine.

Configure machine translation window showing Model field active with Use custom MT model option activated.

You do not need your own account for this: You can use custom models without subscribing to MT providers. Just choose the via Intento billing account from the dropdown.

If an MT service provider allows it, you can add custom glossaries and customize MT with your terminology.

Configure machine translation window showing Glossary field active with visible glossaries to choose from.

Intento Glossaries work in a provider-agnostic fashion. The terminology can be applied from providers that natively support terminology and those that do not have this feature yet.

Intento allows using glossaries with some MT services - so that you can apply your terminology with MT services that don't natively support terminology (and some that do). You need to add such glossaries in the Intento Console.

To learn more: Read about Intento Glossaries and supported MT providers.

Using a proxy server may help protecting your privacy. To access Intento's service via a proxy server:

  1. At the bottom of the Intento plugin settings window, click the Advanced button.
  2. In the Advanced settings window, check the Enable proxy server check box.
  3. Enter the proxy server's name or IP address, then the port number.
  4. To set a user name and password for the proxy server, check the Authorization required check box, and fill in the two text boxes.
  5. To confirm: Click the Save button.

Normally, Intento does not store your source or target text after translation. This can make troubleshooting difficult. If you turn on logging for a time, Intento support can check your problem more easily. To do this:

  1. At the bottom of the Intento plugin settings window, click the Advanced button.
  2. In the Advanced settings window, check the Log translation text for 30 minutes check box.
  3. To confirm: Click the Save button.

Intento will not use your texts for any other purpose, and they will delete them in a month. Still, check with your customer if you are allowed to send text samples.

When you finish

To save the settings and return to the Default resources tab of the Options window (or to the Resource console): Click OK, then click OK again.

To return to the Default resources tab of the Options window (or to the Resource console), without saving the new settings: Click Cancel, then click Cancel again.

To use the MT output in the translation editor:

  1. Open a project with a supported language pair.
  2. On the left side of the Project home or memoQ online project screen, click Settings.
  3. In the top bar, click the MT settings  icon.
  4. Choose the MT profile in the project, or one you want to add to the project. Below the list, click Edit.
  5. On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.
  6. On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, in the Translation results area, choose a setting other than Off.

  7. To improve the MT service by sending your translations to them: In the Self-learning MT dropdown, select the plugin.

    Check your contracts first: Only do this if your data protection, confidentiality, or non-disclosure agreements allow it.

  8. Open a document for editing, and see the machine-translated suggestions.

To use the MT output in pre-translation:

  1. Open a project with a supported language pair.
  2. On the left side of the Project home or memoQ online project screen, click Settings.
  3. In the top bar, click the MT settings  icon.
  4. Choose the MT settings resource in the project, or one you want to add to the project. Below the list, click Edit.
  5. On the Services tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, check the plugin's check box on the left.
  6. On the Settings tab of the Edit machine translation settings window, select the plugin from the Pre-translation dropdown.
  7. Run Pre-translate. In the Pre-translate and statistics window, check the Use machine translation if there is no TM match check box. (memoQ will remember this.)