
Swindon Borough Council reduced translation costs by 99.96% using Amazon Translate and AWS cloud services, cutting annual expenses from £64,000 to £27 while improving speed from 19 days to under 15 minutes per document.


<div><p>This article describes how Swindon Borough Council used machine learning to dramatically reduce translation costs for healthcare documents.</p><ul><li>Reduced translation time from 19 days to under 15 minutes per document</li><li>Cut annual translation costs from £64,000 to £27 (99.96% reduction)</li><li>Used Amazon Translate neural machine translation service with AWS cloud services</li><li>Achieved 6.3 million percent return on investment with no upfront capital costs</li><li>Solution is user-friendly, requiring only 15 minutes to learn</li><li>Open-sourced the solution for adoption by other organizations globally</li><li>Now used by councils across UK, France, and European cities for various services</li><li>Maintains data protection and translation quality with zero clarification requests</li></ul><p>Swindon Council's Translate application demonstrates how cloud-based AI can solve real public sector challenges efficiently, with benefits extending to hospitals, schools, and charities worldwide.</p></div>


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