What is Machine Translation (MT)?

Automatic translation of text by software — today almost always neural networks such as Google Translate or DeepL — without human involvement.

In more depth

Modern neural MT is good enough to publish for most content types, with human review reserved for legal, brand and high-conversion copy. Cost is per character at wholesale API rates.

Why it matters for your website

Understanding Machine Translation (MT) helps you make better decisions when taking a WordPress site multilingual — from choosing URL structures and engines to controlling costs. Transxlate handles the mechanics (language URLs, lang attributes, caching, hreflang on Pro) so terms like this become settings, not engineering projects.

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