The translation assistant (preview) in ArcGIS Instant Apps can be used to generate translations for your app text into multiple languages. The translation assistant (preview) uses artificial intelligence (AI) machine translation to generate translations for custom input text in your app.
Get started
To get started with the translation assistant (preview), do the following:
- Open an app's configuration.
- Click Language Switcher from the pane on the left side to open the language switcher configuration options.
- Turn on the Language switcher toggle button.
- In the Language settings section, select the languages to be translated from the drop-down menu and click Translation configuration.
- From the Translation configuration window, provide app text for different elements of the app.
- Click Translation assistant (preview) to generate translations for the provided text.
Note:
Your ArcGIS Online administrator needs to configure assistants before you can access the translation assistant (preview).
Credits
Using the translation assistant (preview) does not consume credits.
Security and privacy
The translation assistant (preview) aligns with the following principles:
- Prompts are not used to train Esri or third-party AI models.
- Prompts are not used to improve any Esri or third-party product or service.
- Prompts are not stored or shared.
- Prompts are not used to improve the assistant for your own use.
AI transparency cards are available with more security and privacy details.
Limitations
Translations generated by the translation assistant (preview) can be misleading or inaccurate. To avoid potentially reinforcing any unintentional biases in the AI models used by the translation assistant (preview), human judgment should be applied to interpreting and acting upon the assistant's outputs. The assistant uses machine translation and is not intended to replace human translators.
Resources
Use the following resources to learn more: