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Neural Machine Translation for Government Communications

Azure AI Translator is a cloud-based neural machine translation service that enables the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to build multilingual solutions for internal applications and communications. The system uses advanced artificial intelligence to translate content across supported languages, supporting CRTC employees in their daily work. This system is developed and operated by Microsoft as a vendor service.

The translator processes text input to generate translated output, enabling seamless communication across language barriers within government operations. The service leverages neural machine translation technology to provide high-quality translations. As this is a vendor-provided cloud service, data handling and processing occur according to Microsoft's infrastructure and practices.

Status: This is an active AI system in use within the CRTC. The system does not explicitly involve personal information collection, though translations of documents may incidentally contain personal data depending on content being translated.

Government of Canada – AI Register