eBay is truly a world-wide marketplace, with 174 million buyers across 190 countries. Therefore, our main goal is to bring buyers and sellers from all over the globe. This is essential for the sellers community on eBay to break the language barriers and expand their the reach of their business. Machine translation is among the major factors that contribute to encouraging international trade through eBay. This is a significant way of getting rid of any friction.

The machine-language translation technology as an API in August of 2018 for our developers to use it in their apps as well as experiences. The initial API release was a test. At first, we added Mandarin to English as well as English for Mandarin translations. It was to investigate and test the possibilities. The experimental API was recently removed from the API. Our recommendation to developers to test the beta version for this API. Translation API.

The API is updated with an interface that is slightly different with the older version. Additionally, it is compatible with additional languages. The necessary details are provided in the API document. The real power of the API lies in the underlying technology. The latest models are built on our in-house AI technology, and the latest algorithms that are optimized for environment of e-commerce. The models translate the item's title and descriptions. The more than 1.4B listings is a huge quantity of information to handle. Our models have been trained to deal with all issues that sellers' information, including item titles, and descriptions.

Integrations for both buy and sell can benefit from the translation capability. Our team is currently engaging with clients and encouraging their adoption of the brand new API. Language pairs with new languages and the ability to translate description of items that incorporate HTML markup, will be available shortly. Keep an eye out! 
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