Posted by the Android teamis an office suite software that lets users effortlessly view and edit all their documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and more. As a global product, WPS requires a top-notch and reliable in-suite translation technology that doesn’t require users to leave the app. To ensure all its users can enjoy the full benefits of the suite and its content in their preferred language, WPS uses the translation API from when reading, writing, or viewing their documents. According to a WPS data sample on single-day usage, there were 6,762 daily active users using ML Kit to translate 17,808 pages across all 43 of its supported languages. Students, who represent 44% of WPS’s userbase, especially rely on translation technology in WPS. WPS helps students better learn to read and write foreign languages by providing them with instant, offline translations through ML Kit.
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ML Kit provides free, offline translations
When choosing a translation provider, the WPS team looked at a number of popular options. But the other services the company considered only supported cloud-based translation and couldn’t translate text for some complex languages. The WPS team wanted to ensure all of its users could benefit from text translation, regardless of language or network availability. WPS ultimately chose ML Kit because it could both translate text offline and for each of the languages it serves.
“WPS has many African users, among whom are speakers of Swahili and Tamil, which are complex languages that aren’t supported by other translation services,” said Zhou Qi, Android team leader at WPS. “We’re very happy to provide these users with the translation services they need through ML Kit.”
What’s more, the other translation services WPS considered were expensive. ML Kit is completely free to use, and WPS estimates it's saving roughly $65 million per year by choosing ML Kit over another, paid translation software development kit.
Optimizing WPS for ML Kit’s translation API
ML Kit not only provides powerful multilingual translation but also supports , which gives users the option to download ML Kit's translation module on demand. Without App Bundle and Dynamic Delivery, users who don’t need ML Kit would have had to download it anyway, impacting install-time delivery.
“When a user downloads the WPS app, the basic module is downloaded by default. And when the user needs to use the translation feature, only then will it be downloaded. This reduces the initial download size and ensures users who don't need translation assistance won’t be bothered by downloading the module,” said Zhou.
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ML Kit’s resources made the process easy
During implementation the WPS team used and . WPS users continue to request the ability to process text on captured photos, so the company plans to use ML Kit to refine the app’s text recognition abilities as well.
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