I am running test to select an MT API, and while testing the Microsoft Translator have found that I get different results for the same sentence using the API from a script than what I get when passing the whole URL to the Web Translator.
For this sentence in EN source:
AppFlow is supported on NetScaler appliances running version 9.3 and above with nCore build.
(first FAQ in https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/netscaler/12-1/networking-faq/appflow-faq.html)
I get this result for FR, when passing that single sentence for translation in the https://www.bing.com/translator page and via a Python script calling the API:
AppFlow est pris en charge sur les appliances NetScaler qui exécutent la version 9,3 et plus avec ncore Build.
However, the same sentence in the whole translated URL in Web Translator reads:
AppFlow est pris en charge sur les appliances NetScaler exécutant la version 9.3 et ci-dessus avec nCore construire.
My understanding is that the API now works with NMT by default. I would like to understand why Web Translator presents a different result. I was going to do some assessment by passing URLs into Web Translator, but if this is not using the API with NMT, then I cannot use this method.
Thank you.
Version 3 of the Translator API defaults to NMT. http://bing.com/translator also defaults to NMT. The full web page translation in bing.com and the Edge browser extension still use SMT for most language pairs, including English<>French. This is for scalability reasons.