Intermittent 401001 Error in Azure Translator API Despite Valid Access Token
Hi Azure team, I’m facing an intermittent issue while integrating the Azure AI Text Translator API with a backend application using a token generated via Azure AD client credentials flow. 🔍 Problem: The access token is retrieved successfully using an…
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English to Portuguese (Portugal) translation is not accurate, but closely matching with Portuguese (Brazil)
We found Azure Translator provides very poor translations, especially when translating from English -> Portuguese (Portugal) because the response is much closer to Portuguese (Brazil) not Portuguese (Portugal). The following is an example: English:…
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How to fix TargetFileAlreadyExists error
I consistently get the following error when I have translated several different files: azure.core.exceptions.HttpResponseError: (TargetFileAlreadyExists): Target document file already exists. 127.0.0.1 - - [10/Jul/2025 10:23:40] "POST…
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Why Bing Translate fails to translate a Chinese passage
Use the following interface to automatically detect the language and convert it to English: https://api.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/translate?api-version=3.0&to=en: …
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Error al subir glosario y memoria de traducción: "Failed to extract the contents of the uploaded file"
Hola, Estoy intentando subir dos tipos de archivos a Azure Custom Translator dentro de un workspace propio, donde tengo permisos de Owner y una suscripción activa (S1, región West Europe): Un archivo .xlsx como Sentence dictionary Un archivo .tmx como…
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Hola @AzureSupport, eliminé por error un recurso Cognitive Services (SIENS-Linguistics) vinculado a un modelo en Custom Translator. No tengo plan de soporte de pago. ¿Hay alguna forma de recuperar el recurso o los datos? Gracias.
Hola, eliminé por accidente un recurso de Cognitive Services llamado SIENS-Linguistics (región West Europe, grupo de recursos AzureSIENSraiz) el 4 de julio de 2025 a las 18:13 CEST. Este recurso estaba vinculado a un modelo entrenado en el portal de…
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ValidationFailed Error when getting async Documenttranslation status
Understood. Here's the cleaned-up version of the post without emojis or informal language, ready for professional forums like Microsoft Q&A, Stack Overflow, or GitHub: Azure Document Translator API — ValidationFailed with "Documents Summary:…
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Azure AI Translator Models Stuck in "Training running" Status for 10 Days
Two Azure AI Translator model trainings were initiated on 6/13 and have been stuck in "Training running" status for the past 10 days. Initially thought to be a temporary issue, the extended processing time is now a concern as the models are…
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Azure AI Translator – How to prevent translation of XLIFF <ph> tag attributes?
Hello, I'm using the Azure AI Translator API to translate XLIFF files (version 1.2 format). My XLIFF files contain <ph> (placeholder) tags inside the <source> element, such as: <trans-unit id="1"…
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A web app is not able to access Storage account SAS URL within VNET.
Hello Team, I have a use case, where I have a web app (Python-based), that lets us translate documents using azure document translator API. As per the documentation, azure document translator begin_translation needs and for the documents. All my…
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WEB API end points
I am trying to connect my ServiceNow instance to the MS Azure translator. I do not see the Test translator http link for text translation in Endpoint as it was there 6 months ago per all of the videos provided in ServiceNow documentation and various…
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Need Help Uploading Document Pairs to Azure AI Translator – Error: "Document may be corrupt or have an invalid extension"
Hi everyone, I'm encountering an issue while uploading document pairs to Azure AI Translator services. Here's the situation: I have around 50 DOCX file pairs that I've placed in a ZIP file for uploading; I've successfully done the same process with…
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How to Resolve Random Placement of Placeholders in Microsoft Custom Translator Output?
I am working with two language pairs (en-> fr), (en-> es), and the custom models are working fine, but they contain many placeholders and those are just being placed randomly in the target text. This, of course, affects the translation output since…
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Why punjabi to english azure document translator not working.
We are trying to run azure AI document translator on Punjabi text pdf and output language as English. But translator service is returning error with details "The document does not have any translatable text". English to Punjabi translation is…
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Custom translator model is generating additional/unnecessary characters
I have noticed an issue where the training mechanism seems to be adding unexpected characters to the test-output/trained model, but only for one of my models. I have two separate Custom Models that I am training via Azure Translator. One for each…
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Get help with the detect
Hi all, I am currently trying to translate Turkish text into English and back and forth. The translation itself works fine, but the input language detection is not so good. If suppose, I pass mixed text that contains both Turkish and English text, then…
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Dynamic Dictionary (AI Cognitive service) not working as expected
Hi all, I am using the Translation Text api to translate some text from one language to another. Now we have a requirement to preserve some words during the translation and so we are trying to use the dynamic dictionary feature. However, what we see is…
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Azure translation issue(from English to Chinese), unnecessary extra spaces appear in the generated document when a glossaries is used.
We use the Azure Translator tool for document translation (translating English documents into Chinese documents). When a glossary is used, the generated Chinese document contains unnecessary spaces between each Chinese character. If the glossary is not…
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HTML translation to sr-Cyrl incorrectly handles notranslate elements
Hi, When we try to translate the following text: "Text is: <span class='notranslate'>Do not translate</span>" or "Text is: <span translate='no'>Do not translate</span>" From en to sr-Cyrl using the…
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Custom translator XLIFF training document upload error: Failed to extract the contents of the uploaded file.
When trying to upload training documents in format XLIFF (2.0 or 1.2) at portal.customtranslator.azure.ai the uploads always fail with "Failed to extract the contents of the uploaded file." I don't get any indication of failure on upload page,…