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Reasons why a Message can't be processed with Machine translation settings

It can happen that a reporters Messages (from either app/web/phone) can’t be processed correctly when using the machine translation settings. There are a few possibilities why:

Web messages

The reporter selected a different language to the one written. The machine translation system will not understand this and will not translate the message. In the example below, the reporter selected ‘Spanish’ but wrote their message in 'Dutch'

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To view the language the reporter selected

  1. Click the 3 dot menu

  2. Click ‘view messages side by side’ to see the selected reporter language

reporter MT SBS

 reporter MT side by side
 
 
 Voice messages

 

If the reporter leaves a phone or voice app message with no speech, there will be no transcription provided. You will only see the message 'voice': 


empty voice correct

 

In all cases, you should reply to the reporter asking them to leave a new message making sure to select the right language for the web message or leaving a new voice message with their report.