AI pattern

Translation use cases

Translating text or speech between languages, including dialects.

Use cases
17
Deployments
84
Organizations
79
Outcome disclosed
50%

17 Translation use cases

79 organizations in 17 countries run these use cases in public. 50% of those 84 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

InsuranceTravel and hospitality

AI agent for travel insurance claims and assistance

A travel insurance claims and assistance agent is an AI agent that helps insured travellers with claims and assistance around the clock, in their own language. It answers cover questions, takes claims for delays, cancellations, lost baggage and medical costs, reads the receipts and certificates travellers upload, settles simple claims within set limits, and connects medical emergencies and complex cases to the assistance team at once.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Reported automation rate
up to 70%
Allianz Partners, organization claim
Cross industryBanking

AI copilot for marketing content with compliance pre review

AI marketing content and compliance copilot drafts campaign copy and checks it against advertising rules before a human approves it for publication. It writes campaign copy, product explainers and social posts on brand and in the customer's language from approved product facts, then runs a first pass compliance check against advertising rules and required disclosures, flagging unsupported claims and missing warnings before a human in marketing compliance approves publication.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
34%
Ally Financial, organization claim
ManufacturingAutomotive

AI copilot for plant operators and maintenance technicians

A plant operator and maintenance copilot is a generative AI assistant for the people who run and repair machines in plants, workshops and service centres. It answers fault and procedure questions from equipment manuals, fault reports, shift logs and live machine data, in the technician's language, with links to the sources, so faults are diagnosed faster and expert knowledge is not lost when experienced staff retire.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported accuracy
at least 90%
Daikin Industries, organization claim
Cross industryGovernment and public sector

AI for creating employee training and eLearning content

Training content generation is AI that helps learning and development teams turn source material into employee training content. It turns procedures, product documentation and policies into course outlines, lesson text, quizzes, narration, avatar videos and translations, which instructional designers and subject matter experts review before publishing.

Deployments
9 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
90%
Zoom, vendor claim
Cross industryBanking

AI for drafting customer letters and outbound notices

AI for outbound notice drafting writes the letters and notices operations must send at scale, such as arrears notices or decline letters. It also covers complaint responses, servicing confirmations and product change notices, from case data and approved templates and clauses, in the customer's language, for a person to approve where the notice is regulated.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
25%
SS&C GIDS and RS, vendor claim
Government and public sector

AI for immigration and visa applications, from applicant questions to case preparation

An immigration and visa application assistant is AI that helps applicants understand visa requirements and submit complete applications, and helps immigration staff prepare cases. It extracts form data, classifies evidence, routes applications and supports interviews, while every grant or refusal is decided by an officer against the immigration rules.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingPayments and cards

AI for PEP and adverse media screening

AI PEP and adverse media screening continuously scans news, court records, registries and other open sources for negative information and political exposure tied to customers, counterparties and beneficial owners. It works in many languages, discards look alikes, and summarises the credible risk for the analyst with the sources attached.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Reported handling time reduction
at least 60%
Save the Children, vendor claim
Wealth and asset managementBanking

AI generated client portfolio reports and commentary

Portfolio reporting and commentary is AI that drafts each client's periodic portfolio report and commentary in plain language, for wealth and asset managers. The narrative covers performance, attribution, what drove returns, positioning and outlook, written in the client's language, where every figure comes from the portfolio system of record and a reviewer approves the text before delivery.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Media and entertainment

AI generated live sports commentary and data storytelling

AI live sports commentary turns a sporting event's own data into written commentary and insight for fans as the action happens, instead of or alongside a human broadcaster. It works from inputs such as ball and player tracking, match events and statistics, and can optionally use text to speech to voice the output for a spoken version.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Autonomous
Cross industryRetail and ecommerce

AI localization of marketing, product and web content

AI content localization translates and adapts an organization's commercial content for each market and language, so marketing and product teams can reach customers in their own language. It works across campaigns, emails, product pages, help content and websites, using the brand's glossary, style guide and past approved translations, then routes output to human linguists and local marketers for review in proportion to how visible and risky the content is.

Deployments
5 public, best grade C
Reported cycle time reduction
10x
Swarovski, vendor claim
Cross industryManufacturing

AI platform for frontline and deskless workforce communication

An AI platform for frontline and deskless workforce communication is a mobile platform that reaches employees who have no company email or desk, such as plant, store and field staff. It delivers shift schedules, safety updates and two way messaging, with AI powered machine translation showing every message in each employee's own language, and content targeted to the right site, shift or role by rule, instead of one broadcast to everyone.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Reported employee adoption
96%
Amsted Rail, vendor claim
Government and public sectorLogistics and transportation

AI sign language avatar translation for public information

Sign language avatar translation is AI that turns written content and video captions into a sign language such as British or American Sign Language, shown by a rendered signing avatar. This lets Deaf and hard of hearing people get travel updates, public information and training content without waiting for a human interpreter to be filmed or booked.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Wealth and asset managementCapital markets

AI summaries of investment research and the house view

Investment research summarization is an AI assistant that condenses long research reports, overnight market moves and the house view into short, sourced briefings for advisors and analysts. It answers "what is our view on X" on demand and adapts approved research for different client segments and languages, with every figure traced to the original research.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported time saved per task
up to 120 minutes
Deutsche Bank, organization claim
Government and public sectorHealthcare

AI support for emergency call triage (112 and 911)

AI support for emergency call triage helps 112 and 911 call takers and dispatchers handle emergency calls as they happen. It gives live transcription, translation, summaries, location cues and alerts for critical conditions such as cardiac arrest, while the call taker keeps every triage and dispatch decision.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Media and entertainmentEducation

AI transcription, subtitles and captions for audio and video

AI transcription and captioning is AI that transcribes recorded audio and video, such as podcasts, broadcasts, lessons, interviews and hearings, in several languages. It separates the speakers and produces timed transcripts, subtitles and captions for a human editor to check, delivered as files for publishing or the archive.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Reported cost reduction
50%
Warner Bros. Discovery, vendor claim
Government and public sector

AI translation and interpretation for multilingual public services

AI public service translation is AI that translates government content, documents and conversations between officials and the public, in writing and in real time speech. This lets people use public services in their own language, with human translators and interpreters reviewing anything that carries legal or safety weight.

Deployments
10 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Travel and hospitalityMedia and entertainment

AI visitor and tour guide for cities, museums and events

An AI visitor and tour guide tells visitors of cities, museums, heritage sites and events the stories behind what is around them, and answers their questions in their own language. It is often spoken, location and context aware, grounded in the organization's curated content and in the visitor's position or the object they scan.

Deployments
5 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Autonomous

What the evidence says

Computed from the 84 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Translation use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
Cycle time reduction80% vendor reported
25% to 90%
Not pooled: up to 30%
3plus 1 up to3 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    5
  • Pilot
    8
  • Production
    58
  • Scaled
    13
Public deployments by region
  • North America
    40
  • Europe
    25
  • Global
    12
  • Asia Pacific
    5
  • Middle East
    1
  • Latin America
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

  • Acentra Health
  • Allianz Partners
  • Ally Financial
  • Amsted Rail
  • Art Basel
  • AssetMark
  • Ateme
  • BBC
  • BMW Group
  • Baltimore City 911 (Emergency Communications)
  • Bloomberg Connects
  • Bosch Digital
  • Bundesliga (DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga)
  • Butler County Emergency 9-1-1
  • Cargill
  • Carlsberg Group
  • Chula Vista Police Department
  • Citi
  • City of Reno Public Safety Dispatch
  • Comeen
  • Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services
  • Daikin Industries
  • Delaware County
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Digital India BHASHINI Division
  • European Commission
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Fingerpaint
  • Galt Police Department
  • General Insurance Association of Singapore
  • Georgia-Pacific
  • HSBC
  • Health Resources and Services Administration
  • Heineken
  • Hiscox
  • Home Office (Visa, Status and Information Services)
  • Husqvarna
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Klarna
  • Levi's
  • Lionbridge
  • Madrid Destino
  • Major League Baseball (MLB)
  • Mashreq
  • Merck KGaA
  • Mondelez International
  • Montgomery County Government
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Museo Miraflores
  • National Gallery Singapore
  • Nationwide Building Society
  • OCBC
  • Onondaga County Department of Emergency Communications
  • Pacers Sports & Entertainment
  • Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
  • Quilter
  • Rail Delivery Group
  • Ryanair
  • SS&C Technologies
  • Santander UK
  • Save the Children
  • Scotiabank
  • Sveriges Television (SVT)
  • Swarovski
  • Textron Aviation
  • The Estee Lauder Companies
  • Transport for All
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection
  • U.S. Department of State (Bureau of Consular Affairs)
  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • U.S. Marshals Service
  • UBS
  • University of Florida
  • Veterans Benefits Administration
  • Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Wells Enterprises
  • Zoom