Before you begin

Before you can use AutoML Translation, you must enable it for your project. Open the AutoML Translation UI and select your project from the drop-down list in the upper right of the title bar. The application walks you through the necessary steps, which are also described below.

Set up your project

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.
2. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

3. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

4. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   • Create a Google Cloud project:

     gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

     Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

   • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

     gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

     Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

5. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

6. Enable the AutoML and Cloud Storage APIs:

   gcloud services enable storage-component.googleapis.com automl.googleapis.com storage-api.googleapis.com

7. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

8. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

   gcloud init

9. Create or select a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   • Create a Google Cloud project:

     gcloud projects create PROJECT_ID

     Replace PROJECT_ID with a name for the Google Cloud project you are creating.

   • Select the Google Cloud project that you created:

     gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

     Replace PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project name.

10. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

11. Enable the AutoML and Cloud Storage APIs:

    gcloud services enable storage-component.googleapis.com automl.googleapis.com storage-api.googleapis.com

12. Set the PROJECT_ID environment variable to your Project ID.

    export PROJECT_ID=PROJECT_ID

    The AutoML API calls and resource names include your Project ID in them. The PROJECT_ID environment variable provides a convenient way to specify the ID.

Create a Cloud Storage bucket

Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket to store the sentence pairs that you will use to train your custom model. The bucket name must be in the format: project-id-vcm. The following command creates a storage bucket in the us-central1 region named project-id-vcm.

gsutil mb -p project-id -c regional -l us-central1 gs://project-id-vcm/

We recommend the following file structure for your Cloud Storage files: gs://project-id-vcm/dataset-name/documents/document-name.txt