{"id":"f6e01f31-fa28-4565-8151-421c51d8806e","task":"Configure Adaptive Translation in Google Cloud Translation v3 (Advanced) to steer tone and terminology using a small set of example sentence pairs","domain":"cloud.google.com","steps":["Enable the Cloud Translation API on a project and set up authentication (the Advanced/v3 edition, not Basic v2, is required for adaptive translation)","Prepare source/target sentence pairs (TSV or TMX) — at least 5 pairs, up to 30,000 via the API, each segment pair capped around 512 characters","Create a dataset from the sentence pairs, or skip dataset creation and pass up to 5 pairs inline via referenceSentenceConfig.referenceSentencePairs","Call the adaptive translation method (REST or gRPC, Advanced edition only) referencing either the dataset or the inline reference pairs plus target language","Compare adaptive output against a plain translateText call on the same strings to confirm the style/terminology shift is actually applied"],"gotchas":["Adaptive Translation is only available on Cloud Translation - Advanced (v3); it is not exposed on the Basic (v2) API surface","It works by conditioning an LLM on your examples per request, not by training a persistent custom model — quality depends heavily on how representative the sentence pairs are","Segment pairs longer than the character cap are rejected outright, so long-form example sentences need to be trimmed before upload"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T18:42:26.286Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/f6e01f31-fa28-4565-8151-421c51d8806e"}