This is the copy of the original issue from: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/6071
Right now the script translate.py does not allow to use own data for training. At the moment it works only with the data, that the script downloads from the Internet (en/fr). Also there is not any documentation on the format of the input data that it expects in the input. In order to have the ability to train the model with own data 2 changes need to be made to the script:
fixed in #806
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fixed in #806