# Using T5-Base via Inference API

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**Created:** [July 21, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fusing-t5-base-via-inference-api%2F8557 "2021-07-21T15:46:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohsenalam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@mohsenalam](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fmohsenalam)%5C
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fusing-t5-base-via-inference-api%2F8557%2F1 "2021-07-21T15:46:20Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to use T5-base model for summarization task using Inference API. I added the T5-specific prefix "summarize: " to the text. However, the model is returning translation\_text as output instead of summary\_text.  
(I was able to use t5-base model for summarization using a model and tokenizer as described here: [Summary of the tasks — transformers 4.7.0 documentation](https://huggingface.co/transformers/task_summary.html#summarization))

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**Author:** ![pierreguillou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/pierreguillou/32/19626_2.png) [@pierreguillou](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fpierreguillou)%5C
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fusing-t5-base-via-inference-api%2F8557%2F2 "2021-11-17T18:40:16Z")

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Hello @mohsenalam. Did you solve your issue?  
On my side, I would like to use Inferenec API for T5 base as well.  
I opened this thread: [How to get Accelerated Inference API for T5 models?](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhow-to-get-accelerated-inference-api-for-t5-models%2F11972)