How to incorporate machine translation into your localization workflow
Localization involves many moving parts, with contributions from designers, developers, marketers, and translators. But it's machine translation (MT) that can speed your translation times from source language to target language and help your team deploy more quickly. Incorporating machine translation into your translation process is fairly easy — here's what you need to know and the tools you need to make it happen seamlessly. What is machine translation? Essentially, machine
Updated on October 11, 2022·Alexander Pereverzevs The 3-pillars of context that will improve your translations
To put it simply, the more context (communicative, situational, and visual) you provide to your translation team, the better quality translations you will receive. It’s a no-brainer, enabling your translators to translate in context is a win win. The more you put in, the more you get out. One question I often receive from companies interested in using a TMS (
Updated on September 23, 2024·Liam James Lokalise + Figma – start translating at the design stage and significantly shorten your time to market
Traditionally, software product teams would first design the product with only one language, and start thinking about adding more translation keys only after development. This often sounds like common sense considering that software release deadlines are usually quite tight. However, incorporating the
Updated on August 29, 2024·Alexander Pereverzevs jQuery.i18n: Localization & internationalization tutorial with examples
Recently we have done an overview of the most popular internationalization libraries for JavaScript covering solutions like I18next, Globalize and others. In this article, however, we are going to focus on a single solution and talk about localizing JavaScript apps with jQuery.I18n. This is a feature-rich library developed and supported by Wikimedia team. It is easy to get started and which is sui
Updated on December 3, 2024·Ilya Krukowski React Native app localization tutorial with react-native-localize
In this tutorial, we will learn how to implement React Native localization and internationalization, including support for localized time. Internationalization (I18n) makes it simpler to translate our React Native app into multiple languages. Once internationalization is performed, we will see how to perform React Native localization by supporting English and Russian language
Updated on November 9, 2022·Ilya Krukowski The ecommerce guide to multilingual customer support
Shoppers from around the world are visiting your ecommerce store. But when a customer in France has a question about sizing, they're met with a reply in English they can barely understand. Their excitement quickly turns to frustration and they abandon their cart. This is the cost of not offering multilingual customer support. As a business owner, nothing stings more than watching a potential sale slip away simply because of a
Updated on October 31, 2024·Janis Vavere Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of localization
There are numerous benefits of localization. But you still have to determine the impact of localization to your business to get the project approval from the various stakeholders. In this article, we'll cover how to estimate and measure the Return on Investment (ROI) of a localization project and how eff
Updated on April 12, 2023·Paul Jakovlev Glossary of translation and localization terms
Whether you are experienced in localization or not, some terms may still raise a question. With so many important acronyms, abbreviations, and phrases in the world of localization and localization management, we decided to compile a comprehensive glossary of translation and localization terms. Read on to learn more about the most common terminology related to localization and trans
Updated on August 20, 2024·Lokalise 
