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Building an AI-powered translation flow using Lokalise API and webhooks

Managing translations in a growing product can quickly become repetitive and error-prone, especially when dealing with frequent content updates or multiple languages. Lokalise helps automate this process, and with the right setup you can build a full AI-powered translation pipeline that runs with minimal manual input. In this guide, you’ll learn how to: Upload translation files to Lokalise automaticallyCreate AI-based translation tasksUse webhooks to downloa

Updated on July 22, 2025·Ilya Krukowski

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Transcreation vs. translation: What’s the difference, really?

A Super Bowl ad and a product specification document don’t cross borders the same way. The ad demands alchemy, words rebuilt so they spark the same laugh or surge of confidence in every culture. The spec demands accuracy. Every term exact, every unit precise. That’s what transcreation vs. translation is about. Keep reading to discover where each method shines, how to spot the difference on sight, and why smart teams often blend both to reach hearts and hit compliance worldwi

Updated on July 21, 2025·Mia Comic

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Transcreation vs localization: Which approach is right for you

When Coca-Cola launched its famous “Share a Coke” campaign in China, it tanked. Since most Chinese consumers don’t go by just one name, the idea of printing common first names on bottles didn’t work well. So, the brand adapted this campaign to print social labels like “Comedian” and “Fashionista.”

Updated on July 18, 2025·Shreelekha Singh

Travel Far. Feel Alive translated in Japanese

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8 software localization issues that could hurt your business, and how to avoid them

The localization process is not easy. You do not necessarily know all the languages you want to expand your product into, so you have to trust your teams that your international offer is solid and relevant. When localizing your software, there are a number of issues and challenges that are—unfortunately—almost inevitable. However, they are fixable. Discover in this article eight software localization issues, how they could harm your business, and what to do to overcome them.

Updated on July 17, 2025·Lucie Genot

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All you need to know about vendor management in localization

You decided to open your product for the world to discover. Congratulations! Translation is one of the next steps to open the doors of the global marketplace. One problem: you do not have an in-house translator team, and now is neither the time nor the priority to hire them. One solution: connect with vendors who will assist you in your localization projects. One better solution: discover vendor management in loc

Updated on July 10, 2025·Lucie Genot

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Unexpected benefits of translation memory

You know that déjà-vu feeling when a phrase you swear you translated last month shows up in a new project? Translation memory (TM) is the tool that makes you resurface the right translation in seconds. It’s a smart database that saves each source segment and its approved translation, then offers it back whenever the same (or even a similar) string pops up. Picture Google Docs’ autocomplete, but for every language you localize. In this guide you’ll learn how translati

Updated on July 1, 2025·Mia Comic

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UI localization: How to make your app feel native everywhere

When I visited Norway for the first time, my biggest challenge was driving on the right-hand side of the road. Every turn, every signal, every instinct felt off. I wasn’t exactly lost. But it took way more effort than cruising through the left-side driving lanes in India. That’s exactly how people feel when they try to navigate your website or app in a language they don’t speak fluently. Sure, they can use it. But it feels clunky, disorienting, and far from intuitive.

Updated on July 1, 2025·Shreelekha Singh

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5 best translation management systems to make projects easy

The traditional translation management system (TMS) is dead. It doesn’t support the many moving parts of the multilingual content lifecycle, such as managing linguistic assets and syncing with design systems to integrating with codebases, automating QA, and coordinating stakeholders across functions. Modern TMS solutions go far beyond translation. They bring together translators,

Updated on July 1, 2025·Shreelekha Singh

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Laravel localization: A step-by-step guide with examples

How to translate languages in Python with Google Translate and DeepL (plus more)

Angular i18n: internationalization & localization with examples

Building an AI-powered translation flow using Lokalise API and webhooks

Transcreation vs. translation: What’s the difference, really?

Transcreation vs localization: Which approach is right for you

8 software localization issues that could hurt your business, and how to avoid them

All you need to know about vendor management in localization

Unexpected benefits of translation memory

UI localization: How to make your app feel native everywhere

5 best translation management systems to make projects easy

Editor’s picks

Laravel localization: A step-by-step guide with examples

How to translate languages in Python with Google Translate and DeepL (plus more)

Angular i18n: internationalization & localization with examples

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