Notes on translation, AI and localisation
Accessing new markets the right way
Cross-Lingual QA: Catching Errors Without Reading the Target Language
Translation quality assurance has a staffing problem. Finding reviewers who are native speakers of the target language, fluent in the source language, and …
Video Localization Beyond Subtitles: The Dubbing Revolution
Subtitles are a compromise. They’re how the localization industry has handled video content for decades because real dubbing—with voice actors, recording …
The Hidden Cost of Manual File Extraction Rules
Before you can translate a file, you have to extract the translatable content from it. This sounds simple until you encounter the reality of enterprise file …
Beyond DeepL: Why LLM Translation Changes Everything
DeepL is good. So is Google Translate. So is Microsoft Translator. The neural machine translation revolution of the mid-2010s genuinely improved translation …
Why Your Translation Files Keep Breaking Mid-Project
The email lands mid-project: “The translated files won’t open properly.” Or worse: “All the formatting is gone.” File handling …
XLIFF: The Universal Translation Standard Your Team Should Know
Every translation tool has its own internal format. Phrase uses one structure, Lokalise another, MemoQ another still. When you need to move content between …