Need to Automate Translations for Your App?

Translation Profiles make it easy to automate every step of your app’s translation request process. They bundle automated translation settings in a convenient package that can be used over and over – on any type of content, making app translation more automatic, painless, and instantaneous.

What is a Translation Profile?

A Translation Profile bundles a set of default translation preferences into a convenient, reusable package. This means you can set up translation preferences once and then reapply them over and over – to any kind of content.

Translation Profiles spell out

Which languages to translate into
Which Lingotek project to use
Which Lingotek workflow to use

Additionally, the Lingotek workflow spells out many automatic settings:

Which translation steps to include
Which linguists to assign
Which automatic notifications to send
Which language resources (TM vaults, glossaries) to use

Additionally, a Translation Profile means a different workflow can be used on each type of content.
Professionally translate web pages; machine translate blog posts.

How it Works

Translation Profiles not only make translation quicker, they can automate the entire process. From initial request to final publication, a Translation Profile lets you quickly request translations, using your preferred default settings.

Additionally, using the Translation Profile, choose which Lingotek resources to apply and whether to automate translation requests. A Translation Profile makes website translation more automatic, painless, and instantaneous.

Match Quality to Content

When you need to automate translation quality, use a Translation Profile to increase or decrease the complexity of the translation workflow.

Use a higher quality workflow for more important content and lower quality workflow for lower value content. For example, you may wish to machine translate customer comments while professionally translating menu items and web pages.

Using the Translation Profile, apply different workflows for different types of content.

Add extra review steps for content with complicated layouts
Add extra review steps for content that is highly technical or has legal implications
Use a shorter workflow for lower priority content – such as how to guides and product descriptions.
Use machine translation only when translating content strictly for SEO purposes (e.g. blogs, etc.)

Automate

For flexibility and convenience, use Translation Profile to request and publish translations automatically.

Requests

Request translations manually or automatically.

Automatic Request. Translation requests can be triggered automatically.

When webpages are added/updated, a translation is requested automatically.

Manual Request. Translation requests can be triggered manually.

If you don’t need to translate every webpage, set the Translation Profile to require a manual translation request for each page.

Publishing

Publish translations manually or automatically.

Automatic Publishing. Completed translations can be published automatically as soon as they are complete.

If you don’t need to review the layout before publishing a translation, you can set the Translation Profile to automatically publish translations (as soon as they finish the final step of translation).

Manual Publishing. Completed translations can be published manually.
If you need to review the translation – to check layout, etc. – before publishing, set the Translation Profile to require a manual translation request for each page.

Use Cases

Reasons you may wish to automate (or not automate) translation via the Translation Profile are outlined below.

Automatic Options

Automatic Options are useful when content is updated frequently.

The user…	The Translation Profile automatically…
…updates the original webpage.	…requests a professional translation for all webpage updates.
…machine translates blog posts (to increase SEO).	…requests machine translation for all blog posts.

Manual Options

Manual options are useful when updates are infrequent, minor, or need to be released on a specific time frame.

The user…	With the Translation Profile …
…updates marketing content daily; because international campaigns are released one month after domestic release, publication for translations should be delayed.	…publish translations manually.
…would like to review all translations before publishing to ensure formatting and layout are preserved.	…publish translations manually.

Disable Translation

For many reasons, it may be desirable to leave some pages untranslated. The user can disable translation for these types of content.

The user…	The Translation Profile …
…only needs to translate the main web pages. The rest of the website should not be translated.	…can disable translation for all other non-webpage content.
…never wants to translate customer comments.	…can disable translation for all customer comments.