AI Translation

AI translation is the process of automatically translating text from one language to another using artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional machine translation, AI translation is more advanced as it understands context, tone, and meaning, resulting in higher accuracy and translations that sound natural and human-like.

How to use AI Translation

AI Translation is enabled by default in Localizely and allows you to automatically fill in missing translations.

Localizely integrates with OpenAI to power its AI translation feature.

To maximize accuracy, AI Translation analyzes all available context for each string key, including its description, screenshots, glossary terms, and other related data, producing translations that are precise and tailored to your specific use case. It also correctly handles complex formats such as plurals, placeholders, HTML, and ICU syntax.

AI Translation consumes twice as many characters as standard Machine Translation. Contextual data such as string key description and glossary terms is also counted at twice the character rate, and each attached screenshot adds 30 characters to your usage.

When you sign up, your default organization receives 2 000 free characters to try out both Machine Translation and AI Translation. When you need more, the organization owner or an organization admin can purchase additional characters on the organization's Billing page.

Batch AI Translation

Batch AI Translation lets you automatically fill in missing translations across multiple languages and string keys in one go.

To run a batch translation, go to the Translations page and click the More button. From the menu, select Auto-translate to open a dialog where you can configure the details.

In the dialog, select your target languages. Optionally, you can narrow down the string keys by applying a tag filter.

Inline AI Translation

Inline AI Translation lets you translate individual string keys directly from the Translations table.

To use it, click the Auto-translate button next to a string key, select Translate via AI from the menu, and the missing translations will be generated automatically.

AI Assistant

The AI Assistant works on one translation at a time, with you. Where inline and batch AI Translation fill in empty translations, the assistant rewrites, shortens, fixes or explains a translation that already exists, and drafts one when the language is still empty.

Open it from the AI Assistant tab of the bilingual editor, or from the sparkle button in the toolbar of a translation you are editing in the Translations table. Then pick a preset or type your own instruction:

Every suggestion shows the difference to the current text, its length against the key's maximum length, and the QA checks it would fail, such as a missing placeholder. Insert puts it into the editor; nothing is saved until you save, and a saved suggestion is marked via AI in the history.

The assistant uses the same context and the same characters as AI Translation, including your instruction and the conversation so far. Translators can use it when the setting below allows them Machine Translation and AI Translation.

Configuration

By default, only the project owner and admins can use Machine Translation, AI Translation and the AI Assistant. To allow translators to use these features as well, enable the corresponding option on the Settings page.

For the best results, make sure to fill in the project description field. A clear description of your project's domain, target audience, tone, and style gives both AI and human translators the context they need to produce accurate, consistent translations.