Meet the AI Assistant: shorten, rephrase, fix or explain any translation in the editor 

AI Translation fills in empty translations. The new AI Assistant does the other half of the job: the editing that happens after a translation exists. It lives in the editor, works on one translation at a time, and only suggests. You insert what you like and save it yourself.

Here is what it does, one problem at a time.

Shorten a translation to fit 

German runs about a third longer than English, and a button does not grow. When a translation exceeds the string key's maximum length, pick Shorten and the assistant rewrites it within the limit, keeping the meaning and every placeholder. If the limit cannot be met, it says so instead of guessing.

Change the tone 

Formal or informal, in one click. The assistant knows how formality works in the target language, from Sie and du in German to polite forms in Japanese, so nobody has to explain it. Need options? Alternatives returns three differently worded translations to choose from.

Fix grammar and spelling 

A typo in a translation is a typo in your product. Fix grammar corrects spelling, grammar and punctuation without touching the meaning or the style, and tells you when there is nothing to fix.

Explain a translation you cannot read 

Reviewing a language you do not speak used to mean trusting blindly or pasting text into a translator. Explain gives you a literal back-translation into the main language and points out anything unusual: a shift in meaning, a missing placeholder, a tone that does not match the original.

Ask anything about the string 

Type your own instruction: "use the brand name instead of the generic term", "keep the exclamation but make it shorter", "is this idiom natural in Brazilian Portuguese?". The conversation stays with the string, so you can refine step by step. When a language is still empty, Translate drafts the translation for you.

Built for review, not autopilot 

• Suggestions, not changes. Every rewrite lands in the editor as a proposal. Nothing is saved until you save, and a saved suggestion is marked "via AI" in the history.
• QA-checked before you insert. Each suggestion shows the difference to the current text, its length against the key's limit and any QA check it would fail, such as a missing placeholder or tag.
• The same context as AI Translation. The key description, screenshots, glossary terms and the project's style guide go into every answer.
• Under your control. Translators use it only when the project allows them AI translation, and strings marked "do not translate" are left alone.

Where to find it 

In the bilingual editor it is the AI Assistant tab, next to Suggestions and History. In the Translations table, edit a translation and click the sparkle button in its toolbar. The conversation is kept in your browser for the strings you asked about most recently; nothing is stored on our servers.

What it costs 

The AI Assistant uses the same characters as AI Translation: the text it reads and your instruction count at twice the machine translation rate, and each screenshot adds 30 characters. Every organization starts with 2 000 free characters, and more can be bought at any time on the Billing page. There is no extra plan or add-on.

Read more on the AI Assistant page or jump straight into the docs. If you already have a project, open any translation and try Shorten on the longest one.