Smartling Translate allows you to translate text or files instantly, without any configuration or set up.
Powered by Smartling's AI Hub, translations are completed by the MT or LLM Profile configured for Smartling Translate in your account's Instant MT settings.
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Requirements
Smartling Translate needs to be activated by your Smartling Customer Success Manager, and can be enabled for any Smartling account (any tier).
To access Smartling Translate, you will need an active Smartling user account with an Account Owner, Project Manager or Requester user role.
Tip: Smartling offers a limited-access, Smartling Translate–only user role as part of a pilot program. This role provides restricted access specifically to Smartling Translate, without full access to the rest of the Smartling platform. If you’d like to participate in the beta or learn more, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.
How to set up Smartling Translate
Contact your Smartling Customer Success Manager to enable Smartling Translate for your account.
Enable machine translation for Smartling Translate:
From the AI Hub in the top navigation bar of your Smartling dashboard, navigate to the Instant MT tab
Click into the Smartling Translate tab to enable machine translation for Smartling Translate, and to select the preferred MT or LLM Profile
If desired, enable Glossary Term Insertion.
Select the glossary/glossaries that should be referenced for translations in Smartling Translate.
Select your preferred insertion type.
Accessing Smartling Translate
Option 1
For users with a Project Manager or Account Owner role, Smartling Translate can be accessed from the AI Hub:
From the top navigation bar of your Smartling dashboard, click into the AI Hub.
Under Tools, click Smartling Translate.
Option 2
If you do not have access to the AI Hub, you will instead see a toggle in the top navigation bar, which allows you to switch between Smartling Translate and the Smartling TMS (Translation Management System). Select Smartling Translate from the dropdown, as shown:
Translating text
Text requirements
Under 1,000 characters
Tags or placeholders are not supported
How to translate text snippets
Click the Translate Text toggle
Choose your languages (the language you are writing in and the languages you want translations in)
Type to search for a locale
Alternatively, start typing and let Smartling Translate detect the source language
You can swap source and target languages by clicking the arrows in between both fields
Type or paste text for translation into the field below
Text translates automatically once you stop typing
Character count is displayed at the bottom of the field
Source field has a limit of 1,000 characters
View translations immediately on the field on the right-hand side
If a string cannot be translated for any reason, the untranslated source string is returned
If you navigate away from the page, the text will still be available to copy (unless you navigate to the TMS)
Click the copy icon to copy translated text
You can use the AI Editor (BETA) to rework and improve your source or translated text. Simply choose a prompt from the dropdown menu and click Submit.
Translating files
File requirements
Max file size: 200 MB
How to translate files
Click the Translate Files toggle
Choose your languages (the language you are writing in and the languages you want translations in)
Type to search for a locale
Alternatively, upload the file and let Smartling Translate detect the source language
Drag & drop or select files from your local drive for translation
Max file size: 200 MB
For XML files, confirm the file is XML or Android XML
Click Translate
Click Download (or Download All if more than one file) download translations to your local drive
If a string cannot be translated for any reason, the untranslated source string is returned
If you navigate away from the page, the translated files will still be available to download, until you click Start Over (unless you navigate to the TMS)
Click Start Over to translate another file
Once clicked, previously translated files are no longer available to download
Supported file types
The following is a list of file types you can translate on Smartling Translate.
We recommend reading the documentation each to learn about how Smartling handles each file type during the translation process. You can control some of this behavior by using file directives. The directives that are supported on Smartling Translate are flagged accordingly in the file's documentation.
*Smartling Translate supports single locale per downloaded file today. We plan to add support for multiple language file downloads for these file types in the future.
Supported languages
The supported languages in Smartling Translate depend on the MT Provider you are using. The best way to find out if a language is supported is to type the language name into the source/target language field.
Click here to expand the list of supported languages.
Locale ID | Language |
af-ZA | Afrikaans |
ak | Akan |
am-ET | Amharic |
ar | Arabic |
as-IN | Assamese |
ay | Aymara |
az-AZ | Azerbaijani |
ba | Bashkir |
be-BY | Belarusian |
bg-BG | Bulgarian |
bm | Bambara |
bn | Bengali |
bo | Tibetan |
bp | Bhojpuri |
bs-BA | Bosnian |
ca | Catalan |
cb | Cebuano |
co | Corsican |
cs | Czech |
cy-GB | Welsh |
da | Danish |
de | German |
dv | Dhivehi |
ee | Ewe |
el | Greek |
en | English |
eo | Esperanto |
es | Spanish |
es-MX | Spanish (Mexico) |
et-EE | Estonian |
eu | Basque |
fa-AF | Dari/Persian |
fa-IR | Persian |
fi | Finnish |
fj | Fijian |
fo-FO | Faroese |
fp-PH | Filipino |
fr | French |
fr-CA | French (Canada) |
fy-NL | Western |
ga-IE | Irish |
gd-GB | Scottish Gaelic |
gl-ES | Galician |
gn | Guarani |
gu-IN | Gujarati |
ha | Hausa |
he | Hebrew |
hi | Hindi |
hm | Hmong |
hr-HR | Croatian |
ht-HT | Haitian |
hu | Hungarian |
hw | Hawaiian |
hy-AM | Armenian |
id | Indonesian |
ig | Igbo |
il-PH | Ilocano |
is-IS | Icelandic |
it | Italian |
iu | Inuktitut |
ja | Japanese |
jv | Javanese |
ka-GE | Georgian |
kd | Kurdish (Sorani) |
kk-KZ | Kazakh |
km-KH | Khmer |
kn-IN | Kannada |
ko | Korean |
ku-TR | Kurdish |
ky-KG | Kyrgyz |
la | Latin |
lb | Luxembourgish |
lg-UG | Ganda |
ln | Lingala |
lo-LA | Lao |
lt-LT | Lithuanian |
lv-LV | Latvian |
ma | Maithili |
mg-MG | Malagasy |
mi | Maori |
mk-MK | Macedonian |
ml-IN | Malayalam |
mn-MN | Mongolian |
mr-IN | Marathi |
ms | Malay |
mt-MT | Maltese |
my-MM | Burmese |
nb | Norwegian (Bokmål) |
ne-NP | Nepali |
nl | Dutch |
no | Norwegian |
ny | Nyanja (Chichewa) |
om-ET | Oromo |
or-IN | Odia/Oriya |
pa-IN | Punjabi |
pl | Polish |
ps | Pushto |
pt | Portuguese |
pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazil) |
pt-PT | Portuguese (Portugal) |
qu | Quechua |
ro | Romanian |
ru | Russian |
rw-RW | Kinyarwanda |
sa | Sanskrit |
sd | Sindhi |
si-LK | Sinhala |
sk-SK | Slovak |
sl-SI | Slovenian |
sm | Samoan |
sn | Shona |
so-SO | Somali |
sq-AL | Albanian |
sr-RS | Serbian (Latin) |
sr-YR | Serbian (Cyrillic) |
st-ZA | Southern |
su | Sundanese |
sv | Swedish |
sw | Swahili |
ta | Tamil |
te-IN | Telugu |
tg-TJ | Tajik |
th | Thai |
ti-ET | Tigrinya |
tk | Turkmen |
tl-PH | Tagalog |
to-TO | Tongan |
tr | Turkish |
ts-ZA | Tsonga |
tt-RU | Tatar |
ty | Tahitian |
ug | Uyghur |
uk | Ukrainian |
ur | Urdu |
uz-UZ | Uzbek |
vb | Konkani |
vi | Vietnamese |
xh-ZA | Xhosa |
yi | Yiddish |
yo | Yoruba |
zh-CN | Chinese (Simplified) |
zh-TW | Chinese (Traditional) |
zu-ZA | Zulu |
Supported language pairs
Not all language pairs are supported by the MT providers used in Smartling Translate. If a user selects an unsupported language pair, an error is flagged encouraging you to remove the unsupported pair before translation. If you choose an unsupported language pair when translating a file, the translate button is disabled until you remove any unsupported pairs.
Cross-locale adaptation is not supported, e.g. en-US > en-GB.
Tip: For information on our MT Providers and their supported languages, read Supported MT and LLM Providers