Enable Cross-Locale Leverage

Cross-locale leverage allows you to make translations for one locale available for a different, but typically similar, locale. The steps in this article are often used for cross-locale adaptation.

For more information on cross-locale adaptation and how it works, read our documentation on Cross-Locale Adaptation, or check out our video tutorial.

Leverage a Target for Another Locale

You can make translations for one locale available for a different locale, for example, Argentinian Spanish translations of American English source content for Chilean Spanish translations of the same source content.

1. Click Account Settings > Linguistic Assets
2. Select Leverage to enter the overview of all available Leverage Configurations
3. Click the name of the Leverage Configuration that you would like to edit
4. Click Add Source.
5. Select a translation memory source
6. Under Languages, select the secondary (child) target locale, for example Spanish (Chile) [es-CL]
7. Check the box “Enable Cross-Locale Leverage” to indicate you’d like to leverage translations from another target locale from the same language family. A new list will appear where you will set the primary (parent) language, for example Spanish (Argentina) [es-AR]
8. Under the dropdown "Use Translations From", select a new target locale. This is typically the "primary" or "parent" locale, which you would like to leverage the translations from
   
9. Under Penalty, select or type a percentage by which all matches against this translation memory source should be reduced
   • For example, selecting 1% will reduce matches to 98% from 99%, 84% from 85%, and so on
10. Click Save to add this cross-locale configuration to the Leverage Configuration
11. Customize SmartMatch behavior for the newly created cross-locale configuration, selecting First Revision Step (Edit, Review, or Holding) for each rule if you want linguists to evaluate matches.