Smartling's MT Portal (BETA) allows you to translate text or files instantly, without any configuration or set up.
Translations are completed by multiple MT providers via the Smartling Autoselect engine.
Requirements
- A Smartling account (any tier)
- Account Owner, Project Manager or Requester user
- Enable MT in the CAT Tool
- File requirements
- Support file types
- Max file size: 200 MB
- Text requirements
- Under 1,000 characters
- Tags or placeholders are not supported
Accessing The MT Portal
Select Machine Translation Portal from the platform dropdown, as shown:
Translate Text
To translate text:
- Click the Translate Text toggle
- Choose your source language and choose the language you want translations in
- Only 50 languages are shown in the dropdown by default
- Type to search for a locale
- Click the arrows to swap source and target languages
- 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
- Click the copy icon to copy translated text
Translate Files
To translate files:
- Click the Translate Files toggle
- Choose your source language and choose the languages you want translations in
- Only 50 languages are shown in the dropdown by default
- Type to search for a locale
- Click the arrows to swap source and target languages
- Drag & drop or select files from your local drive for translation
- See supported file types
- Max file size: 200 MB
- 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
- Click Start Over to translate another file
- Once clicked, previously translated files are no longer available to download
Supported File Types
- CSV*
- DITA
- DOCM
- DOCX
- FLARE
- HTML
- IDML
- MARKDOWN
- PLAIN_TEXT
- PPTX
- PRES
- RESX
- RTF
- SRT
- SVG
- VTT
- XLIFF2
- XLSX
- XML
*The MT portal only 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 Language Pairs
Not all language pairs are supported via our MT providers. 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 🦾 Machine Translation & MT Profiles.