At Smartling, AI is more than just a buzzword. We harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance the quality of your translations, delivering the same reliable results at a fraction of the cost and time. By combining the speed of machine translation with the capabilities of AI, Smartling can elevate your translation process to the next level. Explore the descriptions below to see what we offer.
Machine Translation
You may already be familiar with machine translation (MT), a cost-effective way to quickly translate content.
Smartling's Neural Machine Translation Hub provides a centralized solution for all of your machine translation needs:
- Integrate with your preferred external MT provider, or use a Large Language Model as your translation provider (requires you to bring your own MT key - BYOK)
- Eliminate the guesswork by opting for Smartling Auto Select - our proprietary MT profile that automatically chooses the best MT provider for each language pair.
- Looking to maintain your company's specific tone of voice, style and brand terminology in Machine Translations? Smartling also offers Custom MT Engine Training.
When using an NMT provider of your choice or Smartling Auto Select, you an integrate with your Linguistic Assets, using features like Glossary Term Insertion and Translation Memory Match Insertion to achieve a more customized MT output.
AI-Powered Translation
By integrating AI, Smartling enables you to boost machine translations, resulting in dramatic cost savings while maintaining top-tier translation quality. Smartling’s AI-powered features use Large Language Models (LLMs) to smooth and refine MT output, delivering more tailored translations that better fit the overall linguistic and cultural context based on your specific translation preferences.
How to use AI-powered translation in Smartling?
Smartling offers different packages and workflows that allow you to benefit from AI-powered features. Depending on your requirements, you can choose between fully pre-configured AI-enhanced workflows, or integrate individual AI-powered features using Smartling’s AI Toolkit.
Pre-configured AI-powered workflows
Smartling’s AIT and AIHT workflows offer an out-of-the-box solution to integrate with AI, resulting in the same, high translation quality as MTPE or human translation, at half the cost and delivery time.
To enable these workflows for your account or to learn more, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.
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AI-Powered Translation (AIT) automatically selects the best MT provider for your content and enriches the translations with Smartling’s most innovative AI features. This allows for the AIT workflow to achieve a quality score that is comparable to traditional MTPE.
✅ A translation solution that delivers MTPE quality at half the cost, with a near-immediate translation turnaround for high-resource languages.
✅ This pre-configured workflow is fully managed by Smartling Language Services - no setup work is required.
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AI-Powered Human Translation (AIHT) not only leverages the same state-of-the art AI features, but also includes a human post-edit step which is managed by Smartling Language Services. This allows for the AIHT workflow to achieve a quality score that is comparable to traditional human translation.
✅ A translation solution that delivers human quality at half the cost and twice the speed.
✅ This pre-configured workflow is fully managed by Smartling Language Services - no setup work is required.
Smartling's AI Toolkit
Prefer to work with your existing MT or MTPE workflow? Smartling’s AI Toolkit offers a set of AI-powered translation productivity tools to improve speed and reduce cost, without sacrificing quality. This solution is ideal if you prefer to work with your own translation vendor for post-editing. Integrate with one or all of these features based on your needs:
- AI Formality Adjustment: The formality (register) of machine translations can be adjusted from formal to informal.
- AI-Enhanced GTI: When glossary terms are inserted in machine translations, AI can automatically adjust the grammatical structure of the entire sentence to fit the inserted glossary term.
- AI Fuzzy Match Repair: AI Fuzzy Match Repair helps increase your Translation Memory leverage in Machine Translations by optimizing available matches. If a TM Match is used instead of a Machine Translation, it is automatically adapted to be more similar to the source text, helping you achieve a higher match score.
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Edit Effort Estimation: Use AI to predict the estimated translator effort for each string that goes through a machine translation step. This analysis can then be used to route content for human review in the most efficient way, helping you achieve cost savings.
Smartling's AI Offerings
AI Translation (AIT) | AI-Powered Human Translation (AIHT) | AI Toolkit | |
Description |
A translation workflow that delivers MTPE quality with immediate translation turnaround.* Uses AI to enhance Machine Translations. |
A translation workflow that delivers human quality at half the cost and twice as fast. Uses AI to enhance Machine Translations. Includes a review step for human editing and validation. |
A set of AI-powered translation productivity tools that improve speed and reduce cost for machine translation workflows. |
AI Features |
‣ AI Translation - Each string gets translated by multiple MT engines and AI selects best translation result ‣ AI Enhanced Glossary Term Insertion ‣ AI Post-Editing - automated formatting clean-up to restore HTML tags and reduce incorrect spacing |
‣ AI Translation - Each string gets translated by multiple MT engines and AI selects best translation result ‣ AI Enhanced Glossary Term Insertion ‣ AI Post-Editing - automated formatting clean-up to restore HTML tags and reduce incorrect spacing |
‣ AI Enhanced Glossary Term Insertion ‣ AI Post-Editing - automated formatting clean-up to restore HTML tags and reduce incorrect spacing |
MT Engine |
Multiple engines (AI selects the best translation result) |
Multiple engines (AI selects the best translation result) |
Any MT provider of your choice: |
Translation Vendor |
Smartling Language Services (SLS) |
Smartling Language Services (SLS) |
Work with your preferred translation vendor |
Customizable workflow |
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Turnaround time 4,000 words |
Instant for high-resource languages* |
1 day |
1 day*** |
Languages Supported |
60+ |
250+ |
Top 12** |
Average expected quality level |
Comparable to traditional MTPE |
Comparable to human translation |
Comparable to human translation*** |
* Translation turnaround times are based on API processing speeds, with most translation requests being delivered nearly instantly. For lower-resource languages, the AIT workflow includes a human Light Post-Edit step and therefore does not offer a near-instant turnaround.
** High-resource languages, recommended based on AI performance.
*** Dependent upon third party performance.