Localization Tips and Product Updates

Today we are announcing a price increase for Crowdin. Here’s the new pricing structure:

Gross domestic product (GDP) of the USA in average grows for 3% per year. This is quite a tempo, and the index is pretty much the same among all developed countries. What interesting is that this growth is almost entirely about technological progress. With innovation and automation, people have wider possibilities and more time to produce more goods. And yes, this macroeconomics principle can be applied to any business. Here at Crowdin we try to automate and optimize every single step during localization to save your time and resources. We keep the principle in mind each time we develop a new feature. So we’re excited to share some recent improvements within Crowdin.

Chess.com is the biggest online social networking for chess players. Over 8 millions of chess fans with all skills level hanging together to play, learn, teach, communicate and share. Observing their success in managing translation projects for mobile application, we decided to talk to Chess.com localization leader Erik and summarize a good localization practice into short overview easy to follow.

Crowdin gives wide range of possibilities to provide contextual information to translators. We allow to upload screenshots to show where the text segment is being used in real product, comment segments, create glossary to highlight and explain important terms, collaborate on choosing best translation and more. Today, after more than 6 months of active development, we release the public beta of our brand new In-Context localization tool for web applications called JIPT (Just In Place Translations).  JIPT allows translators to do their work right in the live application, immediately preview translation in original context thus produce best possible quality localization. All of the texts that are visible in browsers can be translated this way (including ones stored in the database).

When the localization is completed all the imperfections are polished and every single text fits to the space it belongs to, it frequently appears that it is not really the end.  In fact, screenshots, logos and other non-textual materials with text on them remain untranslated. To reduce the pain the one is feeling thinking about those graphics localization, we developed the solution to organize the process.

Lately we decided to make the world a better place and created special licenses for educational institutes There are 2 types of licenses. 1. Open Academic License is being provided completely free of charge but requires created projects to be open and publicly available 2. Private Academic License is half price regular Crowdin subscription The way to apply is as simple as ABC: just carefully read requirements, drop as a note and get a personal email with an approval or invoice. We already have some lucky Academic License owners: - University of Washington - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Ankara Social Sciences University ASBU - and more. Traditionally we highlight major Crowdin updates here. Few new things are below (not to mention hundreds of minor improvements made recently):