Localization Tips and Product Updates

It's increasingly common for businesses and organizations to have their applications support multiple languages. Building multi-language applications can be a challenging task. Luckily, there are tools and frameworks available that can make the process easier and more efficient. One such tool is NuxtJS, a powerful and popular JavaScript framework. Use it to build multi-language applications with its built-in nuxt i18n module. Even better, NuxtJS offers a range of features and benefits that make it well-suited for building multi-language applications, including server-side rendering, code-splitting, and automatic code generation.

Most of the videos use subtitles now. A research found that adding subtitles to a video made it 80% more likely to be watched. Translating subtitles into several languages is a great way to reach even more people with your video, webinar, or podcast. So, let's learn more about subtitle translation, how Crowdin can be part of your strategy for localization, and how to start your next international subtitling project.

Welcome to the case study with Ethereum.org, a website that provides information and resources about blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. The translation team employs a strategy of translation by community volunteers and proofreading by a translation agency. Let's delve deeper into how with the help of this approach, Ethereum.org were able to add 48 languages to their website, with over 3,800 translators participating in the effort and translating more than 2.9 million words in 2021 and 1.9 million words in 2022 (as of September). <table> <thead> <tr> <th class="align-baseline">SUMMARY</th> <td></td> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th class="align-baseline">Translation Approach</th> <td> <ul> <li>Translation by Community</li> <li>Proofreading by a Translation Agency</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="align-baseline">Functionality Used</th> <td> <ul> <li> <a href="https://blog.crowdin.com/2021/08/25/translation-memory/" target="blank"> Translation Memory </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://blog.crowdin.com/2018/05/18/using-glossary-to-keep-translations-swift-and-consistent/" target="blank" > Glossary </a> </li> <li> <a href="https://store.crowdin.com/preview-video" target="blank"> Video Preview app </a> </li> <li>Translation agency</li> <li>Crowdsourcing</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="align-baseline">Key Results</th> <td> <ul> <li>48 languages added</li> <li>5 localization projects</li> <li>3,800+ translators</li> <li>2.9 million words translated in 2021</li> <li>1.9 million words translated in 2022 (as of September)</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="align-baseline">Localized Content</th> <td> <ul> <li>Website</li> <li>Educational Videos</li> <li>Ethereum Foundation Blog</li> <li>Ethereum Staking Launchpad</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

In December, Crowdin released several updates that offer you a range of new tools and features, including new apps (OpenAI, XL8, Systran, Tencent Cloud's Machine Translation, and Alibaba Translate MT Connectors, Wistia, and SproutVideo). Other new features include a custom file format, improvements to user management and permissions, and new versions of the GitHub Action and iOS SDK. Let’s learn more about the updates that can help you improve your translation processes and work more efficiently.

If year-end reviews have taught us anything, it's that people enjoy quick, five-minute read summaries that condense a full year of development and accomplishments. So here it is, a short summary of 2022 at Crowdin. This year, we’ve focused on ensuring you can make your whole company multilingual as easily as if there’s still one language. That’s why we already have 450+ apps and integrations, so in addition to localizing your product, you can automate the translation of your websites, emails, live chats, documentation and other content on your customer’s journey. We introduced quick ways to order translations right away, and so much more. We’re thrilled to be helping more than 2 million users and thousands of projects to manage an agile localization process. Let’s take a moment to celebrate how your features and app requests help us grow, our milestones, and how Crowdin became more than a cloud-based solution for software localization

Localization is essential for businesses looking to expand into foreign markets, but it can also be a significant burden for developers, designers, and content marketers. In this blog post, we'll explore how Chainels, a B2B SaaS company based in the Netherlands, used the Crowdin and HubSpot integration to streamline their localization efforts, automate content delivery, and establish a faster workflow with minimal developer involvement. We'll also be discussing the various features and functionalities that Chainels utilized within Crowdin, including machine translation, translation memory, Crowdin plugin for Figma and more. <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Summary</th> <th></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row"> <strong>Translation Approach</strong> </th> <td> <ul> <li>Translation by MT</li> <li> <a href="https://blog.crowdin.com/2022/03/30/mt-post-editing/">MTPE</a> and Proofreading by native speakers (freelancers) </li> <li>Review by native speakers (team members)</li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row"> <strong>Functionality Used</strong> </th> <td> <ul> <li> <a href="https://developer.crowdin.com/api/v2/">Crowdin API</a> </li> <li> Crowdin <a href="https://store.crowdin.com/hubspot-cms-connector">HubSpot CMS</a>{" "} integration for Web pages </li> <li> <a href="https://store.crowdin.com/hubspot-cms">Crowdin HubSpot integration</a> for blogs, forms, and emails </li> <li> <a href="https://store.crowdin.com/figma">Crowdin plugin for Figma</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://support.crowdin.com/versions-management/">Version management</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://blog.crowdin.com/2021/08/25/translation-memory/">Translation Memory</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://store.crowdin.com/categories/machine-translation"> Machine translation </a>{" "} (<a href="https://store.crowdin.com/crowdin-mt">Crowdin MT</a>,{" "} <a href="https://store.crowdin.com/google-translate">Google Translate</a>,{" "} <a href="https://store.crowdin.com/deepl-translator">DeepL Translator</a>) </li> <li> <a href="https://support.crowdin.com/tasks/">Tasks</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://blog.crowdin.com/2018/05/18/using-glossary-to-keep-translations-swift-and-consistent/"> Glossaries </a> </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row"> <strong>Key Results</strong> </th> <td> <ul> <li>New website available in 5 languages</li> <li>The product available in 10 languages</li> <li>Automated content delivery</li> <li>Faster workflow with no need for developer’s help established</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

As a SaaS business grows, it becomes more important for you to make your product available to users all over the world. As more and more customers from different locales come in, you might start to wonder how to tackle SaaS localization and translation without creating extra work or complicating the processes that already work. No matter how much content you have and how many people are creating and editing it, with the proper infrastructure and tools, it is possible to create a multilingual product that will help you win customers speaking different languages and grow your business. Translation and localization can be automated, so there’s no copy-pasting for you.