Awesome Translations
😎 Awesome lists about Internationalization & localization stuff. l10n, g11n, m17n, i18n. Translations! 🌎🌍
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Translations
Platforms >Localization and translation platforms
Crowdin
Closed source cloud-based localization technology and services company.
Inlang
The globalization ecosystem for software companies.
Transifex
Proprietary, web-based translation platform, globalization management system (GMS).
SimpleLocalize
A simple translation management for software projects.
Tolgee
Open-source, developer & translator friendly platform enabling users to translate directly in the app they develop.
Localit
A fast and intuitive localization platform with seamless GitHub/GitLab integration, AI-powered and human translation support, and a generous free plan.
Lokalise
Translation platform for developers.
Locize
Proprietary translation platform.
Shipi18n
Translation API for developers with i18next support, placeholder preservation, and translation memory.
LRM
Self-hosted CLI/TUI localization manager supporting .resx and JSON (i18next) with multiple translation providers including free options.
Platforms >Project management
Platforms >Platform-specific tools
GitLocalize
Powerful localization platform that syncs with your GitHub repository and lets you continuously translate its content.
Respresso
Collaborative online resource manager for localizations, images, colors, etc. that generates platform-specific files and delivers them directly to your source code.
PO file editor
A free tool for translating PO files for localization with Gettext.
Apps >Automated translation
RTranslator
A simultaneous translator app for Android based on NLLB and Whisper that runs locally.
Crow Translate
A simple and lightweight translator for Linux and Windows that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing translate API.
Copy Translator
An app for Windows, Mac and Linux that automatically translate and adapt a text when copied in the clipboard.
LibreTranslate
100% Self-Hosted web app to translate text, based on Argos Translate.
Apps >Translation software
OmegaT
Free translation memory / CAT software that works on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Argos Translate
Completely open source offline translation app written in Python and based on OpenNMT. It can also be used as a Python library.
Fink
Translation editor / CAT software with no-code setup and repository-based operation.
Project Fluent
Asymetric translations (eg. gender variations) for localization.
Tools >Automatic translation for end users
Bergamot
Client-side translation in the browser.
Alexa Translations
Alexa Translations A.I. brings leading AI and machine translation to the legal, financial and government sectors.
Watson Language Translator
A service on the IBM Cloud that enables dynamically translation news, patents, or conversational documents.
DeepL Translator
A neural machine translation service launched in August 2017 and owned by Cologne based DeepL SE.
Amazon Translate
A neural machine translation service.
ModernMT
A self-learning machine translation service that improves from user corrections as user keep using it.
Microsoft Translator
A multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft.
Tools >Libraries and tools for developers
deep-translator
A flexible free and unlimited (depending on the translator used) library written in Python to translate between different languages in a simple way using multiple translators, it can also be used directly in the prompt.
Translator
A translator library based on the translation interface of Google, Yandex, Microsoft (Bing), Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NetEase (Youdao), Sogou, Deepl, etc.
I18next
Internationalization-framework written in and for JavaScript.
react-i18next
Powerful internationalization framework for React / React Native which is based on i18next.
MDN i18n
Functions to internationalize your browser extension. You can use these APIs to get localized strings from locale files packaged with your extension.
Ruby I18n
Rails internationalization (i18n) API.
Quasar I18n
App internationalization (i18n) in Quasar framework.
Vue I18n
Internationalization plugin for Vue.js.
i18n Ally
Extension for VSCode, all in one about i18n.
Translate
A set of software and documentation designed to help make the lives of localizers both more productive and less frustrating.
Python-i18n
Python internationalization (i18n) package.
Moment.js
Parse, validate, manipulate and display dates and times in JavaScript.
WPML
A WordPress plugin that allows running multilingual websites with a single WordPress install.
FormatJS
A modular collection of JavaScript libraries for internationalization that are focused on formatting numbers, dates, and strings for displaying to people.
Polyglot
A fast, painless, open-source internationalization plugin for Jekyll blogs.
ICU - International Components for Unicode
A mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.
Django docs - i18n
Part of the Django docs, focused on internationalization and localization.
Localizejs
Translations for websites and applications to new languages and streamline translation workflow.
ParaglideJS
Synchronous, typesafe and lightweight i18n library.
sphinx-intl
A Sphinx utility that make it easy to translate and to apply translations.
Tools >Machine translation for developers
SwiftGoogleTranslate
A framework to use cloud translation API by Google in Swift.
attranslate
A tool for semi-automated translations of cross-platform apps or websites.
AutoML Translation Documentation
AutoML Translation by Google.
Tools >Other tools
npm i18n
Lightweight simple translation module with dynamic json storage.
Pootle
An online translation management tool with a translation interface focused on localization of applications' graphical user interfaces. It is used by LibreOffice.
Globalize
A JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverage the official Unicode CLDR JSON data.
SimpleLocalize CLI
A CLI for finding translation keys in project files.
Ninja i18n
A GitHub action for translation linting in pull requests.
Articles >Introductions to internationalization
Stack Overflow Q&A-1
Localization and internationalization, what's the difference?
Stack Overflow Q&A-2
What is the actual differences between i18n/l10n/g11n and specifically what does each mean for development?
W3C
Localization vs. internationalization.
Internationalization vs. Localization: The Difference Between l10n and I18n
Blog post about the difference between l10n and I18n from Crowdin.
Articles >For developers
Angular and i18n
Angular i18n guide.
Debian manuals
Chapter 8: i18n and l10n.
Developer Chrome i18n
Internationalizing your app.
Software Globalization, Berkeley.edu - slides
"Software globalization and adding languages on computers and mobile devices" by Craig Cummings (slides).
Flutter i18n
Internationalizing Flutter apps.
What is 'hreflang'?
What is hreflang attribute and how it can affect your SERP.
Globalization and localization in ASP.NET Core
Article about Globalization and localization in ASP.NET Core.
Articles >Understanding computer-assisted translation
Computer-assisted translation
CAT (computer-aided translation) tools are typically understood to mean programs that specifically facilitate the actual translation process. This article describe: translation memory software, language search-engine software, terminology management software, alignment software, interactive…
Articles >Machine translation
Approaches to Machine Translation
A paper-review on different techniques for machine translation.
Neural Machine Translation
A paper-review that trace back the origins of modern NMT architectures to word and sentence embeddings and earlier examples of the encoder-decoder network family. It will conclude with a short survey of more recent trends in the field.
Awesome New Languages in Machine Translation
A list of initiatives for supporting MT (mostly with opensource models) for new languages (mostly lower-resourced ones).
Blogs
Speakt
Well-rounded resource, offering in-depth information from the best professionals in the industry on everything related to translation.
The Translator's Teacup
Contains good tips for beginner translators.
Speaking of Translation
Run by two outstanding experts in the field of translation and localization. You can listen to audio files covering their tips and opinions on the freelance translator's work.
eMpTy Pages
Presents extremely detailed descriptions and opinions about localization management, collaborative translation platforms, translation management systems, machine translation, as well as the localization industry's biggest players.
Online Courses
UWashingtonX's I18n and l10n
A collection of 3 courses of internationalization and internationalization for digital products provided by the University of Washington.
Basic English Grammar and punctuation
English grammar course for beginners provided by the University of California.
Intermediate English Grammar and punctuation
English grammar course for people with experience provided by the University of California.
Advanced English Grammar and punctuation
English grammar course for experts provided by the University of California.
Natural Language Processing
Teaches how to use machine learning to understand and manipulate human language. It requires a working knowledge of machine learning, intermediate Python experience including DL frameworks & proficiency in calculus, linear algebra, & statistics.
Machine Translation
Explains the basic principles of translation algoritms. It is provided by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany).
Books
Statistical Machine Translation
Establishes background in NLP and statistics, then develops the basics through to current research. By the end readers can build their own translation systems. The author is Philipp Koehn.
Neural Machine Translation
This introduction to machine translation starts from the basics of neural network methods and reaches the state of the art, while giving historical, linguistic, and applied context. Code examples in Python give a hands-on blueprint for implementation. The author is still Philipp Koehn.
Translation: An advanced resource book for students
Introduces the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles. The authors are Basil Hatim and Jeremy Munday.
Glocalization Strategy Playbook
A Guide for Localization and Globalization Professionals by the GILT forum.
Other
Google Crowdsource
Crowdsourcing platform developed by Google intended to improve a host of Google services through the user-facing training of different algorithms (with translation and translation validation section).
LocalizationLab
Global community of 7000+ contributors who support the translation and localization of Internet freedom tools.
Pontoon
Various Mozilla localization projects.
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