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How can AI Help With Your Translations

This new dawn brought about by AI can open as many doors for your translation projects as you dare to imagine. Our platform offers a complete infrastructure to leverage LLM and AI. Below you can learn more about how to combine the best of both worlds, and change the way you process your language related endeavors.
Romina C. Cinquemani
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This new dawn brought about by AI can open as many doors for your translation projects as you dare to imagine. Our platform offers a complete infrastructure to leverage LLM and AI. Below you can learn more about how to combine the best of both worlds, and change the way you process your language related endeavors.    

Power in Numbers - LLM and AI GPT for Enhanced Translation

Day by day, advanced AI tools like GPT both offer and provide an ever growing suite of capabilities able to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of your translation projects. Of course, one thing is only telling you about these potential benefits for your company. Quite a different story is providing you with examples that can illustrate the actual extent of such benefits.

First, you need to know that GPT can be used to assist in translation per se, extracting relevant glossary terms, and helping project managers with cost calculations, among other functionalities. This provides coherence to your translations, regardless of word count or complexity. What were numerous and, sometimes, intricate tasks performed by a large team of linguists can now be reduced to a single, and seamless workflow with LLM and AI.

Infamous Translation Accuracy Effortlessly Accomplished

In practice, you just need to input the text to be translated along with the source and target languages in GPT. With its constant training and increasing capabilities, GPT is able to deliver translations that maintain the original meaning, plus all additional subtleties.

This guarantees cultural relevance as well as linguistic accuracy, even with complex or challenging texts.

Term Extraction and Glossaries – The Way to Go

As we all know in this industry, with or without LLM and AI, consistency has always been key in translation projects. This is particularly the case with technical or scientific terminology. Well, fear no more of lost terms in translation or duplicated definitions. GPT can be used to extract key terms from a given text and provide sharp definitions for each of them. This feature is an unbeatable resource for creating comprehensive glossaries that will keep consistency between different documents.

As simply as this: just feed the source text into GPT and request a list of key terms and their definitions. This is how human translators can compile quickly a specialized glossary for each project or batch of projects about the same subject matter for a final client.

The Mystery of Context and Nuance Now Solved

“To dumb questions, dumb responses”. That is why, by creating specific and focused prompts, translators can request GPT for the deeper meaning behind a text. This quest includes diving for cultural references as well as idiomatic expressions.

The translation process involves capturing the essence and context of the original text. If you provide a detailed context and intended meaning to GPT, it can assist you in how to make informed decisions about the target language.

The Best Cost Calculator Ever

One of the many challenges that project managers often face is estimating translation costs as accurately as possible. There are many factors to consider, among them you will find word count, complexity of the source text, and urgency of the project. Even with many more variables involved, GPT can assist in calculating these costs by analyzing the text, and applying predefined rates.

With GPT, project managers can swiftly receive an estimate that assists them in budget preparation and resource allocation. In order to achieve this, they just need to input the source text, and the most important cost parameters into GPT. This undoubtedly improves the project’s financial efficiency.

Summary Creation to Optimize Review

Sometimes the sheer volume of translation projects is overwhelming to handle, even for the most experienced and talented human translator. Today, GPT can generate summaries focused on the main points of a document. This enables faster and more efficient reviews.

By summarizing large texts, GPT helps project managers and translators grasp the core message without getting lost in tiny details.

From what we have discussed above, you now know that the combination of LLM and AI (GPT) can enhance both the efficiency and quality of the translation work. It is able to streamline workflows and improve consistency. All this while helping human translators and project managers save time, and ensuring that translations are culturally and contextually appropriate. This is key to meet the increasingly higher standards required in today’s global business world. The choice is yours. Take the leap. You will not regret it.

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Romina C. Cinquemani
Spanish translator, writer, language lover, and constant life apprentice.
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