In an increasingly globalized world, localizing software and applications is crucial for reaching a broader audience and providing a seamless user experience. XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) is an XML-based format designed to facilitate the exchange of localization data between developers, translators, and localization tools. Machine translation (MT) technologies have also advanced significantly, offering […]
TTMEM Translations
The folks at TTMEM.com provide an extensive database of translations between various languages for use by registered users. There are strict limits on the language pairs and number of files you can download with their free membership but they also offer one day and year long memberships which have much more permissive download rules. In […]
European Commission Glossaries
The European Commission provides free access to their extensive glossary of terms and phrases between many of the popular languages of Europe. You can access this glossary by broad topics/industries, perform a search of their IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) database for specific terms/languages or download the IATE database in whole or in subsets you specify. […]
Microsoft Terminology
Microsoft provides free access to their terminology collection in TBX format in something like 100 languages. The number of terms varies widely by language but you may find many common terms listed which may simplify your translations and improve consistency for your terminology in the more widely used languages. You can access the terminology collection […]
Google Translator Account
You can get access to the Google Translator API at https://console.developers.google.com/project/apt-bonbon-731. Once your account is set up, enter the credentials in the XLIFF Buddy Preferences Panel.
Bing Translator Account
You can find information about setting up your account for the Bing Translator Service at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/translation/p/gettingstarted1.aspx from Microsoft. At the time of this writing, Microsoft is offering a free account to translate up to 2,000,000 per month.
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