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Hello everybody,   I hope everyone is doing well! :)   We are developing some applications which intend to be used in every single facility of the company, more than 50 business units having tens/hundreds of thousands of access every day. Well, as I said, it's a global application...   Obviously, we will also have different languages among them.   Today we are relying on a semi-automated process composed of: 1 - Export the original language file (excel) from Mendix Studio Pro 2 - Perform a bulk translation for all mother languages we have factories using AWS Translate 3 - Import the translation again in Studio Pro   We already knew the translation would not be perfect but as we started proliferating the system some sites requested to translate more or less the whole system as the auto-translation is not accurate enough for the large audience. People with zero english sklll who would not be able to understand why "plant" (a common word to refer to a business unit) is being translated to something similar to "flower".   Somehow we need to empower the translation process to be done by the native speaker (internal employee) who is also capable of understanding the words and the meaning of the words in the context of the project. You might be asking yourself, why they are not asking the native speaker to help them before deploying the system at the new unity. Well, it's simple, it would work in a perfect world but it's not working for our company size (for sure we tried).   Had you have experienced a similar or maybe the same issue? Do you have a clue how to solve it? Any idea is welcome :)

asked 2024-01-10

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