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Crowdin
Localization technology company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Crowdin is a proprietary, cloud-based localization technology and services company. It provides software as a service for commercial products, and it provides software free of charge for non-commercial open source projects,[2] and educational projects.[3][1]
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The company was founded in 2008 by Ukrainian programmer Serhiy Dmytryshyn as a hobby project for localization of small projects.[citation needed] The platform was officially launched in January 2009. Since then, it was adopted among software and game development[4] (including Minecraft)[5] companies, for software translation. The suite includes an automated machine translation engine and a translation memory to store and reuse translations.[6]
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Translation mechanics
The tool has an Online Translation Editor,[7] where texts can be translated and proofread by linguists. Translation strategies include in-house translation team, crowdsourcing,[8][9] and translation agency. Crowdin has a marketplace with translation agencies:[10] Inlingo, Alconost, Applingua, Babble-on, Gengo, Tomedes, Translated, Translate by Humans,[11] WritePath, Farsi Translation Services, Bureau Translations, e2f, Web-lingo, Leanlane, and Acclaro.[citation needed]
Crowdin has integrated machine translation into the translation workflow. It currently supports the following MT systems: Microsoft Translator, Google Translate, Amazon Translate, Watson (IBM) Translator, DeepL Translator. Machine translations can be post-edited.[12][13]
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