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Sep 16 - Sep 22, 2024

Articles / Machine translation

• Awesome New Languages in Machine Translation (⭐13) - A list of initiatives for supporting MT (mostly with opensource models) for new languages (mostly lower-resourced ones).

Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2024

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• sphinx-intl (⭐71) - A Sphinx utility that make it easy to translate and to apply translations.

May 13 - May 19, 2024

Tools / Automatic translation for end users

• Alexa Translations - Alexa Translations A.I. brings leading AI and machine translation to the legal, financial and government sectors.

Tools / Other tools

• Ninja i18n - A GitHub action for translation linting in pull requests.

Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2024

Platforms / Localization and translation platforms

• Inlang - The globalization ecosystem for software companies.

Apps / Translation software

• Fink - Translation editor / CAT software with no-code setup and repository-based operation.

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• Localizejs - Translations for websites and applications to new languages and streamline translation workflow.

• ParaglideJS - Synchronous, typesafe and lightweight i18n library.

Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2023

Translations

• French (⭐2)

Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2023

Books / Machine translation

• Glocalization Strategy Playbook (⭐46) - A Guide for Localization and Globalization Professionals by the GILT forum.

Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2023

Tools / Automatic translation for end users

• 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 / Machine translation for developers

• AutoML Translation Documentation - AutoML Translation by Google.

Sep 26 - Oct 02, 2022

Platforms / Localization and translation platforms

• Locize - Proprietary translation platform.

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• FormatJS - A modular collection of JavaScript libraries for internationalization that are focused on formatting numbers, dates, and strings for displaying to people.

• 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.

Articles / For developers

• Globalization and localization in ASP.NET Core - Article about Globalization and localization in ASP.NET Core.

Jul 11 - Jul 17, 2022

Articles / Introductions to internationalization

• Internationalization vs. Localization: The Difference Between l10n and I18n - Blog post about the difference between l10n and I18n from Crowdin.

Jun 27 - Jul 03, 2022

Platforms / Localization and translation platforms

• Lokalise - Translation platform for developers.

May 09 - May 15, 2022

Translations

• Spanish

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2022

Platforms / Localization and translation platforms

• Tolgee - Open-source, developer & translator friendly platform enabling users to translate directly in the app they develop.

Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2022

Apps / Translation software

• Project Fluent - Asymetric translations (eg. gender variations) for localization.

Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2022

Tools / Automatic translation for end users

• Watson Language Translator - A service on the IBM Cloud that enables dynamically translation news, patents, or conversational documents.

Nov 01 - Nov 07, 2021

Platforms / Platform-specific tools

• PO file editor - A free tool for translating PO files for localization with Gettext.

Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2021

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• WPML - A WordPress plugin that allows running multilingual websites with a single WordPress install.

May 24 - May 30, 2021

Platforms / Platform-specific tools

• Respresso - Collaborative online resource manager for localizations, images, colors, etc. that generates platform-specific files and delivers them directly to your source code.

Mar 01 - Mar 07, 2021

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate and display dates and times in JavaScript.

Tools / Other tools

• SimpleLocalize CLI (⭐58) - A CLI for finding translation keys in project files.

Articles / For developers

• What is 'hreflang'? - What is hreflang attribute and how it can affect your SERP.

Blogs / Machine translation

• 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.

Feb 08 - Feb 14, 2021

Platforms / Localization and translation platforms

• SimpleLocalize - A simple translation management for software projects.

Jan 11 - Jan 17, 2021

Translations

• Italian (⭐5)

Apps / Automated translation

• LibreTranslate (⭐8.4k) - 100% Self-Hosted web app to translate text, based on Argos Translate.

Apps / Translation software

• Argos Translate (⭐3.7k) - Completely open source offline translation app written in Python and based on OpenNMT. It can also be used as a Python library.

Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2021

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• Polyglot (⭐401) - A fast, painless, open-source internationalization plugin for Jekyll blogs.

Tools / Other tools

• Globalize (⭐4.8k) - A JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverage the official Unicode CLDR JSON data.

Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2021

Tools / Machine translation for developers

• attranslate (⭐334) - A tool for semi-automated translations of cross-platform apps or websites.

Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2020

Apps / Translation software

• OmegaT - Free translation memory / CAT software that works on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• Ruby I18n - Rails internationalization (i18n) API.

• Quasar I18n - App internationalization (i18n) in Quasar framework.

• Python-i18n - Python internationalization (i18n) package.

• Jsproxy for Crowdin - Add-on to Crowdin.

Tools / Machine translation for developers

• SwiftGoogleTranslate (⭐100) - A framework to use cloud translation API by Google in Swift.

Articles / Introductions to internationalization

• 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.

Articles / For developers

• 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).

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 machine translation, augmented translation.

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.

Blogs / Machine translation

• Speakt - Well-rounded resource, offering in-depth information from the best professionals in the industry on everything related to translation.

• Lexico - Provides a collection of dictionaries of English and Spanish, and curiosities about many words and languages (in the "Explore" section). It is produced by Oxford University Press.

• The Translator's Teacup - Contains good tips for beginner translators.

Online Courses / Machine translation

• 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 / Machine translation

• 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.

Other / Machine translation

• 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).

Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2020

Other / Machine translation

• Pontoon - Various Mozilla localization projects.

Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• Translate (⭐841) - A set of software and documentation designed to help make the lives of localizers both more productive and less frustrating.

Nov 30 - Dec 06, 2020

Translations

• English (⭐136)

• Polish (⭐136)

Platforms / Localization and translation platforms

• Crowdin - Closed source cloud-based localization technology and services company.

• LocaleApp - App for localization and translation.

• Transifex - Proprietary, web-based translation platform, globalization management system (GMS).

• Weblate - Copylefted libre web-based continuous translation platform.

Platforms / Project management

• Zanata - Web-based translation platform for translators, content creators and developers to manage localisation projects.

• Traduora (⭐2k) - A platform to manage translation workflow in teams.

Platforms / Platform-specific tools

• GitLocalize - Powerful localization platform that syncs with your GitHub repository and lets you continuously translate its content.

Apps / Automated translation

• RTranslator (⭐6.3k) - A simultaneous translator app for Android based on NLLB and Whisper that runs locally.

• Crow Translate (⭐1.8k) - 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 (⭐17k) - An app for Windows, Mac and Linux that automatically translate and adapt a text when copied in the clipboard.

Tools / Automatic translation for end users

• Bergamot - Client-side translation in the browser.

Tools / Libraries and tools for developers

• deep-translator (⭐1.5k) - 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 (⭐1.6k) - 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.

• Vue I18n - Internationalization plugin for Vue.js.

• i18n Ally (⭐3.9k) - Extension for VSCode, all in one about i18n.

Tools / Other tools

• npm i18n - Lightweight simple translation module with dynamic json storage.

• Pootle (⭐1.5k) - An online translation management tool with a translation interface focused on localization of applications' graphical user interfaces. It is used by LibreOffice.

Articles / Introductions to internationalization

• Stack Overflow Q&A-1 - Localization and internationalization, what's the difference?

Articles / For developers

• Angular and i18n - Angular i18n guide.

• Flutter i18n - Internationalizing Flutter apps.

Other / Machine translation

• LocalizationLab - Global community of 7000+ contributors who support the translation and localization of Internet freedom tools.