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So our approach here to vet these: Between the two of us, we do speak 7 languages well enough to judge a localized site, and we have people around us for revie
by stuess 2mo ago
So our approach here to vet these:
Between the two of us, we do speak 7 languages well enough to judge a localized site, and we have people around us for review on some more.
We run our workflow for a new localized version of say, German, then judge the quality and add rules to our prompt, guidance and voice guide for issues we spot, never hand-editing the actual strings.
We then re-run it until it's in a place where we feel this feels fairly native (feels transcreated, not calqued) and serves its purpose well).
Once we had that done in a good amount of locales, we started running it in languages we can't judge ourselves. Here we do depend on people on the app/website to spot and help us if we got it wrong somewhere, so it's a living process that evolves.
Here's an example of how that guidance and prompt evolved over time, in case you're interested: https://gist.github.com/tobyurff/2b461c259c34dfc6758a39329822dab8 https://gist.github.com/tobyurff/2b461c259c34dfc6758a3932982...