Crowdin
| File:Crowdin logo.svg | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 [1] |
| Founder | Serhiy Dmytryshyn |
| Website | crowdin |
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]
History
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The company was founded in 2009 by Ukrainian programmer Serhiy Dmytryshyn as a hobby project for localization of small projects.[4] The platform was officially launched in January 2009. Since then, it was adopted among software and game development[5] (including Minecraft)[6] companies, for software translation. The suite includes an automated machine translation engine and a translation memory to store and reuse translations.[7]
Translation mechanics
[edit | edit source]The tool has an Online Translation Editor,[8] where texts can be translated and proofread by linguists. Translation strategies include in-house translation team, crowdsourcing,[9][10] and translation agency. Crowdin has a marketplace with translation agencies:[11] Inlingo, Alconost, Applingua, Babble-on, Gengo, Tomedes, Translated, Translate by Humans,[12] 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.[13][14]
See also
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