Crowdin

Short description: Localization technology company

Crowdin

Type| Private
Founded| 2009; 14 years ago (2009) [1]
Founder| Serhiy Dmytryshyn
Website| crowdin.com

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]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Translation mechanics
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## History

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]

## 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, Yandex.Translate, Google Translate, Amazon Translate, Watson (IBM) Translator, DeepL Translator. Machine translations can be post-edited.[12][13]

## See also

* MemoQ
* Phrase
* Poedit
* Pootle
* Transifex
* Weblate

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Crowdin About Us Page". https://support.crowdin.com/company-description/#about-crowdin. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
2. ↑ Damiani, Ernesto; Frati, Fulvio; Riehle, Dirk; Wasserman, Anthony I. (2015-04-16). Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact: 11th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2015, Florence, Italy, May 16-17, 2015, Proceedings. Springer. ISBN 9783319178370. https://books.google.com/books?id=zflICAAAQBAJ.
3. ↑ "If you're building awesome non-profit projects that could use the power of Crowdin, we're happy to help." (in en). 2019-04-17. https://crowdin.com/pricing#annual.
4. ↑ "Localization tools for game developers | Video Game Localization - Expert Game Translation Services". 18 October 2017. http://www.leveluptranslation.com/single-post/game-localization-tools.
5. ↑ Jiménez-Crespo, Miguel A. (2017-04-11). Crowdsourcing and Online Collaborative Translations: Expanding the limits of Translation Studies. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027265852. https://books.google.com/books?id=GO9ODgAAQBAJ&q=crowdin.
6. ↑ "Community Translation Team - July 15th, 2017 - Community Translation Team" (in en-gb). Joomla! Volunteers Portal™. https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/community-translation-team/reports/597-community-translation-team-july-15th-2017.
7. ↑ "THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSLATION". The MagPi Magazine (71): 86–87. July 2018. https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/MagPi71.pdf.
8. ↑ Nataly Kelly, Rebecca Ray, Donald A. DePalma (Summer 2011). "From crawling to sprinting: Community translation goes mainstream". Common Sense Advisory. https://lans.ua.ac.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/article/viewFile/278/176.
9. ↑ Morera, Aram; Aouad, Lamine; Collins, J. J. (2012). Daniel, Florian; Barkaoui, Kamel; Dustdar, Schahram. eds. "Assessing Support for Community Workflows in Localisation". Business Process Management Workshops. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Springer Berlin Heidelberg) 99: 195–206. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28108-2_20. ISBN 9783642281082.
10. ↑ Välikangas, Liisa; Gibbert, Michael (2015-09-11). Strategic Innovation: The Definitive Guide to Outlier Strategies. FT Press. ISBN 9780133980141. https://books.google.com/books?id=v-fJCgAAQBAJ&q=crowdin.
11. ↑ Translate by Humans
12. ↑ Sin-wai, Chan (2016-10-26). The Future of Translation Technology: Towards a World without Babel. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317553267. https://books.google.com/books?id=CjslDwAAQBAJ.
13. ↑ Daniel, Florian; Barkaoui, Kamel; Dustdar, Schahram (2012-01-25). Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2011 International Workshops, Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 29, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783642281075. https://books.google.com/books?id=0g1FL5xeeE4C&q=crowdin.

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