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AI translation

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Translate all your content in a few minutes to up to ~70 languages.

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Prepare your content

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Follow the tutorials for preparing your editorial pages and express dictionary before using the AI translation.

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AI Models

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We offer different AI Models to create translations. Please select an available AI Model to get started. Each AI Model has slightly different capabilities.

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Read the AI Model Info for pointers on which Model fits your needs best.

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Test availability with a test string by clicking the check availability button.

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Go to AI translation

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Select the freshly copied language tree to be translated. Select a source and target language and hit translate. All the pages in the selected tree will be translated to the target language. 

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A blue loading bar at the top of the window will show an approximation of overall progress.

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Please do not close the window or tab of your browser and let the process finish. Usually it only takes seconds to minutes, but depends on complexity and amount of data to be handled.

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Finished sitetree translation

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When the process is finished, you can go to the Sitemap and select the french localization. The pages, their names, descriptions and editorial blocks are now translated. Click any editorial page to check the translated version.

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Edit editorial translations

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The newly translated pages work just like any other ContentCrank page. The only difference is that the AI translation added a new a version with translated text. That means you can check the first version to see the untranslated text. However editing is a breeze as usual. Click the gear icon in the top left corner to open the composer and edit all fields for this page.

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Translate Express data

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Go to AI Translation and scroll down to Interface translation. Express data is separated from page and block data and works a little different. The good thing: no copying is necessary. Just select source and target language and click Translate Interface.

Every express object retrieves its localized strings from a central dictionary file. If any express related values or names have translation errors, you need to search and edit the translation in the interface translation dictionary for this language. If a value or name is wrong in the original language, you need to edit the express entry or entity itself and update all dictionaries.

Success

A blue loading bar at the top of the window will show an approximation of overall progress.

Warning

Please do not close the window or tab of your browser and let the process finish. Usually it only takes seconds to minutes, but depends on complexity and amount of data to be handled.

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Processing time

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The first translation processes for new language can take a few minutes as there are a lot of new pages and entries to translate. The currently available AI Models answer one request at a time and that can take a while for a few thousand requests. Best go grab a coffee or open a new window/tab to keep working in your ContentCrank.

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ContentCrank is designed to carry out such long running processes and will work through any pile of tasks, as long as the browser window stays open and does not reload.

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Finished Express translation

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Navigate to any Express content page to see the translated strings. You will probably recognize some weird Express values and names. Depending on the AI Model and training data used the quality of translations and frequency of errors can vary with each translation. Most wrong translations happen with very short text strings and values which carry very little context. Anyway it is easy to edit and resolve the wrong translations.

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AI translations offer a quick and solid foundation for multilingual content. Nevertheless any machine translated content should be checked by a professional translator.

Success

We are steadily training the available models to create correct translations, so the translations will get even better over time.

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Content Creation Tutorials about the workflow and best practices to create and edit content and structure. Express content pages
Article Pages
Database Import Tutorials for using the database features. Learn about connected databases, dump imports and updating existing entries and entities. Import a SQL dump
Connect to a remote database
Importing tables
Express Data Objects Express entities are data objects which can contain any combination of attributes and associations. Express entities can be created by a database import or from scratch. Some default entities are built in and ready to use as part of your ContentCrank. We prepared tutorials for the most frequently needed tasks. Express Entries and Entities
Entity settings
Express content pages
Express forms
IDML Export Tutorials for Export features. Learn to create templates from your designs and to export idml documents. IDML Export
Translation Tutorials about the multilingual features. Learn about translating all your pages and express objects, editing translations and adding more languages. Prepare Editorial Content for AI translation
Prepare Express data for translation
AI translation
Edit Express translations

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AI translation Translate all your content in a few minutes to up to ~70 languages. Translation
Article Pages Article pages offer an easy way to create editorial content. Content Creation
Connect to a remote database If you want to pull data from a live database you can connect directly to it and update the objects later. Database Import
Edit Express translations Learn where to edit and correct Express translations. Translation
Entity settings Define how units, labels and associated columns are displayed. Express Data Objects
Express content pages Learn how to create content pages with express entities. Entries can be ordered, sorted and filtered in many ways. Content Creation
Express Data Objects
Express Entries and Entities A quick explanation for express data objects. We use the spaceships example from the database import tutorials as reference. Imported express entities like the spaceships mirror their database table`s structure like columns, column types and column order. Generally put, express data objects create a logic layer between raw values, associations and their form of output. That means you can not only edit any value itself, the global structure and display of each express entry value can be customized. Express Data Objects
Express forms You can create different forms for different contexts like a full blown product katalogue ouput with all columns and values or a simplified output with only selected attributes like images and headlines. Express Data Objects
IDML Export Learn to export your content to idml. IDML Export
Import a SQL dump If you have a SQL file - a dump or database backup, you can import it using the Upload Database Dump feature. Database Import
Importing tables No matter if you connected directly to a database or uploaded a dump, the importing follows the same rules. Database Import
Prepare Editorial Content for AI translation Create a new localization for your pages. Translation
Prepare Express data for translation Create a dictionary for your express content. Translation
Start your ContentCrank trial Create a personalized demo system to try out our services for a week. Use predefined use cases to see everything in action without creating your own data - which you still can.
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