AI translation runs in the cloud and needs a connected account and credits. What credits are, and roughly how far they go, is explained in how credits work.
Run a translation
Open Translate, set the options below, and choose Translate automatically. Translate a whole set in one run rather than string by string: the same volume costs noticeably more one string at a time.
Translations are AI-generated. Review them before you publish — any string can be edited by hand.
Effort
- Regular — fast; good translations, follows simple rules.
- High — follows rules and adapts to box size well.
- Extra — highest quality and instruction adherence.
Higher effort spends more credits per string.
Fit text to its box
Turn on Adapt length to text box and every locale gets its own length budget; anything that overflows goes back for another pass. Attempts sets how many passes it may take:
- 1 — translate once, no resizing retries;
- 2 — one retry if the text overflows its box;
- 3 — up to two retries to fit tight boxes. This is the default.
Each attempt is a full translation and spends credits. One or two usually do it; sometimes all three are needed.
A box that is too tight works against you: in some locales it costs both copy quality and extra attempts. Leave some slack, or use auto layout. Meaning comes first — if a line cannot be shortened without losing it, the translation stays longer than the box, and the remedy is a smaller font size or a shorter source string.
Rules, glossary and locale instructions
- General rules — instructions for every locale: tone, style, what to avoid.
- Glossary — terms to keep consistent. Mark a term Don't translate to keep it as it is, or give it a Custom translation.
- Locale instructions — notes for one locale only, such as market-specific phrasing.
Only the strings you send, together with your rules and glossary, leave the file. See Data and privacy.