Archives of Localisation & Multilingual Strategy - The French Translator
4 August 2026
One of the most common misunderstandings about AI in localization is simple: if the text sounds more natural, human effort must go down. In practice, it is not that straightforward. Yes, generative models often produce more fluent output than older systems. Yes, they can speed up part of the production process. But that fluency creates […]
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28 July 2026
For a long time, linguistic quality was treated as a final verification step. Teams created content, translated it, and then reviewed it before publishing. That model could work in slower production cycles, with limited volumes and relatively stable deliverables. That is no longer the reality. Today, teams manage serial, multimodal, and continuously updated content: product […]
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21 July 2026
For a long time, quality in translation and localization was assessed through a relatively simple lens: grammar, syntax, terminology, spelling, and fluency. Those criteria still matter. But they are no longer enough. In environments where content moves across product, marketing, support, legal, audiovisual, gaming, documentation, and interfaces, a more important question has emerged: does this […]
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7 July 2026
For a long time, localization was treated as the final layer: design the product, write the content, then translate it. That model no longer works once a product serves multiple markets, languages, and usage contexts. The reason is simple: language is not decoration around the user experience. It is a functional part of the experience […]
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30 June 2026
For years, translation memories, glossaries, and terminology databases were treated mainly as efficiency tools. Useful, yes, but largely operational. AI changes that. These resources are now strategic assets. In practical terms, companies that invested early in the quality of their multilingual content are discovering that those efforts now generate a new kind of return. The […]
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23 June 2026
For a long time, linguistic data was treated as a byproduct of translation: translation memories, glossaries, a few style guides, and sometimes corpora useful for training an engine. That view is now too narrow. Today, linguistic data is taking on a different role. It is no longer valuable only as training material. It is becoming […]
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16 June 2026
AI can produce an impressive demonstration in just a few days. A well-designed prompt, a limited set of content, and a motivated team are often enough to showcase promising results. Yet in multilingual localization, that initial success says very little about an organization’s ability to deploy the solution at scale. This is the essence of […]
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9 June 2026
In many organizations, AI was initially introduced as a highly visible layer: new interfaces, manual prompts, continuous testing, and human validation at every step. That phase served an important purpose. It helped teams explore use cases, identify potential gains, and build awareness around emerging capabilities. But as AI adoption matures, a limitation becomes increasingly clear: […]
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2 June 2026
Localization has long been treated as a final step: a product is built, content is written, and only then is it “sent for translation.” This sequential approach dominated for years, especially in organizations where product, marketing, and language teams operated in silos. That model no longer reflects the operational reality of SaaS companies and global […]
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26 May 2026
In many organizations, the AI conversation still starts with a model question: which LLM to choose, what level of performance to expect, which provider to prioritize. In localization, that approach is too narrow. The real issue is not which model looks the most impressive today. The real issue is how to turn AI capabilities into […]
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19 May 2026
Automation is now present in almost every multilingual content workflow. But a key question is emerging for marketing, product and localization teams: should everything be automated in the same way, with the same rules and the same level of quality expectations? The answer is, of course, no. In practice, the most mature organizations are not […]
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12 May 2026
Automation is often presented as an obvious trajectory: more tools, more automated workflows, more volume processed, therefore more performance. On the ground, reality is more nuanced. Yes, AI and automation bring productivity and efficiency gains. But they can also degrade perceived quality, blur expectations, weaken client relationships and, in some cases, destroy value instead of […]
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