Guides and engineering notes on translation, dubbing, voices and subtitles — from the people who build Traxlate.
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Traxlate started as a document translator. It is now four products on one credit wallet — translation, video dubbing, AI voices and subtitles — sharing the same editor, glossary and privacy guarantees. Here is what changed, and why it's one platform rather than four tools.
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Good dubbing is not just translated audio pasted over a video. It keeps each speaker sounding like themselves, preserves the music and ambient track, and lands every line on its moment. We explain how the pipeline works, where it can go wrong, and how to review a dub before it ships.
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Clone a voice from a few seconds of reference audio, then have it speak a hundred languages — or pick from a curated cast. We explain how modern TTS and voice cloning work, what cross-lingual transfer can and can't do, and how word-level prosody editing replaces re-recording.
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Captioning is transcription plus timing; translating subtitles adds a second hard problem on top. We explain soft vs burned-in subtitles, why files-only delivery is usually what you want, how speaker labels and cue timing survive translation, and when to re-time an existing SRT instead of starting over.
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Translating an online store is not just product descriptions — it's legal notices, shipping terms, return policies, checkout flows, and customer support content. We explain how to build a repeatable, cost-efficient localization pipeline for e-commerce operations.
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Government notices, regulatory filings, and civil records have specific formatting, jurisdiction, and data-handling requirements that generic translation tools don't address. We explain the standards, quality tiers, and compliance considerations that official document workflows require.
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Shared glossaries, per-member API keys, role-based job access, and delegation workflows — everything a language team, agency, or enterprise translation department needs to move from one-off requests to a repeatable, auditable pipeline.
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Translating a PDF or DOCX is not the same as translating text. Tables collapse, fonts break, headers drift. We explain how layout-aware translation works, when OCR is needed, and how to produce a final document that looks like it was written in the target language.
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Prospectuses, IFRS/GAAP statements, annual reports, and MiFID regulatory filings all carry legal force. One mistranslated figure or misrendered table can create liability. We explain the quality controls, glossary practices, and export fidelity that professional financial translation requires.
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Birth certificates, marriage certificates, police clearances, and visa applications all have specific translation requirements. We explain what USCIS, IRCC, and EU immigration offices actually accept, the difference between certified and notarised translation, and how to produce filing-ready output.
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Contracts, court transcripts, immigration petitions — legal translation is different from every other kind. One ambiguous term can invalidate a filing. We explain the technical and process controls that distinguish professional legal translation from generic machine output.
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Discharge summaries, consent forms, clinical trial protocols — medical documents require terminology precision that generic translation tools miss. We explain how OCR, glossary enforcement, and human review work together for healthcare workflows.
Engineering
A candid look at what actually improved — LLM-based polish passes, better low-resource rankers, RTL layout reconstruction — and what still frustrates us. Benchmarks, lessons, and a roadmap.
Security
Legal, immigration, medical and financial documents need more than promises. GDPR end-to-end, never used to train any model, never shared with third parties, retention you control down to immediate deletion — explained in plain language.
Quality
The worst translation errors are the fluent ones — confident, smooth sentences that quietly say the wrong thing. Traxlate measures every sentence against the meaning of your source so that failure mode never reaches you. Here's why that matters for the documents that matter.
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Scanned PDFs, photo-captured forms, and handwritten certificates are the hardest documents to translate. We explain what happens during OCR, how to choose the right scan profile, and when to request a human review pass.
Quality
High-resource languages like Spanish and French get excellent machine translation. Low-resource languages often get garbage. We explain how Traxlate closes that gap and why every supported language gets the same professional-grade quality — no degraded fallback for the long tail.
Developers
A step-by-step walkthrough for developers: creating an API key, sending your first translation request, handling async jobs with webhooks, and setting per-key spend caps to stay within budget.