Choosing the right translation flow, or type, is crucial for ensuring that your content is accurately and effectively communicated to your target audience.
Whether you need quick, affordable translations or high-quality, critical accuracy, understanding the different translation flows available can help you make the best decision for your project.
An Overview of Unbabel’s Translation Flows
Unbabel offers four different translation flows to choose from, suitable for every type of budget and need.
Basic
Basic translation is an AI-only translation service. It uses Unbabel's exclusive AI technology to deliver fast and affordable translations.
Best for: Basic translation is best for instant translation needs, as cost-effectively as possible. Great for simulations or any content where speed is key and exact accuracy isn’t critical.
Features:
- Speed: Basic translation is the fastest option, providing real-time translation.
- Affordability: This is the most cost-effective translation flow, making it suitable for projects with tight budgets.
- Quality output: Provides machine-generated translations without human editing and no customer-specific terminology, which means it may contain inaccuracies or grammatical issues.
- Key benefits: Real-time translation capabilities.
Plus
Plus translation can combine machine translation with human post-editing. A human will review your translated content if the machine translation quality score falls below a certain standard. This blend of AI and human expertise ensures better accuracy than machine-only translations while maintaining cost-effectiveness.
Best for: This type of translation is best for general use cases where a balance between cost and quality is needed. It does not provide real-time translation. It’s a useful option for customer service emails, product descriptions, user reviews, and travel listings.
Features:
- Balanced quality and cost: Plus translation offers an excellent balance of quality and affordability, making it a popular choice for many businesses.
- Human editing: Human post-editing ensures that the translations are more accurate and contextually appropriate.
- Example use case: Ideal for tasks where you need accurate translations but not in real-time. Think customer service emails or product descriptions.
- Quality output: Delivers accurate translations, quick translations.
- Key benefits: High throughput and a good balance of quality and cost.
Pro
Pro translation involves machine translation followed by a comprehensive human review. This process ensures a high level of accuracy and quality, making it suitable for important but non-critical content.
Best for: Pro translation is best for high-quality requirements where the content's accuracy and professionalism are crucial. It’s great for product documentation, FAQs, and internal communications that are not business-critical.
Features:
- Human-reviewed: The human review process adds another set of guardrails to the quality of the translation.
- Reliability: Human-reviewed translation ensures that the translated content is reliable and of high professional standard.
- Quality output: Ensures accurate content that meets linguistic and readability standards.
- Key benefits: High accuracy and readability, making it suitable for professional use.
Premium
Premium translation involves machine translation followed by two thorough rounds of human review. This method guarantees the highest possible precision and quality, making it perfect for critical and high-stakes content.
Best for: Premium translation is ideal for content that requires critical accuracy and industry specific terminology. This is the best option for marketing content, press releases, web content, brochures, newsletters, corporate presentations, event information, technical documentation, business and financial reports, legal documentation, medical/health documentation, and engineering/IT related documentation.
Features:
- Unmatched precision: Double human review guarantees the highest level of accuracy.
- Critical accuracy: This flow is designed for content that cannot afford errors.
- Quality output: Provides highly accurate translations suitable for high-risk content that could impact reputation.
- Key benefits: High accuracy, high readability, and domain specialization
Create Your First Translation Project with Unbabel
Unbabel has a range of translation flows suitable for every type of project. Double-check the type of translation flow that best suits your needs, and get started translation with Unbabel in just a few clicks. Email us at experience@unbabel.com.