Online help, strings, audio and flash files

APT translates half a million words into 12 languages for online help, strings and audio and flash files for a well-known software company.

When your business is purely online you have to get the tone and language right for each region you do business in.

To embark on its first localisation project, a medium-sized software company was in need of a company that could produce accurately localised content that would migrate with their applications.

Understandably nervous, the client was given much re-assurance in the early stages of our collaboration and quickly became confident that we were the right localisation partner

Brief

Phase 1 – Translate and localise User Interface (UI) content and Help Resource files into 12 languages including Japanese and Korean
Phase 2 – Translate and localise audio, Flash and Read-me files into the same range of languages
Ensure localisation consistency in all these files

Solution

Full in-house localisation facilities at the Project Managers’ disposal
Qualified software translators worked on the project, familiar with the relevant coding, ensuring clean format for content migration
Our localisation facilities enabled us to work directly with all the files
Help Resource files manipulated using XML format and in-house tools
Translation memory tools fully used and text stored in a translation memory for future work
Appropriate script readers and voice-over artists used for audio work in conjunction with approved client terminology
Working with the client’s in-country teams guaranteed consistency

Result

Accurate foreign language packs provided
Client successfully marketing and selling in 13 countries as planned

Next Phase

Six further countries to follow in September 2007
Software updates localised every 6 weeks

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