Pre-assessment and optimization – Venga Localization AccuScan

It is likely that your company has a lot of legacy information, already produced for previous releases. Before beginning to localize any information into multiple languages, a Venga Localization pre-assessment can save you thousands of dollars and person hours. This service is recommended whether you plan to handle translations with multiple vendors, internally or with one dedicated service. The Venga Localization pre-assessment highlights areas that could be problematic during localization and gives you the chance to make smart, cost-saving changes to your content before the localization process begins.

By creating a concise, clear and consistent source copy, you reduce translation cost and increase translation quality across all target languages. Read more below.

Venga Localization will perform a comprehensive diagnostic of your information, resulting in benefits such as:

• Identify inconsistencies throughout your source content, implement fixes and subsequently reduce translation time and cost.
• Ensure adherence to existing glossaries or terminology bases to further save on your translation projects while protecting your branding and trademarks.
• Optimize source text for use of Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools and Machine Translation (MT)
• Create and update rules for future authoring based on legacy text style to ensure that your company’s messaging and voice remain consistent and are well accepted in your selected geo locales.

A simple change of wording to one segment of content may not seem like a big deal in terms of cost, yet multiply that change by 25 or 30 languages, and you can begin to gauge the invaluable benefit of performing a pre-assessment.

The right changes to your source information trigger a noticeable decrease in costs during localization and a better overall user experience.

For example, by merging all the instances in the text that relate to a specific text string, such as “Server started” from 39 variations to one, reduces the translation cost for that string by a factor of 39. If you then translate the content into 10 languages, let’s say, your savings are increased by a factor of 390. And this is true for every update of that content.