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What is glossary?

Glossary is a powerful feature that allows you to define specific translations for words or phrases in any language pair. Glossaries help you maintain consistency across translations by:

  • Ensuring specific terms, like brand names, remain untranslated to uphold brand identity across all languages.
  • Standardizing industry-specific jargon or technical terms, preventing inconsistencies that could confuse your audience.

Using glossaries can save time by reducing repetitive manual edits and improve the overall quality of translations.

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Create glossary

Each glossary applies to a single language pair.

You can create multiple glossaries for same language pair to customize them for different types of content.

To create a new glossary:

  • use create Glossary
  • specify a name for your glossary
  • specify source language
  • specify destination language
  • define your entries array in a key: value format, where each key-value pair represents a term and its translation. Here:
    • the key is the term in the source language (src_lang)
    • the value is its translation in the destination language (dst_lang).

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Use glossary

Once you’ve created a glossary and received the glossary_id, you can specify this ID when creating new project.

Glossary can be used only for projects with the same source-destination language pair. A glossary created for a specific destination language (i.e. es) will work across all dialects we support for that language (es-es, es-us, etc).

Currently, it’s not possible to apply or change a glossary for a project that has already been created. This feature is planned for future releases.

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Edit glossary

You can edit glossary or delete it by using corresponding endpoints. Changes made to a glossary will not impact projects where that glossary has already been applied.

You can check the version of glossary used in project by reviewing glossary_version parameter in get Project response.