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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 [1] |
| Founder | Serhiy Dmytryshyn |
| Website | crowdin |
Crowdin is a proprietary, cloud-based localization technology and services company. It provides software as a service for commercial products, and it provides software free of charge for non-commercial open source projects, [2] and educational projects. [3] [1]
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The company was founded in 2008 by Ukrainian programmer Serhiy Dmytryshyn as a hobby project for localization of small projects.[ citation needed ] The platform was officially launched in January 2009. Since then, it was adopted among software and game development [4] (including Minecraft ) [5] companies, for software translation. The suite includes an automated machine translation engine and a translation memory to store and reuse translations. [6]
The tool has an Online Translation Editor, [7] where texts can be translated and proofread by linguists. Translation strategies include in-house translation team, crowdsourcing, [8] [9] and translation agency. Crowdin has a marketplace with translation agencies: [10] Inlingo, Alconost, Applingua, Babble-on, Gengo, Tomedes, Translated, Translate by Humans, [11] WritePath, Farsi Translation Services, Bureau Translations, e2f, Web-lingo, Leanlane, and Acclaro.[ citation needed ]
Crowdin has integrated machine translation into the translation workflow. It currently supports the following MT systems: Microsoft Translator, Yandex.Translate, Google Translate, Amazon Translate, Watson (IBM) Translator, DeepL Translator. Machine translations can be post-edited. [12] [13]
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