taus webinar - introduction to the gengo api ecosystem

TAUS Translation Technology Showcase Webinar Matthew Romaine CTO & Co-Founder October 2nd, 2013

Today you’ll learn about Gengo and how we provide massive translation scalability through our open API ecosystem, which follows standard principles and is easy to integrate and work with.

What does “massive translation scalability” really mean?

Tools and processes to handle any volume of

translation – scaling up and down efficiently.

For customers – an interface that enables submitting content in

variable quantities, quickly.

For translators – tools that enable completing quality translations in large and small volumes, quickly.

Web API

Supporting our scalability

Infrastructure Units (words or

characters) translated since launch.

Translators Possible only with 9,000

(and growing) community of qualified translators.

Languages Support for many source

and target languages.

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Getting it done

Customers Submit Easy integration with

online documentation, free Sandbox, popular

client libraries

Translators Translate Regularly improving job

delegation and notification processes

Through API REST-based endpoints, JSON-based payloads.

2 “TOps” Team (Internal)

9,000 “Lay” Translators (Contractors)

75 Senior Translators (Contractors)

100,000+ Candidate Translators

Our Translator “Pyramid”

5 Steps to Quality

1.  Testing 2.  Training (PDFs)

3.  Educating (glossary, etc.)

4.  Reviewing (spot-check, etc.)

5.  Feedback

API Ecosystem – enables …

•  “plug-in” translation for any platform

•  scaling submissions

•  flexible UI/UX

•  flexible integration types

•  working with other APIs (TMs, speech-tech, MTs, …)

Key API Features

1. Submit any number of jobs simultaneously Multiple jobs in one request

2. Receive callback notifications when job statuses change Pending, reviewable, approved, etc.

3. Submit comments with jobs (and afterwards) Give context, links, images to translators for each job

4. Receive notifications when communicating with translators Be notified when translators leave questions or comments

5. Request revisions and give feedback API-driven means every feature has an API

Example API Integrations

•  User reviews

•  Product descriptions •  Social Media

•  Articles •  Guides

•  Manuals •  FAQ’s

•  Video Captions

from $0.05 / word

Fast (91% < 24h)

B2B2C, Video Captions Let users decide what they want translated.

B2B, UGC Translating all product

descriptions.

B2B2C, UGC Let users decide what

signs they want translated.

API Ecosystem Components

Online Documentation Freely accessible, with

sample code and examples.

Free Client Libraries Open source, in popular programming languages,

all on Github.

Simulation Environment Free, open Sandbox for

testing integrations before going to production.

Thank You

matt@gengo.com

@gengoit

http://github.com/gengo

http://developers.gengo.com

See you at

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