Managed AI localization for high-volume content
AI translation services with a native linguist on every job
Our AI translation services give high-volume programs what AI on its own does not. AI agents translate and check against your glossary, translation memory (TM), and style rules, and a native linguist decides what changes. We run it as a managed service, inside your files or your platform.
- Terminology that holds across releases. Every approved term carries its source and is checked in every file.
- Human depth where the risk is. You choose the service level for each content type.
- Evidence on every delivery. You get the quality-gate result and an issue log, ready to show your stakeholders.
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- Issue
- AgentThe glossary check flagged “Kennwort” for “password.”
- Edit
- “Kennwort” changed to “Passwort.”
- Reason
- Your glossary sets “Passwort” as the approved term.
- Decided by
- LinguistApproved the edit and logged it in the issue log.
- Gate
- Quality gate: passedAutomated checks on the delivered file passed. Linguistic decisions are made by the linguist.
Agents do the volume work, and a linguist makes the call
Each step in the cycle has a named owner: an agent, a linguist, or you, so you always know who decided what. Agents test every file against the rules that can be checked automatically, and the linguist judges the rest and decides what changes.
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Step 1: Intake and scoping
We measure your files and confirm the service level with you.
Who acts: AgentLinguistClient
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Step 2: Terminology with sources
Agents propose terms from your glossary, TM, and published content, each with its source.
Who acts: AgentLinguistClient
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Step 3: Calibrated AI translation
An AI agent translates against your glossary, TM, and rules.
Who acts: Agent
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Step 4: Native read and linguist edit
An agent flags text that reads like a translation, and a native linguist checks or post-edits.
Who acts: AgentLinguist
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Step 5: Independent checks
Separate agents check accuracy, grammar, style, and terminology, each blind to the others.
Who acts: AgentLinguist
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Step 6: Debate and decision
Agents argue each finding, a judge agent recommends, and the reviewer decides.
Who acts: AgentLinguistClient
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Step 7: Quality gate and report
An automated gate checks the delivered file. If it fails, the file does not ship.
Who acts: AgentLinguistClient
Illustrative run on sample text. Scripted, not live production.
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Intake and scoping
All levels
AgentLinguistClient
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Terminology with sources
All levels
AgentLinguistClient
- 3
Calibrated AI translation
All levels
Agent
- 4
Native read and linguist edit
All levels, at different depths
AgentLinguist
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Independent checks
AI + Edit and AI + Edit + Review
AgentLinguist
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Debate and decision
AI + Edit + Review
AgentLinguistClient
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Quality gate and report
All levels
AgentLinguistClient
Then: learn from your reviewers. Every edit your reviewer makes is compared with what we delivered. Each confirmed lesson becomes a glossary entry, a rule or an automatic check before your next batch.
The sample segment
Your order {order_id} ships within 2 business days.
Ihre Bestellung {order_id} wird innerhalb von 2 Werktagen versendet.
Quality gate: passed. Delivered.
What happened, step by step
- Client Step 1 Sends the file, the glossary and the style guide.
- Agent Step 1 Measures the file and finds what changed since the last batch: one new segment.
- Linguist Step 1 Project lead confirms the scope and the service level: AI + Edit + Review.
- Agent Step 2 Proposes “Bestellung” for “order”, with its source: your glossary.
- Linguist Step 2 Reviewer approves the term.
- Agent Step 3 Translates against your glossary, translation memory and rules, then runs automatic checks.
- Agent Step 4 Native-reader agent, seeing only the German, flags the word order as reading like a translation.
- Linguist Step 4 A native linguist post-edits the segment and fixes the word order.
- Agent Step 5 QA agents check accuracy, grammar, style and terminology, each blind to the others’ results.
- Linguist Step 5 A second linguist reviews every segment.
- Agent Step 6 Advocate and devil’s-advocate agents argue one style finding. The judge agent recommends keeping the edit.
- Linguist Step 6 The reviewer decides to keep it and records the reason.
- Agent Step 7 Quality gate: not passed. File held. Placeholder {order_id} is missing from the German, so the file does not ship.
- Linguist Back to step 4 The linguist restores {order_id}. Nothing else changes.
- Agent Step 7 A regression check re-reads the changed text.
- Agent Step 7 Quality gate: passed.
- Client Step 7 Receives the file, the gate result, the issue log and the quality report.
Every job runs steps 1–4 and 7. Steps 5 and 6 run at the higher service levels, as named in your quote. Step 5 runs at AI + Edit and AI + Edit + Review, and step 6 at AI + Edit + Review.
Put human depth where the risk is
An archived help article and a campaign page do not carry the same risk, so they should not get the same depth. You set the service level per content type, and the quote names it.
Compare service levelsNumbered squares show the cycle steps each level runs.
- AI + Check Accurate, consistent, and easy to understand A linguist checks every flagged segment, plus a sample. 1234567
- AI + EditDefault Reads as if it were written in the target language Full post-editing of every segment, plus a second linguist’s review of a sample. 1234567
- AI + Edit + Review For high-visibility or high-risk text: edited, then reviewed by a second linguist Full post-editing and a full second review of every segment, plus a final read of the delivered file. 1234567
Regulated and high-risk content runs at AI + Edit + Review or without AI, never at AI + Check.
No new tools for your team, and fewer repeat corrections
We work from your exports, or inside your translation management system (TMS), including Phrase, XTM, Smartling, Crowdin, and Lokalise. Your team keeps its own workflow. Files come back in your format, with tags and placeholders preserved and checked by the gate before they leave us.
- Phrase
- XTM
- Smartling
- Crowdin
- Lokalise
Your reviewers’ corrections carry forward into the next batch. Every edit your reviewer makes is compared with what we delivered. Each confirmed lesson becomes a glossary entry, a rule or an automatic check before your next batch.
Evidence you can show your stakeholders, with every delivery
You don’t have to read the target language to know what happened to your file. Every delivery includes the quality-gate result and an issue log. At AI + Edit, sampled quality reports follow the schedule agreed for your program and can cover several small releases; at AI + Edit + Review, each delivery gets a full report.
- Your files, in your format, with tags and placeholders preserved
- The quality-gate result for each delivered file
- An issue log of what was found and how it was settled
- Quality reports marked “Assessment by Locstars”: sampled at AI + Edit, on an agreed schedule, and full with every delivery at AI + Edit + Review
- Glossary changes and a query log at AI + Edit and AI + Edit + Review
- Your TM, updated, with a Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) file on request
AI translation services built for high-volume programs
Locstars has a dedicated team of native linguists for each language we offer.
High-volume programs are normal business for us. Send a single batch or a continuous stream of updates. For updates, we translate what changed since the last batch and recheck existing translations the change affects.
Each linguist is a native speaker of the target language and a subject specialist. The same team stays on your account, so the people who learned your terms and rules are the people who apply them.
Same-day delivery is possible for suitable volumes. We confirm timing in the quote.
- EnglishThe hub language
- العربيةArabic
- FrançaisFrench
- DeutschGerman
- Español de EspañaSpanish (Spain)
- Español latinoamericanoLatin American Spanish
- ItalianoItalian
- Português do BrasilBrazilian Portuguese
- 简体中文Simplified Chinese
- 日本語Japanese
- 한국어Korean
- TürkçeTurkish
Every language is offered to and from English, and each of the others can also be paired with Arabic, in both directions. Other language pairs on request. See every language pair.
Request a quoteYou decide where AI is used
We don’t use your content to train or tune our own AI tools, and when we use AI on it, we use only business AI services whose terms bar training on it. You decide how AI is used, content type by content type.
Read the full detail on the Data and AI use page.
- If some content should stay out of AI, tell us. It is then translated by native linguists without machine translation or generative AI, using your translation memory and glossary.
- We sign your NDA before work starts.
- We sign your data processing agreement (DPA), as we sign your NDA. If a clause doesn’t match how we work, we agree the change with you before work starts.
- We delete your files on request.
- You own your translation memory. We hand it over as a TMX file whenever you ask.
Judge the work on your own content first
Start small and judge the work on your own content, not on our claims. There are two ways in. Your quote confirms whether the work is a one-off project or part of an ongoing program.
Free check, if you already use AI or MT
Send up to 300 source words of AI or MT output you already have, in a listed language pair. We send back findings on that text. They are indicative, not a rating of your full content.
Sample on your file
Request a quote. If the fit is right, we work on a defined part of your own content at the service level we propose.
Pilot
We run real work in your TMS or files at the levels you chose, and your reviewers judge the result.
Monthly contract
For an ongoing program, the contract sets the service level for each content type, a volume band, and delivery windows.