GL Strings AI solutions

Table of Contents

• Create a Project context prompt
• Translate your strings with AI
  • Translate in bulk
  • Translate a single string
• Improve your translations with AI
  • Shorten or rephrase your translations in bulk
  • Shorten or rephrase a translated string
  • Character restriction considerations

You can use our AI features to translate a string or to shorten and rephrase existing translations. Additionally, you can apply these actions to a single string or multiple strings at once.

Create a Project context prompt

Before using any of our AI features, we recommend that you add a Project context prompt. The prompt should provide context and relevant information to help improve your translations.

1. Go to Project Settings > General
2. Under the AI Project Context section, enter a prompt.

Translate your strings with AI

Translate in bulk

1. Go to the Editor

2. Select the strings that you want to translate and click Actions > Apply AI > Translate with AI

3. In the Translate with AI dialog, define how these translations should be applied:

   • Draft or Target (not applicable for Branching Projects)
   • All selected keys or all translated or outdated keys
   • Use the Project context or a custom context as a prompt

Translate a single string

1. Go to the Editor
2. Click on a string that you want to translate and click AI
3. On the right-hand side panel, click Translate
4. Click Use Translation to populate the translation field with the suggested translation
5. Click Publish or Save as Draft to save the translation (in Branching Projects, you will only be able to publish it)

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Improve your translations with AI

Shorten or rephrase your translations in bulk

1. Go to the Editor

2. Select a translated string and click Actions > Apply AI > Improve translations with AI

3. In the Improve translations with AI dialog, define the scope:

   • Draft or Target (not applicable for Branching Projects)
   • Use the Project context or a custom context as a prompt

Shorten or rephrase a translated string

1. Go to the Editor
2. Click on a translated string and click AI
3. On the right-hand side panel, click Rephrase to obtain an alternative translation or Shorten to shorten it
4. Click Use Translation to populate the translation field with the suggested translation
5. Click Publish or Save as Draft to save the translation (in Branching Projects, you will only be able to publish it)

Character restriction considerations

When character restrictions are set for a key, GL Strings passes the maximum character length to the AI as instructions during the translation process. In most cases, the AI will produce a translation that fits within the supplied character limit.

However, the maximum character length is a best-effort constraint. It is not always a guaranteed limit for AI translations. In some cases, the AI may exceed the specified length, particularly:

• For languages that typically require more characters than the source language (such as German or Russian).
• When the character limit is too restrictive to preserve the original meaning or maintain a natural translation.

If a glossary term is included in the translation, glossary term enforcement takes precedence over character restrictions. In these cases, the AI may exceed the character limit to ensure the glossary terms are included in the translation.

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