SDL Launches SLATE, the Intuitive Self-service, On-demand Translation Service Built for Business
June 22, 2020 at 03:00 am
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SDL announced the launch of SLATE - Smart Language Translation for the Enterprise – its new self-service platform that delivers a truly transformed experience in online translation. Professionals in any part of business can now, with a few clicks, directly access secure, world-class neural machine translation and optional expert human review, with transparent service levels, delivery times and simple pricing. Through the intuitive, self-service online platform, SLATE provides all parts of the business with access to SDL’s world-class and secure neural machine translation, covering dozens of languages including some of the world’s most difficult, like Chinese, Korean and Russian. For additional peace of mind, for example, if the user are publishing a document, SLATE enables to upgrade the experience easily to human review or revision delivered by SDL’s trusted network of over 17,000 expert translators – all within the same application. A monthly subscription based on typical document volumes means predictable spend and most content is processed instantly. The user know instantly how much it will cost and when content will be delivered. What is more, SLATE works with many different formats, from Microsoft Word documents and PDFs, to Adobe InDesign files, and even subtitles for videos. Built for business users across marketing, financial, legal and other regulated and security-conscious industries, SLATE’s key features include: One-click access to document translation and support for dozens of languages, Always on, always available, Automatically translates whilst preserving document formats, Ideal for regulated industries as it is secure by design and does not allow for content sharing or re-use between users or by the system. Benefits of SLATE: Accessibility and ease of use: Subscription model, registration in minutes, gives instant access to powerful professional translation, Built for business: Minimizes duplication of work, reduces time needed to produce content across multiple languages, increases efficiencies and lowers costs, Secure: Proven, GDPR-compliant, fully secure online environment with client content never exposed, re-used, or shared without explicit permission, Intelligent, learns and adapts: Specialized Linguistic AITMcontinues to learn, based on revisions and reviews, and improves and adapts to individual requirements over time, Built on a foundation of innovation: Capitalizes on SDL’s 20+ years of technology innovation and is backed by the innovative SDL Language Cloud foundation as well as award-winning SDL Machine Translation technology and Built on a foundation of expertise: Services are provided by SDL’s in-house translators, trained to deliver professional translation services to 90 of the world’s top 100 brands.
SDL plc specializes in language translation technology, services and content management. The Company operates through four segments: Language Services, which is engaged in the provision of a translation service for customer's multilingual content in multiple languages; Language Technology, which includes the sale of enterprise, desktop and statistical machine translation technologies together with associated consultancy and services; Global Content Technologies, which is content management and knowledge management technologies together with associated consultancy services, and Non-Core Businesses, which includes the sale of campaign management, social media monitoring and marketing analytic. The Company offers a range of services, including translation, post-editing, transcreation, interpretation, document localization, software localization, Website localization, multimedia localization and product testing.