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Continuous Localization Products

Serge​

SERGE (String Extraction and Resource Generation Engine) is a translation automation tool built and open-sourced by Evernote specifically for continuous localization. It is free and unsupported. It was built in combination with its own TMS/CAT tool (Zing) but it also integrates with other TMS via plugins. It's theoretically possible to develop a plugin to integrate to translation vendors directly but none are provided. There is a Smartcat integration out-of-the-box and Smartcat integrates with few vendors, but selection is limited. Here's a CL example using Serge and Smartcat.

Integrations:

Lokalise​

Lokalise is a commercial TMS with several features that help implement a CL workflow. It also supports translation service integration with a few human and machine translation vendors. It also supports over-the-air localization through a proprietary SDK.

Integrations:

Pricing: paid hosted

Transifex​

Transifex is a commercial TMS with a few built-in integrations both on the content source and on the translation vendor side that can be leveraged for CL. It also supports file-less ingestion and delivery via CDN through a proprietary SDK.

Integrations:

Pricing: paid hosted

Locize​

Locize provides both a CLI tool and a web service API to integrate with a number of translation partners and agencies. Supported File Formats

Pricing is paid hosted based on usage.

Localize​

Localize is a content solution centered around automatic content detection and delivery. Their primary goal is to make it easy to ingest web content with a simple inclusion of a web snippet and deliver translations via their CDN. They also have a mobile solution with a more traditional file extraction and translation commit to source control. Translation can be done ad-hoc into their product or sent automatically to machine or human translation (Gengo and TextMaster). Pricing is paid hosted constrained by usage limits.

Memsource​

Memsource is a commercial TMS marketed as a CL solution. It offers a few built-in integrations and a web service API.

Integrations:

Pricing: paid hosted

Weblate​

Weblate is a TMS with a focus on continuous localization but no integration with translation vendors out of the box. Integration can be implemented via API's.

Integrations:

Pricing: free self-hosting and paid hosted & on-premise solutions

MotaWord​

MotaWord is a translation vendor with API and integrations that facilitate a continuous localization workflow.

Integrations:

Pricing: free (included in translation cost)

TO DO​

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Special mention​

Gengo​

Gengo was one of the early LSP that offered a web service API as one of the primary ways to submit content for translation. This may allow to build a CL solution but requires custom code to be written for integration.