Translating business papers, with a person checking
This site explains how small businesses use AI tools to translate customer letters, forms, menus, price lists and contracts for reading. It sets machine drafts next to human translators and shows how to check the result. A person always makes the final call.
It's for owners and staff of small and medium businesses who need to read or send documents in a language they don't speak.
All the guides
How AI document translation works and where it goes wrongWhat an AI translation tool is actually doing with your text, and the kinds of mistakes it makes with business documents.
AI translation compared with a human translatorWhen a machine translation is good enough for a business document, and when a trained human translator needs to do the work.
What to check before sending a translated documentA practical way to review a machine translation when you don't speak the other language, from names and numbers to who reads it.
Back-translation: a simple way to spot errorsHow translating a translation back into your own language can show up errors, and what the test can't tell you.
Translating customer letters and emailsHow to read a customer's message in another language and reply in theirs, using a translation tool with a person checking.
What happens to your documents in a translation toolWhat to ask before pasting customer or business documents into a translation tool, with one maker's published data terms as an example.
Reading a contract in another language with AIHow AI translation can help you get the gist of a foreign-language contract, and when you need a qualified person instead.