What's New in the LILT Platform

Check back here for updates, new features, and bug fixes that may affect the translation experience in LILT!

12 April 2024

Knowledge base update

We’ve updated several pages in our knowledge base. The updated knowledge base is now available, making it easier to find help with the LILT platform.

05 April 2024

LILT Translate

Advanced jobs page filters and sorts

Users can now filter the homepage by delivery dates, creation dates, and job statuses. In addition, users can sort the page based on due date, creation date, and job name. These new page management tools will enable teams to easily find the needed job.

14 March 2024

Linguist Stats Update

Linguist Stats will now include updates to payments for offline work in addition to online work!

Read more here: https://support.lilt.com/kb/linguist-stats

08 March 2024

LILT Platform

LILT Palantir FedStart Integration

We are excited to announce an integration with Palantir FedStart. This integration will allow linguists, analysts, language managers, and project managers working on GovCloud IL4/IL5 environments to utilize LILT software to efficiently translate material! Please reach out to your account executive for more details!

LILT Connect

LILT Connect Workflows

Introducing LILT Connect Workflows: a dynamic solution that empowers you to configure and tailor workflows to meet your specific enterprise requirements. Seamlessly integrate with the connectors you already use at LILT for enhanced efficiency and customization. We have expanded the number of connectors in Workflows by 10x, covering the vast majority of day to day connector needs. Effectively overseeing multiple localization projects within your organization and guaranteeing timely delivery can be a time-consuming endeavor. This powerful tool empowers you with unmatched speed and comprehensive control throughout the entirety of the localization process by enabling you to configure your own workflows to meet specific enterprise requirements. Now, you will be able to access that functionality in top CMS’ and TMS’ such as Contentful, Lokalise, Crowdin, Smartling, Google Drive, Github, and Braze.

16 February 2024

LILT Translate

Today, we are introducing exciting updates to the LILT Platform as a follow-up to our initial release on AI Day 4.

LLM Evaluations in AI Hub

Firstly, we are introducing LLM evaluations in AI Hub, aimed at helping customers understand which model providers they should be choosing for their respective translation workflows, depending on parameters such as privacy requirements, content type, fine-tuning capabilities, and more.

New OCR, ASR, and GenAI providers

We are also adding transcription and translation services for video content, so that customers can upload video files similarly to our existing image, PDF, and audio workflow support. Additionally, we now offer interoperability with several new providers for generative content, OCR, and ASR.

9 February 2024

LILT Translate

Plurals V2

LILT is excited to announce our second release of ICU and plurals support. With this release we will support all ICU formats including plurals, select, select-ordinals, date, time, and number. In addition we will support Android plurals and iOS plurals. These formats will automatically be processed by our backend system and displayed to linguists in an easy to use modal. With these improvements we should see increases in our quality and delivery timelines!

Linguist Homepage

The Linguist homepage is a completely redesigned homepage for linguists. The designs were optimized for simple navigation and project prioritization. On the Linguist Homepage, linguists can see due date, customer name, project stage, total segments, and completion percentage for each individual document. These documents can be organized into completion states, quickly filtered, and easily ordered. All these improvements enable linguists to quickly sort through their documents, find the most important job, and start translating!

19 January 2024

LILT Translate

We launched a new project-level setting to Include Exact Matches in the Customer Review sample. Previously, we only had an Organization Setting, where this can now be customized and set on a per-project basis in Project settings. The project-level setting will match the org setting by default, but can be modified. Changing the default setting for review sampling in the Organization Settings does not update the settings of existing projects. Read more about Review Sampling here.

12 January 2024

LILT Translate

We have added a feature to disable MT suggestions from CAT suggestions and the CAT sidebar. This can be controlled in the organization settings under “Translate settings”. Disabling MT is most commonly used for creating training data sets, where the goal is to have no bias from other machine translation tools.

22 December 2023

LILT Translate

New Language Models

LILT is happy to announce the following new language models:

• Kurdish to English

• Vietnamese to English

• Nepalese to English

These models expand LILT’s capability to delivery high quality low cost translations!

AI > Review Workflow

This workflow leverage’s LILT’s machine translation to offer suggestions and our CAT editor for linguist review. This is a capability that leverages both human and machine intelligence for translation.

New QA Checks

LILT has released three new automated checks in Batch QA and Full QA:

1. Unpaired symbols - This QA check will check for unpaired symbols in the target text, for example, an opening bracket ( without a closing bracket ).

2. Case matching - This QA check will check that the case in the source text matches the case in the target text and will point out any errors, i.e. a sentence starting with a lowercase letter or a word written in all caps.

3. Alphanumeric mismatches - This QA check will check that 'enclosed' alphanumeric characters (such as ③ ⑵ ⒋ ⒝ Ⓔ ⓭ ⓹) match in the source text and the translation. The enclosed characters are in the Unicode range of 0x2460 to 0x24FF.

LILT Connect

LILT is excited to announce a partnership between KalciumQT and LILT! KalciumQT is a terminology management software. With LILT’s new integration, linguists using LILT will have the opportunity to sync terminology between Kalcium and LILT. Allowing them to utilize the most up-to-date terminology across their systems.

15 December 2023

Overview

The LILT Platform release at AI Day 4 marks a transformative milestone, delivering an array of features and use cases designed to redefine your enterprise translation and multilingual content creation experience - focused on giving you, the user, more access than ever before. This release introduces groundbreaking capabilities focused on enterprise AI deployment and control features, including LLM orchestration, multimodal translation capabilities, and content generation prompt templates for teams and use cases.

LILT Homepage

Begin your multilingual journey with our brand new homepage, where we make it as easy as possible to get started using LILT’s various offerings. The redesign is centered around one question, “what do you want to do?”. Whether that’s translating an existing piece of content, creating something new, connecting systems to your workflows, or managing a series of functionalities, we now enable all of these use cases in a single, cohesive platform.

LILT Translate

The translate functionality is what most of LILT’s users are already familiar with, and we’re excited to introduce some brand new capabilities, primarily multi-modality and self-serve 3rd party MT integrations.

Expanded Translation Capabilities: Seamlessly translate all file types, including image, audio, PDF, and video, within the LILT platform. Address a wide range of media so whether you need to translate a PDF report, a picture of a text chart, an audio recording from a conference, or a video recording from a talk, you can now do it all in one place in LILT.

Choose your Translation Workflow: Instant and Verified Translation workflows supported for all file types.

Model Interoperability: Translate with LILT or your 3rd party translation model of choice.

Models include

• Google Cloud

• DeepL

• Amazon AWS

LILT Create

LILT Create is our multilingual content generation product that allows users to quickly create on-brand, locally relevant content in any language. Starting today, get started with your multilingual content generation quicker than ever before with Create Prompt Templates.

Content Generation Prompt Templates

With Prompt Templates, you can create multilingual content on pre-trained guided prompt templates for your specific use case.

• Predefined Content Creation: Leverage prompt templates for instant content generation in 100+ languages.

• Use Cases Across Teams: Address specific use cases across Marketing, Sales, Legal, HR, and Support. Three templates are available today, with many more coming in Q1 '24.

  

• Create Content with Your LLMs of Choice: Integrations with the following LLM providers

  • Amazon Titan-G1

  • OpenAI GPT3, GPT3.5, and GPT4

LILT Connect

Now that we’ve gone through some applications in the LILT platform, we’ll transition to where we give you access to your own control room, where you can manage your workflows, data, security, and models.

The first is LILT Connect which enables you to set up and manage your own automated connector workflows with your content systems. We’ve always supported a plethora of connectors, but what’s really exciting today is that you can configure and manage these connectors all on your own, with virtually no technical support.

Connect Workflows

LILT Connect integrates with over 40 Content Systems including CMS’ like Contentful, TMS’ like Crowdin and Smartling, Storage files like S3 and Google Drive, Repos like Github and Gitlab, and many more. Today, you can get started on creating your own connector workflow by just selecting one of these cards and deciding what system you want to integrate with.

After you’ve selected your connector, you can select your desired workflow from the following options: AI + Review, Verified Translate, Verified Translate + Review, Verified Translate + Review + Customer Review.

Finally, not only can you choose your own workflow, you can fully customize individual steps within your end-to-end connector configuration.

LILT Manage

LILT Manage is your Control Room, where you can manage your data and model inputs. Set up, own, and manage your data. Privacy is a critical part of LILT’s offering here, supporting government and on-prem customers, and this is something that’s critical to LILT’s platform offering as well.

Manage Data Sources & LILT Models

Additionally, you can manage your fine-tuned models as well. What this means is that you may have a foundation model like AWS supporting your translation needs, and combine that with your LILT memories, and finally add LILT’s contextual AI for your English-French translations. All of that will be managed  in your Model Hub. Thus, you can maintain brand preferences, guidelines, memories, and more for consistent quality with LILT and 3rd party providers.

Large Language Models & Interoperability

Enable and configure third-party Language Model Managers (LLMs) integrations within LILT for diverse business use cases.

8 December 2023

LILT Connect

Lokalise

We’ve made some exciting updates to the LILT <> Lokalise connector! These changes primarily focus on the ability to provide additional context for linguists:

• Ability to extract “Key names” from Lokalise

• Ability to add Key name to metadata for respective segment in LILT

• Ability to add Character Limit to metadata for respective segment

All of these changes are focused on improving quality! To learn more about our Lokalise connector click here.

Smartling

We're excited to introduce significant enhancements to the LILT <> Smartling connector, optimizing translation management for a more seamless experience. Effortlessly synchronize both term bases and segments from Smartling to LILT. This update includes:

• Termbase Sync Enhancements

  • Prevent duplicate termbase entries, ensuring a streamlined workflow.

  • Update targets without creating new entries when the source remains constant.

• Data Source Sync Enhancements

  • Ensure a cleaner process by preventing duplicates during segment synchronization.

  • Avoid duplicate records when both source and target match an existing LILT segment entry, enhancing overall data integrity.

In addition to Termbase and Data source enhancements, we’re excited to share that LILT is now an official MT partner and provider on the Smartling TMS, joining other providers such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

When utilizing LILT via Smartling, please note that:

• If using LILT for your verification step, the models will continue to be adapted through the customer’s human verification workflow.

• If using LILT for your instant translation workflow, translations will not be saved to data sources, so no need to push data back for LILT model adaption.

Learn more about our connectors here.

LILT Translate

Expanded ICU Support

LILT now supports fully automated filters for ICU select formats. This expanded automation will help us support product strings or support documentation content types. To learn more about LILT’s ICU support click here.

1 December 2023

LILT Create

Homepage and new content type

We’re excited to share LILT Create’s new homepage, where regional teams can generate enterprise-grade multilingual content for Marketing and Training Course content types (with additional content types coming soon!). Combining style guides and existing LILT data sources with real-time user prompts, LILT Create can generate brand-aligned content in a matter of seconds for users to refine and finalize. Learn more about how to use LILT Create here. 

LILT Translate

Exact matches in review sampling

The org and project settings for exact matches in review sampling are both now “Include exact matches: When running review sampling, include exact matches from the sample.” Existing project settings were updated so they have the same settings as before we made the update. Learn more about review sampling here. 

Linguist stats 

The linguist stats page is now turned on for all linguists, providing information on payment data and hours worked, broken down by project and document. Learn more about Linguist stats here. 

New Error Categories, Sub-Categories, and Severities

LILT has launched updates to our error logging to reflect Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) standards. When logging an error, linguists will now apply a category, sub-category, severity, and comment. There is no change to permissions or visibility - existing permissions for translators, reviewers, and customer reviewers remain. Learn more about error flagging in Review mode here. 

Connectors

LILT Create in Contentful

LILT Create is now integrated into the Contentful app ecosystem, which allows creation of on-brand, AI-generated multilingual content directly within Contentful's content models, saving time and streamlining workflows. Because LILT specializes in brand-specific translation, users can generate content across any number of languages with the same prompt - making content ready to publish globally in partnership with regional marketing teams significantly faster than possible through traditional translation workflows. Learn more about LILT Create in Contentful here.

Shopify

The LILT <> Shopify Connector can help expand your store accessibility to international markets by bridging language barriers with LILT’s translation services. With this connector, you can:

• Translate all of your site’s content, including product descriptions, checkout pages, and customer service messages.

• Choose from 60+ languages to cater to your target audience’s needs.

• Preview translations for accuracy and brand suitability before publishing.

Learn more about our LILT <> Shopify Connector and our packaged-based pricing model here.

GitHub

We’ve made a number of improvements to our LILT <> GitHub Connector:

• LILT’s GitHub Connector labels PRs for clear tracking of file status in your translation workflow.

• We now automatically excludes unchanged files, with an optional manual inclusion.

Learn more about our LILT <> GitHub Connector here.

19 October 2023

LILT Translate

New QA Check

LILT has released a Terminology Verification QA check in Batch QA and full QA, which validates if terms in the source text have been translated correctly in the target text according to customers' glossaries/termbases.

Concordance Search Improvements

Public data has been removed from Concordance Search and the CAT editor sidebar. It now only displays TM and partial matches.

Tag UX Improvements

We’ve implemented a visual distinction between the opening tag of a pair and a solo self-closing tag. Solo tags are rectangular.

Connectors

New LILT Connectors

Magento - The LILT <> Magento Connector can help you expand your store accessibility to international markets by bridging language barriers with LILT’s translation services, and is now available in the Adobe Commerce Store. Learn more about the LILT <> Magento Connector here.

Braze - The LILT <> Braze Connector is now available upon request. Please contact your Account Executive for more information. 

Sitecore - The LILT <> Sitecore Connector is now available upon request. Please contact your Account Executive for more information.

Connector Improvements

Contentful

We’ve made a number of improvements to our LILT <> Contentful connector:

• We’ve made it easier to work with nested (or “child”) entries, where you can see all the selected projects prior to sending for localization and add any missing nested projects by selecting them from their content page.

• We’ve now made it so you can edit the content type for each project prior to “Sending for localization”. 

Shopify

The LILT <> Shopify Connector is now available on the Shopify Marketplace! Learn more about our pricing and packages here.

19 September 2023

At LILT’s third AI Day, we announced our latest innovations, including third-party large language model integration in the Contextual AI Engine, self-serve model building and training, and advanced program analytics. As leading enterprises rush to implement a global AI and LLM strategy, LILT’s Contextual AI Platform offers a quick and scalable path to achieving extraordinary ROI from AI.

Enterprise Portal with Advanced Analytics

We're excited to present LILT’s Enterprise Portal - a home base for localization teams to quickly understand program-level insights of your work with LILT, view status updates for projects, and build your AI translation strategy.

When you log into LILT’s platform, you will see the Program Insights dashboard that provides in-depth insights into your operations. This user-friendly tool offers customizable visualizations of vital metrics and strategic insights, empowering you to make key decisions and optimize your Localization/AI strategy, quality, and impact.

You’ll also have access to a self-service job intake portal to submit content for Verified or Instant Translation, and a detailed view of all active and delivered jobs that have run through LILT’s Contextual AI platform.

3rd party support for the Contextual AI Engine

LILT’s newest foundation model integration enables customers to harness Amazon Translate, DeepL, and Google Translate models right within the LILT Platform. This third-party LLM support pairs enterprise LLM preferences with LILT’s proven production processes, linguists, and Translate tool - providing the highest quality Instant Translation for your use case.

Use the LILT platform to configure your existing LLM to access it via LILT, including supported capabilities for fine-tuning and terminology support connected to LILT’s Data Sources.

Model Builder

Once configured, 3rd party LLMs will be available through LILT Model Builder, a new management feature within the platform’s orchestration layer. Model Builder enables fine-tuning of third-party LLMs to be used in the LILT Contextual AI Engine. The LILT Platform has historically enabled model fine-tuning for LILT’s proprietary LLMs, with a continuous training cycle that feeds training data to models in real time as human translators and verifiers perform work in the platform. With Model Builder, LILT customers can now apply that same quality-verified training data to fine-tuning of third-party LLMs. You can fine-tune your models in just a click with LILT’s model building and training interface, optimizing model quality on the cadence of days or weeks instead of months or years.

31 August 2023

LILT Translate

New QA Checks

LILT has released 6 new types of automated checks in the Batch QA feature:

1. Untranslated segments

2. Target text identical to source

3. Repeated words in the target

4. Target x% longer than source

5. Target x% shorter than source

6. Tag order mismatch between source and target

Batch QA is also now available in the Customer Review stage in addition to Translation and Review stages of the workflow.

Tag UX Improvements

LILT’s CAT editor now supports visually expanding all tags in the active document to display tag content. Linguists use this tool for easier tag placement and, ultimately, better translation quality.

Visual indicators for Termbase mismatches

To support high-quality, on-brand translation, LILT’s CAT editor now goes a step further to highlight segment words with green and red visual indicators for termbase matches and mismatches, respectively.

Connectors

Figma Connector Improvements

The LILT <> Figma Connector has some fresh updates! We’ve visually redesigned the UI of the connector, and included a number of functional improvements.

We’ve made it easier to multi-select pages for translation, and also support selection of multiple target languages for the same selection/order. Target pages will be automatically created for all new languages selected, making the translation process for design files faster than ever before.

Learn more about the LILT <> Figma Connector here.

Phrase TMS Connector Improvements

We’ve made a number of improvements to our LILT <> Phrase Connector.

1. Updating all the relevant intermediary workflow steps’ statuses in Phrase with their respective progress

2. Mapping distinct domain Data Sources based on the Content Type indicated in the Project Name

3. Transferring segment statuses set in Phrase TMS to LILT’s CAT Editor for linguists to reference

Github Connector Improvements

LILT’s GitHub Connector now controls for which files are excluded from translation jobs. It will only select files changed from the specified PR unless there is a specific parameter to manually include it. Additionally, the connector now adds a label to the PR when it exports the source files to LILT to ensure there’s clarity of where files stand in the translation workflow.

Other Updates

Navigation changes

You can now find the “Jobs” page as “Verified” under the “Contextual AI” tab in the navigation.

Q2 2023

The LILT team has been developing new and exciting features over the past quarter. We’re eager to announce…

LILT Create

In June 2023, LILT announced the launch of LILT Create, a multilingual writing tool. LILT Create enables regional teams to quickly and directly create brand-aligned, enterprise grade content in any language.

Combining historical preferences with real-time user prompts, LILT Create generates formatted content in a matter of seconds for users to refine and finalize. With Create, regional teams can produce content that’s tailored not only to company but also to locale.

Read our press release and blog post about the LILT Create launch! And learn more about how to use the LILT Create product here.

Plurals

Plurals are a mechanism of language that allows a speaker or writer to differentiate types of nouns or phrases. In English we have two plural forms singular and plural. However, English forms are just the beginning, in Arabic there are six different forms. In Q2 2023, LILT released features for automated support for the ICU plurals syntax. Users can upload files with the ICU syntax, easily translate, and export with correct formatting. This can be used for website pages that personalize the language based on dynamic values (e.g. 1 computer vs 2 computers). LILT’s Verified Translation workflow enables linguists to quickly view and update all translations needed to support this type of use case.

Learn more about LILT’s support of Plurals here.

Connectors

Trados Enterprise

LILT has released a new connector integration for Trados Enterprise TMS, enabling users to work where their content lives, and send Instant and Verified Translation jobs to LILT. In addition to triggering translation work, the integration includes robust sync features for translation memory and termbase data to transfer to and from LILT Data Sources and align to specified domains.

Learn more about the LILT <> Trados Enterprise Connector here.

Bitbucket

Your team can now streamline localization by sending content for translation and receiving localized content from inside Bitbucket. Avoid manual steps and the inconvenience of transferring content back and forth between platforms by translating directly in your preferred code hosting platform.

Learn more about the LILT <> Bitbucket Connector here.

Crowdin → Data Source Sync

Our Crowdin connector now supports a Data Source sync process that ensure that all of the latest translation memory entries in your TMS are sent to LILT to optimize leverage, translation quality and consistency.

Learn more about the LILT <> Crowdin Connector here.

Contentful → Nested Entry Support

LILT now supports the automatic inclusion of nested entries within the selection in the Contentful connector. This means fewer clicks to order the translation jobs needed!

Learn more about the LILT <> Contentful Connector here.

Instant Translation Available in Connectors

LILT customers have loved the versatility of our Dual Method Connectors, which allow content creators to send content for Verified or Instant Translation, depending on the project needs. 

All LILT Connectors are now capable of supporting both Instant and Verified Translation. Whether you need translated content in minutes or quality-guaranteed content in hours, LILT Connectors can support your varied translation needs.

Q1 2023

We're excited to announce the newest features and improvements to the LILT Platform in this quarter!

Visual Redesign

We've overhauled the interface to be sleek, modern, and optimized for accessing key areas of the platform. Here’s what you can find under each tab.

Jobs: A nested list of jobs, projects, and documents. Context-specific actions and sub-tabs are on the main pane of the screen with secondary navigation along the top, and action buttons in the top right.

Data: Memories and Termbases.

Contextual AI: Your system’s Contextual AI models that power your LILT translation behind the scenes, per language-pair, with links to the associated translation memory. If you have account permissions to view Instant Translate, it is also listed. We’ve also released a feature to train new models. Reach out to your LILT account team to learn more!

Observability: Reports depending on your role permissions. Linguists can find the Linguist Stats report here; others can find program-level insights.

Organization: Admins and users with the necessary role permissions can manage settings, users, and role permissions under this tab.

Connect: Available LILT connectors, and your organization's API key for use in integrations.

Other Navigation: Found at the bottom of the page. Click your avatar to change profile settings and logout. Access LILT’s Knowledge Base through the icon, and see inbox notifications.

New and Improved Connectors

Phrase TMS (formerly Memsource): LILT’s new Phrase TMS (formerly Memsource) connector enables transfer of content directly from the Phrase interface to LILT for translation. The connector integrates status updates for tracking directly within Phrase, so requesters can maintain their entire workflow in their TMS of choice.

Salesforce Email Templates: Within Salesforce Service Cloud, customer support agents can use email templates to provide ‘canned responses’ to common questions. LILT has a new connector that connects Salesforce and the LILT platform to support sending and receiving this content for translation in LILT.

Termweb: LILT’s new Termweb connector enables a centralized termbase (in Termweb) to be transferred to LILT at a regular cadence. This helps LILT leverage the latest terms through its Contextual AI models.

Azure Blob: We’ve released a new connector to automatically push and pull content between Azure Blob and LILT. This creates efficiencies by providing seamless localization without transferring content out of your file-storage solution of choice.

Jira integration enhancements: We’ve made improvements to our Jira integration to support project-level status tracking as well as additional transfer of metadata, such as inclusion of language-locale codes, requester names, and due dates.

Improvements to Existing Features

We've also made several improvements to existing features in the LILT Platform based on user feedback. Here are some of the highlights:

• Translation memory (TM) deduplication, which automatically identifies and removes duplicate records during import and export of .TMX files. This helps you keep assets clean and accurate, and saves you time by eliminating the need for manual deduplication.

• Full document rejection during review without the need complete error annotations across all segments. To learn more, reach out to your LILT account team.

• Robust CAT editor capabilities for the Customer Review step of workflows, including Undo, Find & Replace, and Accept All Actions.

• The option to disable whitespace penalties during TM leverage using BatchMT. This helps increase leverage and ensure high-quality translation with LILT’s Contextual AI.

We always appreciate your feedback and suggestions for continued improvement of the product. Thank you for working with the LILT team and our platform!