Learn how the Gengo API Ecosystem functions, its key components, and how Gengo is able to drive massively scalable translation. You can also listen to the presentation here: https://www.taus.net/events/translation-technology-showcase-webinar#october-2

2. TAUS Translation Technology
Showcase Webinar
Matthew Romaine
CTO & Co-Founder
October 2nd, 2013

3. Today you’ll learn about Gengo
and how we provide massive
translation scalability through
our open API ecosystem, which
follows standard principles and
is easy to integrate and work
with.

4. What does “massive translation
scalability” really mean?
Tools and processes to
handle any volume of
translation – scaling up
and down efficiently.
For customers – an
interface that enables
submitting content in
variable quantities, quickly.
For translators – tools that
enable completing quality
translations in large and
small volumes, quickly.
Web API

5. Supporting our scalability
Infrastructure
Units (words or
characters) translated
since launch.
Translators
Possible only with 9,000
(and growing) community
of qualified translators.
Languages
Support for many source
and target languages.
100,000,000 58

6. Getting it done
Customers Submit
Easy integration with
online documentation,
free Sandbox, popular
client libraries
Translators Translate
Regularly improving job
delegation and notification
processes
Through API
REST-based endpoints,
JSON-based payloads.

7. 2
“TOps” Team (Internal)
9,000
“Lay” Translators (Contractors)
75
Senior Translators (Contractors)
100,000+Candidate Translators
Our Translator “Pyramid”

8. 5 Steps to Quality
1. Testing
2. Training (PDFs)
3. Educating (glossary, etc.)
4. Reviewing (spot-check, etc.)
5. Feedback

11. API Ecosystem – enables …
• “plug-in” translation for any
platform
• scaling submissions
• flexible UI/UX
• flexible integration types
• working with other APIs
(TMs, speech-tech, MTs, …)

12. Key API Features
1. Submit any number of jobs simultaneously
Multiple jobs in one request
2. Receive callback notifications when job statuses change
Pending, reviewable, approved, etc.
3. Submit comments with jobs (and afterwards)
Give context, links, images to translators for each job
4. Receive notifications when communicating with translators
Be notified when translators leave questions or comments
5. Request revisions and give feedback
API-driven means every feature has an API

13. Example API Integrations
• User reviews
• Product descriptions
• Social Media
• Articles
• Guides
• Manuals
• FAQ’s
• Video Captions
from $0.05 / word
Fast (91% < 24h)
B2B2C, Video Captions
Let users decide what
they want translated.
B2B, UGC
Translating all product
descriptions.
B2B2C, UGC
Let users decide what
signs they want translated.

14. API Ecosystem Components
Online Documentation
Freely accessible, with
sample code and
examples.
Free Client Libraries
Open source, in popular
programming languages,
all on Github.
Simulation Environment
Free, open Sandbox for
testing integrations before
going to production.

15. Thank You
matt@gengo.com
@gengoit
http://github.com/gengo
http://developers.gengo.com
See you at
!