Human Translation

As we had briefly discussed about types of translation methods that are available in the previous blog post, now let’s see an example on how to implement the human translation.

Step – 1: Configuration:
Before getting started with human translation, one should configure the translation method as human translation.
• Navigate to http://localhost:4502/aem/start.html
• Click on Tools > Cloud Services > Translation Cloud Services in the left side rail.
• Navigate to libs > Translation Integration > Default Configuration and click on Edit.

Select your Translation Method as Human Translation and click on “Save & Close” as shown in the below screenshot.

Step – 2: Creation of multi-language translation project:
Now, go to http://localhost:4502/sites.html and select any of the available language masters (let’s say http://localhost:4502/sites.html/content/we-retail-demo/language-masters/en and select any one the available pages under language master). Select References option as shown in the below screenshot.

Click on language copies (in the above screenshot, it can be seen in left side rail). You’ll be able to see the list of available language copies as shown in the below screenshot. Check language copies checkbox as shown in the below screenshot.

You can select all the pages which you’d like to update as shown in the above screenshot and click on “Update language copies” button as shown in the above screenshot and select type of project you’d like to create (for example, select Create Multi-Language Translation Project in case you’d like to create a multilingual project). Enter a title and click on update as shown in the below screenshot. Your translation project will be successfully created.


Hit http://localhost:4502/projects.html/content/projects to see the project that has just been created as shown in the below screenshot.

Step – 3: Translation jobs:
Once project is opened, various translation jobs will be visible as shown in the below screenshot.

In the above screenshot, you can see that translation method is Human Translation and there are various translation jobs available. Each job deals with different target language. If you’d like to edit project properties, click on three dots on the translation project as shown in the above screenshot.

Step – 4: Importing and exporting of content:
Go ahead and click on three dots on the translation job, to see translation job details as shown in the below screenshot.

The translation job details will be visible as below. It’ll display all the pages that are associated with the translation job.

As we already know that in human translation, the content is sent to the translation provider and is translated by professional translators. When complete, the translated content is returned and imported into AEM.

To send the content to translation provider, export the content of the page (for example, Test Page) by clicking on Export option as shown in one of the above screenshots. You will see a pop-up with download option. Click on “Download Exported File”. A zip folder named my_test_project_ar (projectName_targetLanguage.zip) will be downloaded.

Translation experts will unzip this zip folder and translate the content manually as shown in the below screenshot.

Step – 5: Translation preview:
Once translation is done, experts will zip this folder again and import back into AEM using Import option available on the translation job as shown in one of the above screenshots.

Now, click on the translation job (on the three dots to see job details) as described above. Select the page and click on “Preview in Sites”. You’ll see the translated page as shown below.

This is how human translation works. I hope it’s informative. Please feel free to comment if you’ve any questions or if you’d like to provide any feedback.