Upcoming Platform-Wide Automatic Translation Experiment

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#67

Which languages? I know French is extremely bad, but my friend said that the Spanish ones were decent enough.

#68

Iā€™ve seen automatic Spanish translations and i can confirm that they made me lose braincells

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#69

Interesting, I guess machine translations fit certain games better than others. I hope Roblox wouldnt roll something out to popular games if it has obvious flaws.

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#70

AI is never accurate in any languages really, and thatā€™s due the lack of context and sometimes makes these translations sound wrong

You can also consider that in languages like Chinese, they use the same word for REALLY different contexts, so it will be pretty inaccurate for certain languages

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#71

As this is an experiment it would make a lot more sense for this to be opt-in, rather than opt-out. As others have stated machine translation errors are common, and players would have a better experience in the language the game was originally written in. I think this is a great option for developers to have added to our toolkit, but it should not as it is now, both an opt-out and requiring an extreme reason to do so.

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#73

You have to DM @RoxyBloxyy to opt out.

#75

I really want this update, just expecting it to donā€™t have the google translates since they dont make any sense.

This is a great improvement.

#76

Hmm, this will be pretty cool! I cant wait to see people communicate with each other!

#77

Wont be of any use if Translate() wont actually create strings for the translator portalā€¦ :confused:

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#78

I see this as a waste of resources. Thereā€™s a big community of people specialised in translating.

Another think is that we all know how automatic translations are not perfect. This is like putting roblox through google translate.

Off topic: You should actually improve the moderation since this is the Reason most people donā€™t bother with localising their games.

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#79

Could we benefit from the automatic translations if we already have translated into some languages (like Dutch) but not in primary Roblox languages (like Spanish)?

#80

Are core languages the languages without asterisk or does it include all languages?

#81

Still a little lost on this topicā€¦

Does this mean all content in our games will be translated? (Chats/GUI/etc)

#82

I am not sure if automated translations are the way to go.
Is it assured that we arenā€™t getting something which is just google translate but on roblox.
Would this be able to translate text to the perfect native language?
Bad translations are worse than no translations.
This could take away the jobs of translators who actually give quality native translations which is good for everyone.

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#83

Not reallyā€¦ Iā€™d much rather the text be confusing, but still understandable, than be in a language I donā€™t know.

#84

Itā€™s proven that games with Google translate are played less than those without a translations so I donā€™t think anyone would agree with you here.

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#85

source?

#86

Talk to people like @CrimsonForce?

#88

how does ā€˜poor moderationā€™ correlate to localization? lmao

#89

When you do translate a game to not official supported languages by roblox. The filter has a high chance of not allowing you to apply the translation, even if the translation has nothing bad in it. I know about this from previous experience i had with translating my games on other languages.

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