Linguistic Assets

What powers your translations behind the scenes?

When you work with LanguageLine, your content doesn’t get translated in isolation. Every project draws on a robust foundation of linguistic assets, custom-built for your brand and optimised over time. These assets ensure that no matter how often you update your content, your tone, terminology and message remain clear and consistent.

From translation memories and glossaries to style guides and customised NMT, these tools streamline production, reduce costs and increase quality, especially across high-volume or high-compliance content.

Our linguistic asset framework

1. Translation memory (TM)

A TM is a dynamic database of your previously translated segments (sentences, phrases and headers). It recognises repetitions and matches, so you never pay twice to translate the same content.

Key benefits:

Faster turnaround on updates
Cost reduction through reuse
Increased consistency across projects
Maintains control over preferred phrasing
Secure and client-specific (never shared)

2. Translation glossaries

Glossaries are controlled lists of industry-specific or brand-approved terms. They ensure your key terms (like product names, technical terms or regulatory language) are always translated the same way.

Key benefits:

Protects terminology across translators and projects
Helps new linguists match tone and brand
Reduces back-and-forth in review cycles
Especially useful for legal, medical and technical clients

3. Style Guides

Style guides establish your tone, formatting and usage preferences so that all your content reads as if it came from one voice, no matter the language.

Style guides may include:

Voice/tone guidance
Formatting rules (dates, numbers, punctuation)
Local/regional compliance preferences
Regulatory or branding notes

Key benefits:

Harmonises voice across all markets
Simplifies QA and stakeholder review
Supports faster onboarding of linguists

4. Customised neural machine translation (NMT)

NMT engines trained on your brand, industry or document types provide faster, more reliable machine output. We fine-tune MT for domain-specific content so that it’s closer to being usable, right out of the gate.

How it works:

Train NMT on your TM and glossary data
Adjust for domain-specific language
Apply NMT in workflows with human review (MTPE)

Key benefits:

Increases MT quality for your use case
Reduces editing time and cost
Scalable for high-volume or always-on needs
Private and secure, so your content isn’t used for global training

Build a stronger translation programme, one asset at a time

Let us help you build or optimise your linguistic assets for better quality, faster delivery and scalable global communication.

The cornerstone of scalable, high-quality translation

What powers your translations behind the scenes?

Our linguistic asset framework

1. Translation memory (TM)

2. Translation glossaries

3. Style Guides

4. Customised neural machine translation (NMT)

Build a stronger translation programme, one asset at a time