Best Buy Canada translates more content faster, fuelling growth
How do you easily scale translation while cutting its cost? With a quality neural machine translation and post-editing service.
Industry:
Retail
Multinational consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Canada had an agreement with the Office qu茅b茅cois de la langue fran莽aise to publish translated web stock-keeping units (SKUs) 72 hours after the English versions were published. Within a few years, the volume of content to be translated had begun to strain capacity and budget.
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Challenges
- Pressure on human translation due to increasing volumes and shorter timelines聽
- Desire for reduced translation costs without sacrificing quality聽
- Need for better communication, forecasting and planning聽
- Scalability of translation teams
Solution
- 九色视频 Translation Services: neural machine translation (Language Weaver) with post-editing
Results
- 43% cost reduction thanks to machine translation聽
- Translation quality maintained with machine translation and post-editing workflow聽
- Better planning and fewer disruptions thanks to service level agreement, forecasting and regular team calls聽
- 48-hour turnaround for 20,000-25,000 translated words
