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AI-assisted translation with human review

AI-Assisted Translation

The first draft is machine-made. Every decision after that is a translator's.

 

AI output reaches us in two ways. Either we produce the draft ourselves, or you bring a translation that already exists. The two call for different work:

  • AI-Assisted Translation
    We produce the AI draft ourselves in memoQ, Trados or an online translation platform, with the whole project or document in the AI’s view and your translation memory and glossary. The engine (DeepL, GPT or Claude) is chosen per language pair and content type, and a specialist translator post-edits every segment. This is the service described on this page.

  • Independent Review
    You already have a translation, produced by an AI tool, a machine translation engine or another supplier. We check it against the source and return a corrected file with a report of changes. Transfer into memoQ or Trados is optional.

AI draft post-edited by a specialist translator

 

▮AI-Assisted Translation or Independent Review?

Both start from AI output. The difference is who produced it, how carefully it was prepared, and what remains for your next project.
 
  AI-assisted translation Independent review
Best for Recurring content, product documentation and anything you will translate again A one-off project where an acceptable result at lower cost matters more than setting up for the future
You send Your source file Your source file and the AI translation
Who produces the AI draft We do You or another supplier, with an AI tool or a machine translation engine
Before the draft We read the full text, build the glossary and prompts, and test the engines to apply the one that performs best on your content Depends on how the AI was used: which model, which instructions, whether a glossary was applied. We ask, because it decides how much correction is needed
Working environment memoQ or Trados, always Your file as it is; transfer into memoQ, Trados optional or online translation platform, at extra cost
Control and consistency Highest: translation memory, glossary and QA checks across every segment Checked against the source; consistency is limited to what the draft already has
You receive Translated files with updated translation memory and glossary Corrected file and a report of changes
For the next project Translation memory and glossary ready: the next translation is faster and more consistent Starts again from the beginning, unless the transfer into memoQ or Trados was ordered

 

▮Two Workflows for AI-Assisted Translation

Additional quality steps can be added when required. In most projects we recommend one of two workflows:
  • AI Draft + Post-Editing (SmartEdit)
    Machine draft, followed by full post-editing by a qualified professional translator who checks every segment against the source, the terminology and your style requirements. It is also the workflow we use most often when the deadline is tight, where the content suits it.
  • AI Draft + Post-Editing + Revision + Final QA (SmartEdit Pro)
    Machine draft, full post-editing, revision by a second qualified linguist, and a final quality assurance check before release.

 


Planning to bring AI into your own translation work?
Before choosing a tool, decide which content AI can draft and which has to stay human. Our AI translation audit tests this on your own files, before you commit to a workflow.
→ How the audit works

 

▮Where the AI Draft Breaks in Turkish

AI draft quality is not the same across languages. English to German or English to French drafts arrive in reasonable shape. English to Turkish drafts arrive with recurring, predictable problems, and a reviewer who does not know what to look for will read past them.
 
The ones we correct most often:
  • Dropped subjects
    Turkish allows the subject to be omitted. AI drafts frequently omit it where the source sentence has a specific actor, and the instruction becomes ambiguous about who performs the action. In safety and maintenance content this is not a style issue.
  • Long source sentences left intact
    English technical writing chains relative clauses. Turkish is agglutinative and left-branching, so the same structure produces a sentence the reader has to reconstruct backwards. The draft is not wrong, it is unusable. It has to be split.
  • Terminology drift between TSE and EU sources 
  • Many technical terms have one form in Turkish standards and another in EU-derived documentation. The AI picks whichever is more frequent online. Which one is correct depends on where your document is going, and that is a decision, not a lookup.
  • Register collapse in the second person 
    Turkish marks formality. Drafts move between formal and informal address inside the same document, especially in UI strings and user manuals.
  • English compound nouns
    Three-word compounds get rendered word by word instead of resolved into the established Turkish term, if one exists.
We work in over 40 languages. We say this about Turkish specifically because it is where our own review data is deepest and where we can tell you in advance what the specialist will be doing.

▮How AI-Assisted Translation Works
  • Asset preparation. Glossary, translation memory, and reference material loaded before anything is generated.
  • AI draft. Generated inside memoQ or Trados through an API connection, not as a standalone tool, with your TM and glossary applied from the first segment.
  • Specialist review. Every segment read and corrected by a translator working in their subject area.
  • Automated QA. Tags, placeholders, numbers, units, and formatting checked.
  • Delivery. Files returned in your working format, with the TM and glossary updated for your next project.
▮We Assess Before We Recommend
Not every file suits an AI draft. Before we quote, we run a feasibility check on your actual content at no charge: we look at the source quality, the language pair, the terminology situation, and what the document is for.
 
If the answer is that AI drafting will not save you anything useful here, we say so and quote the fully human workflow instead. That conversation costs us a faster job and saves you a bad one.

What we quote most

  Steps SmartEdit SmartEdit Pro
  Feasibility check on your content ● ●
  Briefing and asset preparation ● ●
  AI draft inside memoQ or Trados, with your TM and glossary ● ●
  Full post-editing by a subject specialist ● ●
  Post-editor's own check ● ●
  Automated QA ● ●
  Independent revision, second specialist ●
  Final QA before release ●
  Domain review on request on request
  Proofreading before publication on request on request
  TM and glossary updated and returned ● ●

 

▮Questions We Hear Before Every Project

Is my content used to train AI models?
No. Drafts are generated through paid API connections whose terms exclude submitted content from model training. Your text never goes into public chat tools. If your contract or NDA does not allow any third-party AI processing, tell us and we will quote the fully human workflow instead.

Will you tell me when AI was used?
Yes. The workflow is named on the quote, the order confirmation and the delivery note. We do not deliver AI-drafted work as human translation.

How much cheaper is SmartEdit than human translation?
It depends on the file, so we quote after the feasibility check rather than from a fixed discount table. Well-structured technical content with a good translation memory saves the most. Poor source text, unsettled terminology or a difficult language pair can reduce the saving to nothing. In that case, we recommend human translation (HumanExpert).

Does SmartEdit conform to ISO 17100?
No. ISO 17100 covers human translation, and we do not claim conformity for machine-drafted text. Both workflows run within our quality management system, which operates to ISO 17100:2015. If your procurement requires ISO 17100 conformity, the right workflow is human translation with independent revision (HumanExpert Pro).

Can I choose or exclude an AI engine?
Yes. We normally select the engine per language pair and content type. If your company approves or excludes a specific provider, we work within that policy.

Can you post-edit AI translation we have already produced?
Yes, as a separate service: review of AI-translated content. We review a sample first, because output generated without your translation memory and glossary often needs more work than a new draft produced inside memoQ or Trados.

Does SmartEdit work for languages other than Turkish?
Yes, across our 40+ languages. Draft quality varies by language pair, so the feasibility check matters more for some pairs than others. 

We have no translation memory or glossary. Can we still use SmartEdit?
Yes. We extract the key terminology from your content and agree it with you before drafting starts. The first project needs more post-editing time than later ones. Each delivery adds to your translation memory and glossary for the next one.

Who owns the translation memory?
You do. The translation memory and glossary built on your projects are returned with each delivery, and you can take them to any other supplier.