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Translation that keeps the scholarship intact — the academic register, the citations, the precision — across seven languages, with you as the final editor rather than the proofreader of someone else's guesswork.
When to reach for it
A bilingual catalogue, a text for a partner institution abroad, an artist's statement that has to read as well in French as in English. General-purpose translation mangles exactly what matters here: the citation formatting, the theoretical vocabulary, the scholarly tone. This is built for texts where the register is part of the meaning.
Choose a source and a target language
Pick the material to translate and one of seven supported languages — English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, or Mandarin Chinese. One source, one target at a time, so each translation gets the model's full attention rather than being batch-processed into blandness.
Selecting a material and target language
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Add context so terms land right
Optionally point it at related materials from your project. A term that's ambiguous in isolation — a movement name, a contested concept, a title that's been translated a particular way before — resolves correctly when the model can see how you use it across the surrounding work. Context is how you get the translation your field would recognise, not a dictionary-literal one.
Adding context materials
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For a show with an established bilingual glossary, add the source that contains it — the translation will follow your house terminology instead of inventing its own.
Watch it translate, citations and all
The translation streams in as it's produced, so you're reading and thinking as it works rather than staring at a spinner. Citations keep their structure, the academic register carries across, and the argument's precision survives the language change — the things a generic translator quietly destroys are the things this one is built to protect.
A translation streaming in
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Review, approve, and keep it in your library
The result arrives as a draft awaiting your judgment — never auto-published. Read it as the bilingual expert you are, revise anything that isn't right, and approve. Once approved, the translation is indexed alongside the original, so it's searchable and reusable, not a loose file you'll lose track of.
Reviewing and approving a translation draft
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What it will — and won’t — do
It produces a scholarly-grade first translation that respects register, terminology, and citations — the hard 90% — and hands it to you to finish. It doesn't replace a human translator's cultural judgment on a text where nuance is everything, and it doesn't pretend to. It gets you to a reviewable draft in seconds; the final call, as ever, is yours.
Translating a text costs roughly 3,000 tokens — a few cents for a draft that would otherwise be a paid commission or an evening of your own time.
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Translate the meaning,
not just the words.
Upload a text and translate it across seven languages with the scholarship intact. Free to start.
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