Using CotranslatorAI has allowed me to reduce my working time, as I can finish my translations faster. It is a very useful tool and it´s SO easy to use just by pressing a key combination! Definitely worth trying!
CotranslatorAI at a Glance
Is CotranslatorAI a CAT tool? If not, what is it?
No, it is not a CAT tool. CotranslatorAI is an AI-powered Windows application developed by language professionals for language professionals. It works in tandem with and enhances all of your workflows, both inside and outside your CAT tools.
What makes CotranslatorAI different from a CAT tool?
With an interface engineered for content transformation, unrestricted access to the latest AI models, a prompt library that supports ultra-sophisticated prompting, keyboard shortcuts to mobilize those prompts on demand throughout your work environment, and industry-standard data privacy, CotranslatorAI fills in the gaps and goes beyond the functionality of the AI in your CAT tools and other applications.
What will CotranslatorAI do for me as a language professional?
CotranslatorAI will enhance your efficiency from the start by providing ready-to-use prompts for some of your everyday tasks. As you become more familiar with the tool and prompting, you’ll discover new ways to integrate AI into your daily processes using custom prompts. By saving and leveraging your prompts in the CotranslatorAI prompt library, some with custom keyboard shortcuts and others that you have favorited, you’ll see a steady increase in productivity. These improvements will be on top of the benefits you’re already getting from upgrades to your CAT tools and other software. Moreover, CotranslatorAI is designed to evolve with technological advancements, ensuring you stay at the forefront of developments.
How much does CotranslatorAI cost?
We offer three editions. CotranslatorAI Starter is free, and CotranslatorAI Intermediate and CotranslatorAI Advanced are purchased on an annual subscription basis.
Do I pay for data use?
We do not charge you for usage; but you do have to pay OpenAI for the data you process. In the process of installing CotranslatorAI, we will provide you with instructions on setting up your account with OpenAI.
OpenAI? Who's that?
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT and the GPT series of AI models, is the undisputed leader in generative AI. Currently, CotranslatorAI links to OpenAI’s GPT models, such as the cutting-edge GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o, for all operations.
What happens with my data?
CotranslatorAI is a small application installed on your Windows computer; it is not cloud based and we do not have access to your data at any time. All data is exchanged directly with OpenAI’s AI models through industry-standard HTTPS encryption. OpenAI guarantees that your data isn’t used for model training, nor is it shared. It is also deleted promptly from the OpenAI servers. For futher details, please refer to OpenAI’s Enterprise Privacy Policy, which covers data privacy through the API as used by CotranslatorAI.
Is CotranslatorAI hard to learn?
The basic functions are simple; you can learn them with our short series of Beginner’s Guide emails. But CotranslatorAI is powerful, and there is a learning curve if you want to go deep, as well as for becoming a skilled prompt engineer. It will also take time to build and become proficient at using your prompt library using our Micros Iterative AI Frameworks.
We offer beginner, intermediate, and advanced training to help you efficiently integrate AI into your daily work as a language professional. We also sponsor AI4LanguageProfessionals, an online group for language professionals working with AI.
Why would I make such an effort? Why not just use the AI in my other tools?
Let’s be very clear: As language professionals, we will not get paid extra for the value others create for us; we will only prosper by earning our productivity gains. In other words, while we have no choice but to use the tools of our trade, we cannot expect any lasting upside as our tools get better with easy-to-use AI upgrades.
CotranslatorAI is different. It is a unique tool with which you can apply the Micro Iterative AI Frameworks to increase your efficiency, accuracy, quality, and creativity beyond what is possible using only your other applications. Because you will realize these gains through an ongoing, iterative process that leverages your tacit knowledge and embeds it into your prompts, you can achieve a sustainable, competitive advantage.
Thanks again for your work both on the app and in the seminars! This is the best piece of translation tech in a very long time!
With CotranslatorAI You Can:
1. Secure your data
Based on industry-standard encryption and data privacy, your data and your clients’ data remain secure and confidential through every step of the work process. This is a level of security the free AI tools and services can’t offer. Further, all prompts are transparently under your control, avoiding “jailbreak” scenarios under which other tools may be vulnerable.
2. Save money
Cutting-edge AI is not as expensive as you think. In CotranslatorAI, even our premium users are spending just $5-15/month (including both licensing AND data costs!). Stop overpaying for professional-grade AI assistants and MT plugins, and still do everything you need to do in your work.
3. Execute efficiently
Unlike other tools that focus on content creation and “chatting”, the CotranslatorAI interface is engineered for content transformation, with the translator in mind… and in charge! In addition, both built-in and custom keyboard shortcuts enable you to dramatically reduce keystrokes and mouse clicks for a smoother, faster workflow throughout the Windows environment. The tool even supports accelerator hooks to further automate work.
4. Maintain a professional workflow
Smart context and token management in CotranslatorAI forms the basis for reliable control of the AI output from beginning to end. This works in tandem with the Micro Iterative AI Frameworks on which CotranslatorAI was designed, ensuring consistency and predictability unavailable in non-optimized/non-transparent tools.
5. Squeeze the full power out of every prompt
Push the AI to the frontier of its capabilities and make it speak in your voice. With advanced prompt-level settings, text manipulation options, and a private library of prompts, you can capture your tacit knowledge and tailor prompts to your private workflows, optimized for everything you do and ready for further improvements.
6. Access your entire prompt library
Organize and quickly access your prompts in the CotranslatorAI prompt library, and summon them easily through keyboard shortcuts and other features. Cotranslator AI can even serve as a one-stop repository of your entire prompt collection, for use in other AI tools as well.
7. Enjoy unlimited AI model access
CotranslatorAI supports the latest OpenAI GPT models for cutting-edge performance in all your projects. Thanks to priority access through CotranslatorAI to the AI servers, you get faster response times and never have to deal with “token throttling” under a fixed per-month rate system.
8. Work with the AI in any language
The latest AI models are “language agnostic.” Input prompts in one language, get AI responses in another language, and even process content in yet other languages—all with ease and clarity. There are truly no language limitations in CotranslatorAI.
9. Take your prompting to a new level
Prompting in CotranslatorAI is limited only by your imagination and the bounds of the AI’s capabilities. Further, the right techniques make all the difference. Learn the Micro Iterative AI Frameworks through our training and then implement them in your work, so that you are always operating at the edge of what’s possible in your core professional tasks.
10. Keep a record of your work in the AI
Maintain an audit trail by saving your AI dialogue history. Use this history to prove and check your workflow and to improve and train existing and future custom prompts, or to return to prior AI project interactions when a project restarts later.
11. Multi-interact with the AI simultaneously
You continuously move between tasks in your work, and your AI tool should be able to follow you in this process. With CotranslatorAI Advanced, you can establish up to ten simultaneous channels into the AI models! Run an anchor prompt, do terminology research, and have the AI evaluate or edit previous translations (and more!) all at the same time.
12. Work with large prompt packs
The CotranslatorAI prompt library now supports access to massive collections of prompts on your local system. Gone are the days of navigating slowly through a browser to review prompts online. Our prompt pack product (available as a separate purchase) contains 50,000+ ready-to-use prompts covering a range of use cases in creative arts and content creation, personal development and lifestyle, social media and online platforms, and business and marketing strategies. We even provide a video teaching you how to transform them into millions more prompting possibilities.
13. Get the support you need to excel
We offer resources to integrate AI into your workflow, both free and paid. By mastering the Micro Iterative AI Frameworks, you optimize your use of the AI, enhancing your skills and efficiency. Elevate your productivity and remain competitive in the evolving translation industry.
14. Integrate with other tools
CotranslatorAI integrates smoothly with your existing translation tools, enhancing your workflow without disruption. It complements CAT tools, project management software, and other resources, maximizing efficiency and consistency in your translation work.
Loving CotranslatorAI! I used your prompt on client review yesterday with a client – new guy who speaks Spanish and thinks he’s a translator. He edited one of our translations and does so as a second generation speaker. The translator responded to the edits but I needed the client to understand in depth and used CotranslatorAI. I even added in the translator’s responses in the prompt: ‘Here is what our translator said:’ The AI was brilliant in response!
Roles, Workflows, and Use Cases
Leverage sophisticated prompting strategies, refining your toolkit to fit your workflow needs. The following is only a sampling of potential roles, workflows, and use cases for prompting in CotranslatorAI. Each can be further developed in unlimited ways, and using a variety of prompt structures, keyboard shortcuts, and shortcut actions, not to mention languages. You are only restricted by the limits of the AI models themselves.
Translator
With the right approaches, you can deliver exceptional translations across many language pairs at a level of productivity unavailable in other tools.
- Translate content between any two or more languages
- Refine translations with your own content or from publicly available content
- Intelligently incorporate fuzzy matches from both bilingual corpora and target-only segments
- Update translations to align with source revisions
- Provide fast summary translations
- Tackle long documents with the GAIT workflow, a sophisticated anchor-prompting methodology that controls context for consistency and precision
- Create custom prompts on a document-type, client-specific, and project-unit basis
Terminologist
Expedite your terminology work with prompts and techniques that match your work.
- Get context-appropriate definitions on the fly for terms and expressions
- Query client glossaries with AI-level flexibility
- Request translations, synonyms, antonyms, illustrative sentences, nuanced interpretations, and more on individual terms and longer expressions
- Extract terminology lists and create bilingual glossaries
Transcreator
Combine translation and original writing into a single workflow.
- Ideate your creative output with unlimited flexibility
- Train the AI to produce suggestions by referencing real-world authors and publications, or by simply adding training text to the prompt itself
- Leverage cutting-edge content creation strategies inside the CotranslatorAI interface
- Steer the AI’s output to speak in your voice through reinforcing, iterative approaches
Writer into one's native language
Work with an assistant that complements your skills, making you a better writer.
- Precisely adjust the tone, length, register, and style of your writing
- Maintain a consistent voice throughout your work
- Identify and remove vague expressions or ambiguous terms
- Enhance your lexical variety
- Revise content for simplicity and readability
Writer into one's non-native language
Never write awkwardly in a language that’s not your own.
- Leverage all of the use cases listed here for writing into your native language
- Check if your writing is idiomatic, and improve it if not
- Analyze errors and style of your writing, getting suggestions for improvement
- Check your writing for mistakes and inconsistencies before publishing
Editor/reviser
CotranslatorAI comes with dozens of sample prompts for essential revision tasks (both bilingual and monolingual revision). You can also create your own to suit virtually any scenario.
- Alter verb tenses
- Reorganize sentence structure and sequence
- Transform text case
- Toggle between dialects
- Apply distinctive punctuation rules
- Convert units of measurement
- Shift between passive and active voice
- Correct typographical errors
- Customize edits to other peculiarities of your working language
Project manager
Leverage the superpowers of AI in all the languages you work in, even languages you don’t know.
- Review a source text for potential translation pitfalls
- Correct formatting issues within texts of languages you don’t speak
- Get a second opinion on client feedback
- Revise translations in response to source text changes
- Ensure final quality before delivery with additional quality checks
- Align source and target texts
- Remove personally identifiable information from source texts
QA specialist
Go beyond the QA checks in your TMS/CAT tool with custom prompts.
- Uncover elusive errors that traditional QA tools overlook
- Detect and address mistranslations using an AI-powered back-translation process
- Balance perspectives on translation challenges
- Make last-minute adjustments to translations in languages you don’t know
Technician
Get assistance in tasks that are ancillary to your linguistic roles.
- Generate or get explanations of regular expressions for use in other applications
- Clean up errors in text that has been OCR processed
- Use as a clipboard
- Write web search strings
- Get help with Windows applications
- …and a virtually unlimited number of other applications
Communicator
Communicate clearly, efficiently, and effectively with clients, suppliers, colleagues, and more on a daily basis.
- Write better in your non-native languages
- Generate personalized emails based on templates and key details
- Craft recurring messages with a fresh twist each time
- Summarize and clarify project instructions
Language learner
Write your own prompts to study exactly what you want to learn, in the way you want to learn.
- Get structured language lessons in a specific study topic
- Dialogue with the AI to enhance conversational skills
- Get personalized feedback and instructions on content you have written in another language
I’ve used ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot (and all their previous iterations) for tasks related to translation and multi-language editing. They all have limitations due to hallucinations, inability to follow instructions, and wasted time re-entering prompts. CotranslatorAI gets the job done faster and better at minimal cost.
