name: TransPerfect Vocabulary description: Controlled vocabulary covering TransPerfect's language services portfolio, the GlobalLink technology suite, translation workflow primitives, and the entities exposed by the GlobalLink Strings REST API. url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/transperfect/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/transperfect-vocabulary.yml created: '2026-05-23' modified: '2026-05-23' domains: - name: Language Services description: Human-led translation, interpretation, transcription, and review services delivered by TransPerfect's global linguist network. terms: - name: Translation description: Conversion of written source content into one or more target languages by human linguists, machine engines, or hybrid workflows. - name: Localization description: Adaptation of content, products, software, or campaigns to a target locale's linguistic, cultural, regulatory, and visual conventions. - name: Transcreation description: Creative adaptation of marketing or brand content that preserves intent, tone, and impact in a target locale rather than literal meaning. - name: Interpretation description: Real-time spoken conversion across languages, delivered on-site, over the phone, via video remote, or for live events. - name: Transcription description: Conversion of audio or video speech to written text, optionally combined with translation, captioning, or subtitling. - name: Dubbing description: Replacement of original-language voice tracks with target-language voice tracks in synchronized video production. - name: Subtitling description: On-screen target-language text rendering of source-language dialogue, often time-coded against video. - name: Linguistic Quality Assurance description: Structured review of translated assets against terminology, style, and locale-correctness criteria; commonly abbreviated LQA. - name: Multicultural Marketing description: Strategy and execution of campaigns targeting diaspora, bilingual, and multilingual audiences within a single market. - name: GlobalLink Suite description: TransPerfect's flagship technology platform composed of fifteen modular products spanning translation management, machine translation, app strings, CCMS, media, captioning, voice, real-time interpretation, and AI orchestration. terms: - name: GlobalLink TMS description: Enterprise translation management system providing centralized workflow automation, project visibility, and integration to source systems. - name: GlobalLink Web description: Website localization and proxy-based multilingual delivery layer. - name: GlobalLink Portal description: Translation project intake, approval, and tracking interface for requesters and reviewers. - name: GlobalLink Now description: Unified AI marketplace routing content across proprietary and third-party machine translation engines. - name: GlobalLink Strings description: REST-API-driven mobile and software string localization platform; formerly Applanga. - name: GlobalLink CCMS description: Component content management system for structured authoring, reuse, and translation; built on Vasont. - name: GlobalLink Media description: Creative media localization workflow for marketing assets, banners, and rich media. - name: GlobalLink Live description: Real-time interpretation and captioning for meetings, conferences, and live events. - name: GlobalLink TV description: Video streaming localization service covering subtitling, dubbing, and audio description. - name: GlobalLink Share description: Secure file exchange platform for translation source and target assets. - name: GlobalLink Scribe description: Transcription, captioning, and subtitling automation workflow. - name: GlobalLink Voice description: Voiceover and audio production workflow. - name: GlobalLink Translate and Review description: Side-by-side translation editor with reviewer markup workflow. - name: GlobalLink Write description: AI-assisted source content generation in localization-ready form. - name: Tower LLM description: Model-agnostic AI orchestration and routing layer underpinning GlobalLink Now and Write. - name: Translation Workflow description: Primitives that recur across translation management systems regardless of vendor. terms: - name: Project description: A scoped translation engagement with source content, target languages, deadlines, and assigned linguistic resources. - name: Job description: A discrete unit of work assigned to a linguist or engine within a project, scoped to one language pair and one asset. - name: Source Language description: The original language of content prior to translation. - name: Target Language description: The language into which source content is translated. - name: Language Pair description: An ordered pairing of source and target locales (for example, en-US to ja-JP). - name: Locale description: A combination of language and regional/cultural variant codified as a BCP-47 tag. - name: Translation Memory description: A database of previously translated segments reused to reduce cost, improve consistency, and accelerate delivery. - name: Terminology description: A managed glossary of preferred, prohibited, and locale-specific terms enforced across translations. - name: Style Guide description: A reference document codifying tone, register, formatting, and locale conventions for a client or brand. - name: Segment description: A translatable unit of text, typically a sentence or string, extracted from source content. - name: Match Rate description: A percentage indicating how closely a source segment matches an entry in translation memory. - name: GlobalLink Strings API description: Resources and operations exposed by the public REST API at api.globallinkstrings.com. terms: - name: Entry description: A single translatable string keyed by identifier, language, and optional tag and branch context. - name: Tag description: A label applied to entries, screenshots, and other resources to scope filters, releases, and partial pulls. - name: Screenshot description: An uploaded image associated with one or more entries providing translators with visual context. - name: Branch description: A parallel version of a project enabling feature-branch localization workflows. - name: Order description: A request for human translation of selected entries placed against the connected vendor network. - name: Webhook description: A subscriber endpoint invoked when translation events such as entry updates or order completion occur. - name: Personal Access Token description: A user-scoped credential transmitted via the X-Personal-Access-Token header for write operations. - name: API Token description: A project-scoped Bearer credential whose prefix before the exclamation mark identifies the target project. - name: AI and Data Services description: Capabilities provided through DataForce and TransPerfect's AI offerings. terms: - name: Training Data description: Human-curated text, audio, image, or video datasets used to train, fine-tune, or evaluate models. - name: Annotation description: Human labelling of data with categories, bounding boxes, transcripts, or relevance judgments. - name: Human-in-the-Loop description: Workflow in which human reviewers correct, validate, or rank machine outputs to improve downstream models. - name: Machine Translation description: Automated source-to-target language conversion produced by an MT engine without human intervention. - name: Post-Editing description: Human revision of machine translation output to meet publication quality standards. - name: Quality Estimation description: Automated scoring of translation output to predict adequacy and fluency without reference translations. - name: Industries Served description: Vertical practices in which TransPerfect maintains specialized teams and certified workflows. terms: - name: Life Sciences description: Regulatory, clinical trial, pharmacovigilance, and medical device language services. - name: Legal description: Litigation support, eDiscovery, and contract translation services, including Reef eDiscovery review. - name: Financial Services description: Translation of regulated banking, insurance, and capital markets content. - name: Gaming description: Game localization, LQA, voiceover, and culturalization for publishers and developers. - name: Media and Entertainment description: Studio dubbing, subtitling, captioning, and audio description services. - name: Retail and E-Commerce description: Product copy, SEO, and shopping experience localization at scale. - name: Government description: Public-sector translation, interpretation, and accessibility services.