Rapid eLearning Translations by CommLab India

The Challenge: Translate 48 existing eLearning modules into LA Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic (with the ‘right to left’ script); and publish them in Articulate Studio with AI voice narration.

CommLab India’s Solution: Rapid eLearning translation with the help of:

Our pool of qualified native translators
Advanced memory tools for translating, editing, and proofreading
Stringent reviews by lead translators and language experts

The Result: The accurate translations enabled the client to deliver consistent training to their global workforce!

Our client is a global leader in energy services with a workforce of more than 17000 employees worldwide. They have operations in 75 countries in more than 350 locations strategically positioned to service their customers across the globe. Their revenues totaled $3.65 billion in 2021.

The company delivers innovative energy services that integrate proven technologies with advanced digitalization to create sustainable offerings for maximum value and return on investment. With their mission of ‘producing energy for today and tomorrow’, they strive to drive maximum value, streamline operations, and enhance safety. Their strategic solutions help increase efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility of any energy operation. In partnership with their customers, they are committed to producing environmentally and economically sustainable innovative energy solutions with safety, quality, and integrity.

The client first came to know about CommLab India through our inbound marketing efforts (blogs, webinars, etc.). They approached us initially in 2020 with a project worth $11080 for the conversion of their legacy Flash courses to HTML5. They were very satisfied with the results, especially our quality and speed of development. We have partnered with them on around 25 projects till date, that included Flash to HTML5 conversions and several development projects where we republished their existing courses developed in different authoring tools into Articulate Studio 360.

They have their own in-house team for designing end-to-end eLearning projects. So, we were only involved in the development part of projects, where our expertise in most of the popular eLearning authoring tools including Articulate, Lectora, Captivate, iSpring, and dominKnow made us an automatic choice for course development.

We are on the client’s list of approved vendors and our present project is for translations.

Through rapid eLearning translations, of course!

The client’s requirement was to translate 48 of their existing eLearning modules into 4 languages – Arabic, LA Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian, with Arabic and LA Spanish to be done as a priority.

The client would deliver the 48 courses in 5 batches. CommLab India needed to translate the English content and submit the Alpha version directly without proofreading. The client also requested the use of AI voice narration (Microsoft speech studio) for the translated modules.

Though the existing courses could be translated into Portuguese and Spanish quite rapidly, it was not so easy when it came to translating courses into Arabic. Since the orientation of Arabic script is from right to left, developing Arabic courses in Articulate Studio is quite complicated. But we could achieve good quality of translation/development with few iterations by following a systematic process. Another challenge was recording the AI audio-narration in Arabic without pronunciation errors.

On the whole, the team found the project to be quite tricky. But we could achieve the desired quality and complete the project within 2 months with the help of our immensely talented and experienced production team.