Voyant Tools Localization Hub

An AI-driven, reproducible workflow for translating digital humanities tools for underrepresented languages.

Localize Voyant Tools for
underrepresented languages

We combine human expertise with AI translation and evaluation benchmarks to build trustworthy, provenance-aware localizations.

Join the team to start reviewing AI-generated translations.

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Translators

Contribute language expertise and translate UI strings into your language.

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Human-in-the-loop Reviewers

Validate AI drafts, enforce placeholder and tag safety, and improve consistency.

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Collaborators

Contribute datasets, glossaries, evaluation ideas, or model integrations (OpenAI / Ollama).

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Models & benchmarks

Draft generation

  • NLLB-200 for multilingual machine translation drafts.
  • OpenAI (optional) for alternative draft generation and comparison.
  • Ollama (optional) for local, pluggable LLM experimentation.

Quality checks

  • XLM-R sentence embeddings for semantic similarity and back-translation checks.
  • AfroLingu-MT benchmark dataset for evaluating quality on underrepresented language pairs.

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