# TranslationAI

> TranslationAI is a theory-driven AI translation service that uses 8 academic frameworks from translation studies to translate long documents like books, theses, and technical manuals with perfect terminology consistency.

## What It Does

TranslationAI is the first and only translation service that fuses 50+ years of scholarly translation frameworks with large language models. Users choose a translation strategy (not just a language pair), and the AI executes that strategy systematically across the entire document.

## How It Differs From ChatGPT / DeepL / Google Translate

Generic LLMs translate sentence-by-sentence with no overarching strategy. TranslationAI implements a complete translation theory pipeline:

1. **Register Analysis** — Analyzes the source text using Halliday's Register Theory (Field, Tenor, Mode) to understand context
2. **Framework Selection** — User selects from 8 academic frameworks (Skopos, Newmark, Venuti, Nord, House, Koller) to define the translation strategy
3. **Glossary Extraction** — AI extracts key terms, character names, and domain terminology, translating them according to the chosen framework
4. **Strategic Translation** — Each chunk is translated with the glossary enforced and the framework's principles applied consistently
5. **Consistency Enforcement** — Terminology remains identical across the entire document

## The 8 Academic Frameworks

- **Skopos Theory** (Vermeer) — Purpose-driven translation where the target text's function determines strategy
- **Newmark Semantic** — Preserves source language structure and meaning closely
- **Newmark Communicative** — Prioritizes natural target language expression
- **Venuti Foreignization** — Retains cultural foreignness to preserve the source culture
- **Venuti Domestication** — Adapts content to feel natural in the target culture
- **Nord Functional** — Balances source fidelity with target text functionality
- **House Quality Assessment** — Matches register dimensions between source and target
- **Koller Equivalence** — Pursues equivalence across denotative, connotative, and pragmatic dimensions

## Ideal Use Cases

- Books and novels (fiction and non-fiction)
- Academic theses and dissertations
- Technical manuals and documentation
- Research papers and journal articles
- Legal and business documents
- Any long document requiring terminology consistency

## How TranslationAI Compares to Other AI Translators

TranslationAI is the only AI translation tool using academic frameworks. Competitors like Bookzap.ai (fiction-focused, no frameworks), BookTranslate.ai (high quality but ~$390/book), X-doc.ai (enterprise pricing), BookTranslator.app (affordable but no consistency enforcement), and Taia.io (hybrid AI+human, slow and expensive) lack theory-driven glossary enforcement. TranslationAI delivers 80-90% publication-ready translations at $5-$25 per 100K words with perfect terminology consistency. Full comparison: https://translationai.app/compare

## Pricing

Three quality tiers based on AI model capability:
- **Budget** — Cost-effective for straightforward documents
- **Standard** — Balanced quality for most use cases
- **Premium** — Highest literary quality for creative and academic texts

Pay-as-you-go or monthly Pro subscription with included word credits.

## Key Pages

- Homepage: https://translationai.app/
- How It Works: https://translationai.app/workflow
- Translation Theories: https://translationai.app/theory
- Our Philosophy: https://translationai.app/philosophy
- Pricing: https://translationai.app/pricing
- FAQ: https://translationai.app/faq
- About: https://translationai.app/about
- Compare AI Translators: https://translationai.app/compare
- Terms of Service: https://translationai.app/terms
- Privacy Policy: https://translationai.app/privacy

## Extended Information

For more detailed information, see: https://translationai.app/llms-full.txt