ELAN, a provider of advanced localization and interpreting solutions, has been named “Tech of the Week” by Nimdzi Insights in recognition of ELAN AI Bridge, a model-agnostic product designed to integrate AI seamlessly into localization workflows in a way that respects existing systems.

ELAN AI Bridge enables organizations to deploy AI across their translation operations while maintaining full compatibility with major translation management systems (TMS), including memoQ, Phrase, XTM, and Trados Studio. The solution allows for leveraging large language models (LLMs) across domains, languages, and use cases, giving clients full control over performance, security, and customization.

The core innovation of ELAN AI Bridge lies in its ability to bypass traditional translation memory segmentation — a long-standing limitation in modern localization workflows. Instead of processing content segment by segment, the Bridge bundles segmented content into a single continuous text stream for the LLM to process. Once translated, the system accurately writes the output back into the original segments of the TMS of choice. This approach significantly enhances translation consistency and accuracy, as well as post-editing productivity. Recently, ELAN measured a 43% productivity increase for one of its key clients after deploying the Bridge.

ELAN AI Bridge also provides a suite of additional capabilities such as:

• Support for a range of AI-driven use cases, including LLM-based machine translation, automated post-editing, quality estimation, and LLM-driven QA.
• Deep customization through so-called context stores, leveraging style guides, terminology and other linguistic resources, as well as more advanced customization techniques.
• Fast and accurate bilingual terminology extraction, straight from jobs in the TMS, ensuring terminology consistency across languages and projects.
• Dedicated TMS endpoints, allowing precise configuration, workflow chaining, and seamless integration into existing localization pipelines.
• Model consultancy, helping clients select and optimize language models for specific content types and use cases.

The “Tech of the Week” recognition highlights ELAN’s contribution to advancing practical, production-ready AI adoption in localization, solving real workflow constraints and thus bridging the gap between generative AI and the realities of enterprise translation environments.

“ELAN AI Bridge embodies our vision of bringing AI, technology, and localization together. Beyond leveraging best-in-class language models, we take pride in knowing that we can enable AI in different workflow steps — from machine translation to quality assurance — integrate with different systems via a comprehensive API, as well as produce targeted results through a deep customization layer,” said Jourik Ciesielski, Chief Technology Officer at ELAN Languages.

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