All learning paths Learn See Try Make Put the language in from day one What this lesson is about A tool translated at the end reads like a translation. Write both languages while you build.
Your screens work in English, and Hindi is planned for the week after you launch. What do you change now?
A Finish the English screens, then translate everything in one go next week. B Put the Hindi on the buttons now and do the long lines later. C Write both languages while you build, not after it works.
Check my recall Why this matters Translation at the end reads like translation, because the English shaped the screen first. Numbers, dates and names are also where machine translation goes wrong most often.
Write your screens in both languages as you build, and check what machines break by hand.
Translation at the end reads like translation, because the English shaped the screen first. Numbers, dates and names are also where machine translation goes wrong most often.
Write both languages while you build, not after it works. Check numbers, dates and names by hand, because machines break them. Let one person who reads only the second language use it before you send it out. Task Your screens were written in English and translated to Hindi in one go last week.
Weak approach Checks that every Hindi line exists, sees no empty screen, and calls the second language done.
Stronger approach Reads every date, amount and name on the Hindi screens against the English ones. Finds one date reversed and one name spelled two ways. Then hands the phone to a Hindi-only reader.
Why the stronger approach works Present and correct are different tests. A reversed date is present on the screen and wrong in the shop. Only the second reader catches the rest.
Try a changed situation On the finished Hindi screens a date shows as 03/04 and a shopkeeper's name is spelled two ways. What is the rule here?
Make something yourself Put your interface text in both languages side by side in one table. Then have a native reader use the screens, and write down the five lines they corrected.
Lesson 3 of 7 on Small AI products for Bharat next Build a check set before you launch Part 1 ends in a work sample you can send
Read the primary or official source: AI4Bharat, IIT Madras