🌍Localisation

Our purpose

Adapting the project tools and material to be understood by a specific audience.

Who we are

We are a community of translators and linguists that localize the original English content into our languages.

🔨 English knowledge and deep understanding of our local language and culture are key for this work.

What’s success

Localize the project tools into our language, mainly the Common Voice site.

• The Common Voice site is 100% localized in my language.

How to join

Anyone can join this community. Join our discourse forums or our matrix chat and introduce yourself, jump into our localization tool and check the status of your language.

What we do

Localization

We use Mozilla’s localization tool, Pontoon, to translate the Common Voice strings. Please create an account and check your language on Common Voice Pontoon section.

ℹ️ Please read how to use pontoon before starting to use the tool, you might need to ask the Mozilla localization team for permissions to validate suggestions.

🔨 Skills required to help: English knowledge, strong knowledge of your language.

Roles

These are some roles you can take as part of this community.

• Localizer: Suggest new translations for the pending strings

• Reviewer: Check and validate existing suggestions and improve their quality.

• Mobilizer: Help people in the community to get started and keep contributing.

Channels

• Common Voice discourse category.

• Common Voice matrix chat room.

• Mozilla Localization matrix chat room.

• Common Voice project announcements.

💬 If your language already exists on Common Voice, make sure you check and join the local discourse and matrix room. If that’s not the case, please create a new topic on discourse asking for one to be created.