IntroductionEnglish
Sprawk is a one-stop website for your translation needs.
- It is a large publicly-browsable translating dictionary, including 3,982,272 entries in English.
- It contains a powerful, interactive machine translation engine.
- It is a cost-effective, consistent and quick translation service with a team of freelance translators and editors located around the world ready to translate a wide range of domains.
Book and manage translation projects online 
- Choose from our selection of freelancers
- Get an instant fixed-price quote
- Monitor progress throughout the project lifecycle
- No minimum price, no special software is required
Consistent, fast and cost-effective translations
- Our technology prepares translation tasks before the translator receives them
- The terms, styles and policies you choose will be applied automatically
- Freelancers work over-night for faster turnaround times
- All online, no special software is required
Create, share and enforce custom terminologies
- Import existing terminologies, taxonomies and translation memories
- Access your data online or export a snapshot
- Group terminology by theme or organisational unit
- All online, no special software is required
Automatically discovers existing terminology
- Sprawk can automatically discover important terms from your website, PDF and Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint slides and emails
- The language of each sentence is detected automatically
- Potential translations are highlighted to make it easy to grow your terminology in multiple languages
Define custom style guides for each language you use.
- Base your style on the Economist, Oxford, Chicago Manual, Associated Press or just build one from scratch.
- Each language has a collection of style checking modules that can be configured or disabled completely
- These styles are used by freelancers in paid translation tasks and automatic machine translations
Audit your website
- Test your website for consistent style, spelling errors and much more
- Discover broken links, incorrect HTML usage and misconfigurations
- Receive daily reports of new problems and issues that have been fixed
- Configure or disable each checker individually depending on your needs
Customised machine translation
- Automatically and instantly translate text from over 20 languages
- Uses your terminology, styles and formatting preferences
- Gives superior results to generic translators like Babelfish
- All online, works from anywhere and no special software is required
Useful tools
- A Sprawk subscription includes tools like automatic language detection, dictionary definition lookup, term translations and example usages of idiomatic expressions in over 20 languages
- "Watch" terms, meanings and topics to quickly return to most referenced items
- Analyse pasted text or web pages for important terms or errors
Software integration
- Access your terminology, styles and policies from your own intranet or software
- You can even translate whole documents or websites using our secure APIs
- You can even use the APIs to book and monitor freelancer tasks
Secure and shareable
- All your data is secured to only authorised user accounts with individual usernames and passwords
- Read-only access can be granted to certain accounts
- Your whole office network can be granted automatic password-free read-only access
- Logins and all changes are recorded and viewable
Integrated search
- A single search interface displays matches from your custom terminology, uploaded documents or web pages as well as standard definitions and translations
- Search results as well as most pages on the site can be shared with colleagues by pasting the URL into instant messaging or e‑mail
