Technical Translation Services That Keep Your Terminology Consistent
Translate user manuals, datasheets, and safety documentation across 204 languages. Formatting preserved in 65+ file formats, terminology locked by your glossary and translation memory, ISO 17100-certified linguists for the content that carries risk.
Every Technical Document, Terminology Intact
From operator manuals to spare-parts catalogs: the document types where a wrong term is not a typo, it is a support ticket or a safety issue.
User & Operator Manuals
Product manuals, operator guides, and instructions for use, with part names and procedures kept consistent across every language
Datasheets & Specifications
Product datasheets, technical specifications, and performance data where units, values, and terminology must be exact
Safety Documentation
Safety instructions, warning labels, and hazard notices, the content where translation errors carry real liability
Installation & Maintenance
Installation guides, maintenance schedules, and service documentation for field teams and distributors
Training Materials
Technical training content, e-learning modules, and internal education materials, the content Hyundai translates with Taia
CAD & InDesign Exports
IDML files, drawing annotations, and layout-heavy documentation translated with structure and formatting preserved
Quality & Process Documents
Quality manuals, SOPs, work instructions, and process documentation kept consistent across plants and markets
Catalogs & Parts Lists
Spare-parts catalogs, product catalogs, and price lists where thousands of repeated segments make translation memory pay for itself
Tenders & RFQs
Tender documentation, RFQ responses, and technical proposals translated on deadline for international bids
From Upload to Print-Ready in Hours
AI handles the volume. Your glossary handles the terminology. Linguists handle the risk.
Upload Technical Documents
Drop in manuals, datasheets, or InDesign exports in any of 65+ formats. Layout and structure preserved.
AI Translation with Your Glossary
AI translates the whole document in context, applying your glossary and translation memory so terminology stays fixed.
Review Where It Matters
Your own engineers review in the built-in CAT editor, or ISO 17100-certified linguists verify safety-critical content.
Delivery in the Same Format
Download translations in the file format you sent, ready for print, publishing, or the next market.
Why Raw Machine Translation Fails on Technical Content
Here's the thing: generic tools translate sentences. Technical documentation needs a system that remembers your terminology, survives your file formats, and knows when a human should check the result.
Terminology that never drifts
Google Translate has no memory: the same valve gets three different names across one manual. Taia locks your part names, product names, and technical terms in a glossary, and your translation memory reuses every sentence you have already approved. The more you translate, the more consistent it gets.
Formatting that survives
Technical documents are layout-heavy: tables, callouts, numbered procedures, InDesign files with linked graphics. Taia translates 65+ file formats including IDML, DOCX, XLSX, and XML, and returns the file in the same format with the layout intact. No copy-paste, no rebuilding the manual after translation.
Human review where risk lives
A mistranslated safety warning is not a quality issue, it is a liability issue. For safety documentation and anything customer-facing, ISO 17100-certified linguists with technical experience verify the translation. Three quality tiers let you match the level of review to the risk of each document.
Whole documents, in context
Taia's AI translates the full document in context instead of sentence by sentence, so it knows that "bearing" in your manual is a machine part, not a direction. It also learns your terminology and style over time, which is exactly what recurring documentation work needs.
Match the Right Approach to Each Document
Start with how much risk each document carries: self-serve AI for high-volume internal content, professional linguists for safety-critical and customer-facing material. Mix and match.
AI Translation
Self-serveSubscription-based and instant. Best for high-volume, lower-risk content: internal documentation, training materials, and first drafts your own engineers review in the built-in CAT editor. This is how Hyundai cut translation time by more than 60%.
Standard AI
Free & BasicFast, general-purpose translation for high-volume content across 204 languages.
Advanced AI
Glossary / TM · Pro PlanUses your Technical Glossary & Translation Memory from the first draft, so part names and terminology stay consistent across every manual. Less to fix later.
Professional Services
Recommended for safety-criticalPay-per-word translation by ISO 17100-certified linguists with technical experience. For safety documentation, published manuals, and anything with liability attached. This is the model behind Unior's 65-70% cost reduction.
- ✓ Linguists experienced with technical and manufacturing content
- ✓ Verifies terminology, units, procedures, and safety phrasing
- ✓ Reuses your Translation Memory, so repeated segments are never charged twice
- ✓ Instant quotes with delivery dates you can plan a product launch around
Three quality tiers, Essential, Enhanced, and Ultimate, so you match the level of review to each document. Compare tiers →
Manufacturing Teams Already Run on Taia
Two manufacturing clients, two different problems, real numbers from both.
Unior Special Machines cut translation costs by 65-70%
Unior, a supplier of machining equipment working with brands like BMW, Bosch, and Caterpillar, translates manuals and instructions where errors could mean safety issues or equipment damage. With Taia they completed 150+ projects across 24 language combinations, at 65-70% lower cost than their previous provider, without dropping quality.
"The Taia app is easy to use and you get an instant quotation for your translation project. In addition to the cost, you instantly know when you can expect your translation to be done." Metka B., Mechanical Construction, Unior Special MachinesRead the Unior case study →
Hyundai Avto Trade shortened translation time by more than 60%
Hyundai's technical trainer was translating internal education materials for mechanics in Word, with no translation memory and very specific automotive vocabulary. After a 20-minute onboarding on Taia's CAT editor, translation memory started suggesting accurate translations upfront, and translation time dropped by more than 60%.
"The style and accuracy with which my technical documents were translated was exactly what I expected it to be." Aleksander Stojanović, Technical Trainer, Hyundai Avto TradeRead the Hyundai case study →
ISO 17100 Certified
Certified translation process for professional services
GDPR Compliant
Your documents handled under EU data-protection rules
No AI Training
Your content is never used to train AI models
EU Hosting
Data processed exclusively in AWS eu-west-1
What Technical Translation Typically Costs
Ballpark word counts and pricing to help you scope a project before you request a quote.
Typical Word Counts
- Product datasheet 500-2,000 words
- Quick-start guide 1,000-3,000 words
- Safety documentation set 2,000-8,000 words
- User / operator manual 5,000-30,000 words
- Training course materials 10,000-40,000 words
- Service & maintenance docs 10,000-50,000 words
- Full documentation set, multi-language 50,000+ words
Flexible Pricing
Pay only for what you need. Repeated segments are reused from translation memory, which is where the biggest savings on recurring documentation come from.
Free
5,000 credits/month • Standard AI only • No credit card
Basic: €9/month
20,000 credits/month • Standard AI
Pro: €39/month
Adds Translation Memory, Glossary, Style Guide & Advanced AI
Professional Services
€0.06–0.15/word • ISO 17100-certified linguists with technical experience • Get a quote
Frequently Asked Questions
What are technical translation services?
Technical translation services convert technical documentation, including user manuals, datasheets, safety instructions, maintenance guides, and training materials, from one language to another while keeping terminology exact and formatting intact. Unlike general translation, technical translation depends on domain-specific vocabulary: a torque value, a part name, or a safety warning has one correct rendering, and it has to be the same rendering in every manual, every language, every time. That is why technical translation is built around a translation memory and a glossary, not just a translator.
Why is raw machine translation risky for technical documentation?
Generic tools like Google Translate work sentence by sentence with no memory of your terminology, so the same component gets a different name on page 3 than on page 40, and safety-critical phrasing can drift. They also strip layout, which matters when your manual is an InDesign file with tables, callouts, and diagrams. Taia translates the whole document in context, applies your glossary and translation memory so terminology stays fixed, and returns the file in its original format.
Which technical documents do you translate?
Taia translates user and operator manuals, installation and maintenance guides, product datasheets and specifications, safety documentation and warning labels, training materials and e-learning content, engineering drawings and CAD-adjacent exports, quality documentation, tender and RFQ documents, and spare-parts catalogs. If your engineering or documentation team produces it, we can translate it with the terminology kept consistent.
Can you translate InDesign, XML, and other engineering file formats?
Yes. Taia supports 65+ file formats including IDML (InDesign), DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, XML, XLIFF, and structured formats used by documentation tools. Layout, tables, styles, and embedded elements are preserved, so a translated manual comes back ready for review rather than ready for a week of desktop publishing. For scanned PDFs we support OCR, but we always recommend uploading the original editable source file for the best result.
How do you keep technical terminology consistent across manuals?
Two linguistic resources do the heavy lifting: a glossary that locks your part names, product names, and technical terms to one approved translation per language, and a translation memory that stores every sentence you have already approved and reuses it. Add a style guide and all three work across AI translation, your own team edits in the CAT editor, and professional linguist projects. Hyundai Avto Trade used exactly this setup to cut translation time for technical training content by more than 60%.
How much does technical translation cost?
AI translation is subscription-based, starting free with 5,000 credits/month. Professional translation by ISO 17100-certified linguists runs from €0.06 to €0.15 per word depending on the quality tier and language pair, and your translation memory reduces the professional cost over time because repeated segments are reused instead of retranslated. Unior Special Machines, a manufacturing client, cut translation costs by 65-70% versus their previous provider this way.
Do I need human translators for safety documentation?
For safety-critical content we recommend it. AI translation with your glossary handles high-volume, lower-risk material well, but warnings, safety instructions, and documentation with liability implications should go through professional review. Taia offers three tiers: Essential (one linguist), Enhanced (translator plus revisor, ISO 17100), and Ultimate (translation, editing, and proofreading), so you match the level of review to the risk of each document.
How fast can you translate a technical manual?
AI translation of a full manual is ready in minutes, with formatting preserved. Professional review typically adds 24-48 hours depending on volume and language pairs, and multiple target languages run in parallel so a 24-language release does not take 24 times as long. Unior runs their manuals through Taia across 24 language combinations on exactly this model.
Ready to Translate Your Technical Documentation?
Start with 5,000 free words per month, no credit card required. Translate manuals, datasheets, and training materials in 204 languages with your terminology kept consistent.