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Every Tranzio word in one place, each explained in a sentence or two. Bookmark it in your head; the rest of the help center leans on these terms.

Glossary

Every Tranzio word in one place, each explained in a sentence or two. Bookmark it in your head; the rest of the help center leans on these terms.

Tranzio borrows words from gaming, translation, and audio production, and it invents a couple of its own. This page defines all of them in a sentence or two. You don't need to memorize anything; come back whenever a word in the app or in this help center makes you pause.

The basics

TermMeaning
TranslationThe localized version of a game: its text, its fonts, and sometimes its voices. The thing you install to play in your language.
AdaptationOne specific translation made by one team or person. A game can have several adaptations in the same language, and you choose between them.
PatchThe installable package an adaptation is delivered as. It contains only the translation, never the game's own files.
InstallApplying a patch to your own copy of a game. Reversible, and your saves are never touched.
Restore pointThe backup Tranzio saves before an install: a copy of every original file it's about to replace. "Revert to original" restores it.
CoverageHow much of a game an adaptation translates, shown as percentages. Text only covers what you read; Text + full audio means the voices are dubbed too.
UpdateA newer version of an adaptation you've installed. Tranzio spots them and offers to bring you up to date.
AdaptationAcme pack
Patchv2.4.0 · 4.8 GB
Restore pointoriginals copied
Installyour copy of the game

Install: applying the patch to the game on your disk. Reversible, any time.

The four words above, in the order they actually happen: a team's adaptation becomes a patch, the patch arrives, Tranzio files a restore point, and only then does anything change on disk.

Finding and trusting translations

TermMeaning
VerifiedAn adaptation reviewed by Tranzio for quality and safety. The green badge.
CommunityA published adaptation that hasn't been through Tranzio's review yet. Often great; check the rating and install count.
BetaAn adaptation still being worked on, shared early. Expect missing pieces and rough edges.
RecommendedThe pick Tranzio highlights when a game has several adaptations: the highest-rated verified option for that language.
RatingThe star score players give an adaptation after installing it. Ratings belong to the adaptation, not the game.

Building a translation

TermMeaning
StringOne piece of game text: a menu label, an item name, one line of dialogue. The Translate page is a long list of strings.
PlaceholderA token inside a string, like {playerName} or %d, that the game fills in while running. Keep them exactly as they are; only their position in your sentence may change.
GlossaryYour list of agreed term translations (character names, place names, item terms), so the same word is translated the same way everywhere.
Machine assistPre-filling a row with an automatic translation you then edit. A speed boost, not a finished result.
FontThe typeface a game draws its text with. Games often ship fonts that lack non-Latin alphabets, so translations bundle better ones.
GlyphThe drawn shape of one character in a font. A character with no glyph shows up as an empty box.
English

You found {count} × Golden Rune, {playerName}.

Japanese

{playerName}、黄金のルーン × {count} を見つけた。

String: one piece of game text: a label, an item name, a line of dialogue.

One string, in two languages. The blue chips are placeholders the game fills in while it runs, and the green one is a glossary term that has to read the same way in every string that uses it.
Japanese

The game's own font

The font the patch brings

新しいゲーム

Glyph: the drawn shape of one character. A character with no glyph shows up as an empty box.

The same words drawn by a font that has the letters and by one that does not. A screen full of empty boxes is the classic sign that a game needs the font a patch brings with it.

Dubbing words

TermMeaning
DubReplacing a game's spoken voices with recordings in another language.
LineOne spoken sentence or caption segment, the unit you record when dubbing.
TakeOne recording attempt for a line. You can record several and keep the best.

Line 214 · MELINA_GREET_01

ああ、褪せ人よ。黄金樹のふもとで、ずっと待っていた。

  • Take 1
    0:03
  • Take 2
    0:03
    Kept
  • Take 3
    0:04
One line, three takes, one of them kept. A full dub is this row repeated a few thousand times, which is why most adaptations start as text only.

Shipping words

TermMeaning
BuildCompiling your translated text, fonts, and audio into a single installable patch.
VersionThe number each build gets (v1.2.0 and so on), so players know what changed and updates can flow.
PublishSharing a built adaptation in the Tranzio catalog, publicly or privately.
Draft / In review / PublishedThe lifecycle of an adaptation: only yours, submitted for a quality pass, live in the catalog.

Around the app

TermMeaning
WorkspaceThe sidebar section holding the translator tools (Translate, Audio, Fonts, Studio, Build) for the game you're working on.
LibraryYour Games page: everything you've added to translate, plus games you've installed translations into.
QueueThe waiting line on the Downloads page. Items start automatically as slots free up.
EngineThe software a game is built on (Unreal Engine, Unity, and others). It determines how Tranzio reads the game's text. During the open beta, Tranzio supports Unreal Engine 4 and 5 games, with more engines on the way.
ToolsSmall helper programs Tranzio downloads for you to unpack and rebuild certain game formats. No setup needed on your side.
Incognito modeA privacy setting that pauses activity on your public profile while you browse.

Prefer the concepts woven into a story instead of a table? Read How translations work; it covers the important half of this page in five friendly minutes.