Overview
This is the core of the translation work, where teams draft, review, and refine the Scriptures. Collaboration is key to ensuring a high-quality, trustworthy translation.
Recommended Tools & Resources
Written (Literate) Translation
Paratext
Paratext was created for Bible translators by Bible translators. Specifically developed for translating the Bible into any written language, Paratext enables consistent and accurate translation, based on original texts, and modeled after quality translations in other languages.
Scribe
Scribe Scripture Editor is a free and user-friendly application that is designed to support the Bible translator with drafting and checking scripture in both text and audio formats as well as provides support for translating Open Bible Stories in different modes. The features include multi-project support, revision control (cloud sync), audio recording and seamless basic USFM editing. It has a modular architecture and is poised to grow and support the evolving needs on the ground.
translationCore
translationCore (tC) is an open source platform for checking and managing Bible translation projects with access to unfoldingWord's Translation Notes and Translation Words translation helps. tC provides an extensible interface that enables, among other things, systematic and comprehensive checking of Bible translations against multiple sources and the original languages with just-in-time training modules that provide guidelines and instruction for translators.
translationStudio
translationStudio is a utility for translating the Bible and Open Bible Stories into one or multiple languages. Also known as Translation Studio.
The Combine
The Combine is an easy-to-use tool for Rapid Word Collection (RWC)—a method of gathering words to serve as the backbone for a bilingual dictionary. At the heart of RWC are native speakers from a language community who, considering one semantic domain at a time, provide all words they can think of in their language related to that domain. The Combine facilitates collection of these words, along with translations, audio recordings, and notes, to more fully capture their form and meaning.