To make high-quality routes accessible to an international audience, RouteYou automatically translates popular routes. Here you'll read when this happens, how to recognize an automatic translation, and how you can edit it as an author.
When is a route automatically translated?
RouteYou uses Microsoft Azure translation technology to automatically translate content. This doesn't happen immediately upon saving, but through periodic processing for the following routes:
- Routes with at least 3 stars: If the title and description are not yet available in the official language of the region where the route is located, a translation into that local language is automatically generated.
- 5-star routes: Regardless of the region, these top-rated routes are always automatically translated into English.
Why are routes automatically translated?
RouteYou's search feature prioritizes results in the user's preferred language. By automatically translating top routes into the local language or English, they appear right away in search results for international outdoor enthusiasts searching in that specific region.
How do you recognize an automatic translation?
At the top of a route page, under Route Information, you'll see which languages the route is available in. Automatically translated routes feature an Azure label or logo, making it clear to every visitor that the text was automatically generated.
Editing an automatic translation as an author
Automatic translations are good quality, but not always flawless. As an author or co-author, you can manually improve or replace an automatic translation at any time:
- Open your route on the RouteYou website.
- At the bottom of the information column, click the
'More' button.
- Select
Edit and click
Basic info.
- Choose your desired language and update the title or description.
- Click Confirm.
As soon as you manually edit and save an automatic translation, the Azure label disappears. This indicates that the text has been reviewed by the author.