Connected Language Operations
Build Translation Into the Systems Your Teams Already Use
Enterprise content is created across content management systems, product databases, support platforms, applications, repositories, and business workflows. The Stepes Translation API connects translation directly to those systems so multilingual content can move without disconnected handoffs.
Automate Content Handoffs
Send translation requests from your existing applications and return approved results to the correct source system.
Match Quality to Each Use Case
Apply AI translation, professional review, specialized human translation, quality assurance, and approval according to content visibility and risk.
Keep Multilingual Content Moving
Use job status, workflow events, and delivery notifications to coordinate translation across teams, markets, and content platforms.
Standardize Global Operations
Create repeatable processes across business units while maintaining the context, terminology, quality controls, and governance each workflow requires.
Configurable Quality
One Translation API, Multiple Quality Workflows
Not every piece of content needs the same translation process. Stepes lets you select the right quality path for each content type while maintaining one connected API framework.
AI Translation
Use AI-powered translation for high-volume, frequently updated, internal, time-sensitive, or review-bound content.
Best suited for: recurring updates, searchable knowledge, initial drafts, internal communications, and lower-risk content.
AI Translation + Professional Review
Combine AI speed with review by professional linguists who refine accuracy, terminology, fluency, tone, context, and audience fit.
Best suited for: websites, product information, technical content, customer support, training, and customer-facing communications.
Professional Human Translation
Route specialized, sensitive, regulated, or high-impact content through professional translators with the appropriate subject-matter expertise.
Best suited for: legal, medical, financial, regulatory, clinical, technical, and corporate content.
Quality Assurance and Approval
Add automated checks, linguistic quality assurance, subject-matter review, stakeholder approval, or controlled publishing stages to the workflow.
Best suited for: regulated communications, product releases, brand-sensitive content, and controlled publishing.
How It Works
Connect Translation to Your Content Architecture
Use a repeatable workflow to submit content, configure languages and quality, track progress, and return approved multilingual results to the right system.
Connect Your Application
Configure approved server-side access for development, testing, or production.
Submit Content
Send text, structured content, business documents, localization resources, or supported files.
Configure the Workflow
Define languages, quality paths, terminology, translation memory, review, and approval requirements.
Translate and Review
Route content through the selected AI, professional translation, and quality workflow.
Track Progress
Monitor projects and language jobs through status resources and signed webhook events.
Retrieve Results
Return completed multilingual content to the originating application, repository, or business system.
Enterprise Content Coverage
Translate the Content Your Business Depends On
Support broad enterprise translation automation across content formats, business functions, and global operations.
Text and Structured Data
Translate interface text, database content, field values, JSON-based content, customer communications, and other structured language assets.
Business Documents
Submit documents used by marketing, legal, finance, HR, operations, training, product, support, and executive teams.
Product and E-commerce Content
Translate product descriptions, catalogs, attributes, specifications, marketplace content, and recurring commercial updates.
Customer Support Content
Connect help centers, knowledge bases, service documentation, chatbot content, customer emails, and support communications.
Marketing and Digital Content
Translate campaigns, landing pages, emails, product launches, brand messaging, and other digital experiences.
Technical Documentation and Product Content
Process manuals, specifications, service documentation, application content, release communications, and technical updates.
Explore the Software Localization APILanguage Assets and Governance
Control More Than Translation
Connect context, approved terminology, translation memory, quality controls, review responsibilities, and publishing requirements to each workflow.
Translation Memory
Reuse previously approved translations to improve consistency and reduce unnecessary retranslation.
Explore Translation MemoryTerminology Management
Apply approved product names, technical terms, regulated wording, and brand language across markets.
Explore Terminology ManagementContext and Guidance
Provide audience, purpose, subject matter, tone, interface location, formatting, and intended-use instructions.
Configurable Review
Determine which content uses AI, professional post-editing, full human translation, subject-matter review, or approval.
Translation Quality Assurance
Apply automated and human controls for terminology, completeness, consistency, formatting, and acceptance criteria.
Explore Translation Quality AssuranceTraceability
Associate activity with source systems, project records, target languages, reviews, approvals, and deliveries.
Translation API Use Cases
Integrate multilingual workflows wherever enterprise content is created, updated, reviewed, and delivered.
CMS and Digital Publishing
Submit new and updated pages, articles, campaigns, and structured content for translation and return approved versions for publishing.
Product Information Management
Translate product descriptions, specifications, attributes, categories, support content, and commercial data across markets.
Multilingual Customer Support
Connect support portals, knowledge bases, ticketing systems, service documentation, and customer communications.
Technical Content Operations
Integrate document repositories, authoring environments, knowledge systems, and technical publishing workflows.
Enterprise Document Workflows
Standardize translation requests across legal, HR, finance, marketing, procurement, operations, and compliance.
AI-Generated Content
Route enterprise AI content through terminology, contextual guidance, professional review, quality assurance, and approval before external use.
Enterprise Reliability
Designed for Secure, Predictable Integrations
Production translation workflows often process files, coordinate multiple target languages, involve reviewers, and deliver results over time. Stepes supports these operational requirements with secure access, durable processing, and traceable delivery.
Server-Side Authentication
Keep credentials in approved server-side environments rather than browser code, public repositories, or client-side configuration.
Controlled Access
Align credentials, permissions, environments, and integration responsibilities with enterprise governance.
Environment Separation
Maintain appropriate separation between development, testing, and production activity.
Asynchronous Processing
Monitor translation, review, quality assurance, and approval workflows without holding application requests open.
Safe Retries
Recover from temporary interruptions while reducing unintended duplicate translation requests.
Structured Errors
Use consistent error information and request identifiers to troubleshoot failed requests.
Encrypted Communication
Protect content and request data while it moves between your enterprise systems and Stepes.
Traceable Delivery
Connect completed deliverables to the correct project, language, workflow state, and source-system record.
Event-Driven Automation
Secure Webhooks for Translation Workflows
Receive signed events when projects, target-language jobs, reviews, approvals, exceptions, and deliveries change. Your systems can update records, notify stakeholders, retrieve results, and resume downstream workflows.
Explore Webhooks DocumentationChoose the Right Stepes Integration
Select the integration model that best matches where your content lives and how translated results must be delivered.
Translation API
For text, structured data, business documents, content files, product information, customer communications, and general enterprise translation workflows.
View DocumentationSoftware Localization API
For resource files, translation keys, branches, placeholders, plural rules, repositories, CI/CD workflows, and localized release builds.
Explore the APIWebsite Translation Proxy
For managed multilingual website delivery without building a conventional content exchange integration.
Explore the ProxyPlatform Integrations
For prebuilt or configurable connections to enterprise content, product, support, marketing, collaboration, and repository systems.
Explore IntegrationsConnected Platform
Extend Your API Workflow With the Stepes Platform
Connect your integration to the broader controls, language assets, automation, and visibility used across enterprise translation operations.
Implementation Support
Move From Integration Design to Production
Align content models, quality requirements, security expectations, review responsibilities, delivery logic, and exception handling with your operating environment.
Talk to a Translation API ExpertUse-Case and Architecture Review
Evaluate content systems, request patterns, languages, quality levels, data flow, and delivery models.
Workflow Design
Determine how AI, professional translation, post-editing, review, quality assurance, and approvals should be applied.
Language Asset Configuration
Connect translation memory, terminology, contextual instructions, and other approved language resources.
Security and Access Planning
Review credential handling, permissions, environment separation, webhook verification, and content requirements.
Integration Testing
Validate authentication, submissions, workflow behavior, event handling, exception recovery, and result delivery.
Production Readiness
Confirm monitoring, traceability, retries, duplicate prevention, webhook failures, and technical support procedures.
Translation API FAQ
Answers to common questions about enterprise translation automation, workflow quality, security, content support, and implementation.
What is a translation API?
A translation API connects applications and content systems to translation workflows. It allows a system to submit content, specify languages and requirements, monitor progress, and retrieve completed translations through structured requests rather than manual file transfers.
How is the Stepes Translation API different from a machine translation API?
A conventional machine translation API primarily returns an automated translation. Stepes connects applications to broader workflows that can include AI translation, translation memory, terminology, professional post-editing, human translation, linguistic review, quality assurance, and approval.
Can the API support both AI and human translation?
Yes. Workflows can support AI translation, AI translation with professional review, professional human translation, post-editing, linguistic review, quality assurance, subject-matter validation, and stakeholder approval.
What types of content can be submitted?
The API supports workflows for text, structured content, business documents, localization resources, product information, customer communications, technical content, and other supported files and inputs. Current formats and limits are provided in the developer documentation.
Does the API support multiple target languages?
Yes. A translation project can define a source locale and multiple target locales. Each target language can progress through its configured translation, review, approval, and delivery stages.
Is the Translation API synchronous or asynchronous?
Eligible requests may complete synchronously. Larger submissions, files, multiple languages, professional review, approvals, and other workflows that continue over time use asynchronous jobs that can be monitored through status resources and webhooks.
How does our application know when translation is complete?
Applications can retrieve project and language-job status or subscribe to signed webhook events. Events can indicate processing updates, review milestones, approvals, exceptions, and completed deliveries.
Can we use our translation memory and terminology?
Yes. Workflows can apply approved translation memory, product names, technical terms, regulated language, brand wording, contextual instructions, and other linguistic guidance.
What is the difference between the Translation API and Software Localization API?
The Translation API supports general text, documents, files, structured data, and business content. The Software Localization API is designed around software resource files, translation keys, strings, locales, branches, placeholders, review states, repositories, and localized release builds.
How does the API protect credentials?
Credentials should be stored in secure server-side environments and restricted to approved applications. They should not be exposed in browser code, public mobile applications, client-side configuration, or public source repositories.
How is Translation API pricing determined?
Pricing depends on content type, source and target languages, volume, translation method, professional review, subject-matter specialization, file processing, quality assurance, turnaround expectations, and implementation needs.
How do we get Translation API access?
Contact Stepes with information about your application, content types, languages, expected volume, translation workflows, security requirements, and implementation plans. The Stepes team will review the use case and coordinate approved API access and environment setup.
Build Translation Into Your Enterprise Workflow
Connect your applications and content systems to configurable AI translation, professional human review, terminology, quality assurance, approvals, and multilingual delivery.