These are professional French translation services designed for localizing technical documents such as user guides, reference manuals, and help documentation where the translation is more concerned with conveying factual and straightforward information. Also called technical translation, Stepes’ standard French translations focus on linguistic accuracy and consistency but play-down creative writing and marketing language. At Stepes, our professional French translators perform standard French translation services with the right subject matter expertise and five years of translation experience. The process is TEP (translation, editing, and proofreading.)

In addition to translating technical documentation, Stepes provides our clients with creative and marketing translations between English and French. Our creative French translation services are designed for marketing materials such as brochures, sell sheets, advertisements, and brand websites where transcreation is required to deliver engaging messages in French. Our French linguists perform translation plus creative writing services for marketing translations to ensure the translated content resonates with local audiences both linguistically and culturally.

For specific legal, medical, or other regulatory content, translations not only need to be accurate but must also be appropriately certified for official use (such as USCIS submission) or compliance with official rules and regulations. Stepes provides certified French translation services accompanied by an accuracy certificate (sworn statement) with our seal of quality, testifying the translated document is an accurate translation of the source document.

Stepes provides professional back translation services between English and French for pharmaceutical and CRO companies that require linguistic validation services for multilingual clinical trials. We also offer French back translation services for legal documents to ensure the highest linguistic and technical accuracy. As its name suggests, back translation is translating the translated content back to its source language so the accuracy can be compared and verified by a reviewer that may or may not understand the target language. To learn more about Stepes back translation services, please click here.

In addition to translating documents, Stepes also provides professional software translation and localization between English and French. Stepes’ innovative software localization technologies allow our French linguists to view the actual GUIs (software interfaces) in real-time, providing context references for the linguists to the most accurate French translations the first time around.

Stepes provides our clients with the independent 3rd party review of English-French translations done by other translation companies. We use the J2450 metrics to measure the translation quality using seven-point checking standards, such as terminology accuracy, mistranslation, omission, missing translation, inconsistency, etc.