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<p>Yay!  You've fielded a global survey in multiple local languages.<br>Yikes!  Now you need to analyze all those local-language verbatims...
<img src="/images/blog/2018-06-18-translate/country-original-cloud.png" style="width:440px" /></p>

<p>Protobi works with Google Translate so you can start reading
and even recoding those text verbatims in multiple languages to analyze right away.</p>

<h2 id="translate-with-protobi">Translate with Protobi</h2>
<p>Select an element and choose "Translate..." from the Advanced button.
Then choose a destination language:</p>
<p><img src="/images/blog/2018-06-18-translate/translation-multi.gif" style="width:440px" /></p>
<p>Protobi uses Google Translate and works in most major browsers.
It can translate to many more languages than shown in this tiny example. </p>
<h2 id="translations-are-saved-as-formats">Translations are saved as formats</h2>
<p>Translations are stored in your project as simple value formats.
So they stay with your project when you save and reopen.</p>
<p>So you can toggle the translations on/off with the </b>Format</b> button.</p>
<p>Protobi is still working with the raw local-language values underneath,
it's just like you now have superpowers and can read all these languages.</p>
<p>Translations also export to SPSS .sav files, so you can work them in any 
other leading market research software like SPSS or MarketSight.  </p>
<h2 id="you-can-edit-translations">You can edit translations</h2>
<p>You can edit translations since they're simple formats.  </p>
<p>Here Google Translate recognizes "Ελλάδα" as the country 
and translates it to "Griechenland" in German and "Hellas" in English. 
But you can select Edit Format... and change that to "Greece":</p>
<p><img src="/images/blog/2018-06-18-translate/translate-edit-format.png" style="width:360px; display: block; margin: 0 auto"/></p>
<h2 id="recode-translated-values">Recode translated values</h2>
<p>You can even recode the raw values and toggle the translations on or off:
<img src="/images/blog/2018-06-18-translate/translate-recode.gif" style="width:500px"/></p>
<h2 id="translation-is-safe">Translation is safe</h2>
<p>Your original data is not modified so you can modify, delete and redo translation
whenever you wish.  Only the raw values for the specific selected 
element are uploaded to Google, without any other data like respondent ID, etc and sent encrypted under SSL.</p>
<h2 id="professional-translation-still-an-option">Professional translation  still an option</h2>
<p>You can still send your survey responses to a professional translation firm
and merge the results into Protobi when they come back. But that takes days,
 and maybe you want to peek at the data earlier...</p>
<h2 id="try-it-out">Try it out</h2>
<p>See a brief [Cloud translations video)[<a href="https://help.protobi.com/videos/translations-video]">https://help.protobi.com/videos/translations-video]</a>.  Then try it yourself.
Or contact our team at <a href="mailto://support@protobi.com">support@protobi.com</a> and we can discuss your survey.</p>

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