How translation works in Mobile App and Chat

Our mobile app was developed to ensure your multilingual community will receive all school news, info, and messaging in their preferred language. Based on your SIS or mobile device settings, your community can select which language they want for their mobile app experience. Today, we support approximately 57 languages and are continuously increasing our language offerings.

Finalsite's New Mobile App and Chat offers dynamic chat translation offering the content on the mobile app and chat feature in each user's preferred language. This means that users accessing the app and chat feature can view content, send, and receive messages in their preferred language.

This article will show you how it works!

In this Article

• What is translated in the Mobile App? 
• What translation services do we use? 
• Which languages do we support? 
• How does a mobile app or chat user select their language preference? 

What is translated in Mobile App and Chat? 

All content in the app, including chat messages, are translated into each user's preferred language. 

What translation services do we use? 

We offer industry best-in-class translation services including Amazon Translate, Google Translate, and Open AI, based on different content needs. Amazon Translate is a top 5 machine translation software. Like Google, Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service, which uses deep learning to deliver more accurate and natural translation than traditional algorithms.

Which languages do we support? 

Here are the 57 languages supported in Finalsite's mobile app and chat:

1. Afrikaans
2. Albanian
3. Amharic
4. Arabic
5. Azerbaijani
6. Bengali
7. Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
8. Bulgarian
9. Chinese (Simplified)
10. Chinese (Traditional)
11. Croatian
12. Czech
13. Danish
14. Dari
15. Dutch
16. English
17. Estonian
18. Finnish
19. French
20. French (Canada)
21. Georgian
22. German
23. Greek
24. Haitian Creole
25. Hausa
26. Hebrew
27. Hindi
28. Hungarian
29. Indonesian
30. Italian
31. Japanese
32. Korean
33. Latvian
34. Lithuanian
35. Malay
36. Norwegian
37. Pashto (Afghanistan)
38. Persian
39. Polish
40. Portuguese
41. Romanian
42. Russian
43. Serbian
44. Slovak
45. Slovenian
46. Somali
47. Spanish
48. Spanish (Mexico)
49. Swahili
50. Swedish
51. Tagalog
52. Tamil
53. Thai
54. Turkish
55. Ukrainian
56. Urdu
57. Vietnamese

How does a mobile app or chat user select their language preference? 

App translation follows the device's language settings. If unsupported, it defaults to English. Users can also choose their language in the app profile settings, which overrides the device settings.