We assign four language tiers based on whether two solutions meet the requirements and how many steps they need.

For Basic, the tiers follow general translation quality, the only requirement of the level.

For Standard, two one-step solutions meet tone of voice, tags and formatting on their own in 57 or 58 of the 58 languages of tier 2, and general translation quality in 21 of them. In those 21, fewer than two one-step solutions meet all the requirements at once.

Of the 29 languages of tier 3 for Advanced, 25 have fewer than two gender-neutral best solutions even with the gender-neutrality agent. In Afrikaans, Burmese, Portuguese (European) and Sundanese, the gender-neutral versions miss other requirements.

In the explorer, EPT counts the errors of every requirement, each error once. To the general translation quality errors (critical, major and minor), it adds the missed glossary terms, the sentences in the wrong register, the tag errors and the sentences that miss gender neutrality, per 1,000 source words of the four texts, at every quality level. Each count is the share missed times the number of terms, sentences or tags checked in the four texts. Formatting is a requirement a text meets or misses as a whole, so it decides only whether a solution meets a quality level. The tier chart and the table of errors, cost and time per tier count the general translation quality errors only.

Languages of each tier, for the Basic, Standard and Advanced requirements

TierLanguages in the tierLanguages
Basic
Tier 141Arabic (MSA), Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Lao, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (European), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh
Tier 238Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Basque, Cebuano, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Punjabi, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Uzbek, Yiddish
Tier 33Afrikaans, Burmese, Sundanese
Tier 418Haitian Creole, Hausa, Igbo, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Malagasy, Maltese, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Turkmen, Uyghur, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Standard
Tier 120Arabic (MSA), Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Galician, Greek, Indonesian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (European), Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese
Tier 258Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Cebuano, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Odia (Oriya), Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Welsh, Yiddish
Tier 34Afrikaans, Burmese, Frisian, Sundanese
Tier 418Haitian Creole, Hausa, Igbo, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Malagasy, Maltese, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Turkmen, Uyghur, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
Advanced
Tier 16Danish, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Turkish, Vietnamese
Tier 247Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lao, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Odia (Oriya), Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Welsh
Tier 329Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic (MSA), Bosnian, Burmese, Czech, French, Frisian, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Nepali, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish (European), Sundanese, Urdu, Yiddish
Tier 418Haitian Creole, Hausa, Igbo, Javanese, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Malagasy, Maltese, Scottish Gaelic, Sesotho, Shona, Somali, Turkmen, Uyghur, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu

Languages of each tier, with the number of them with two one-step solutions meeting each requirement taken alone

TierLanguages in the tierOf them with a glossaryGeneral translation qualityTone of voiceTerminologyTagsFormattingGender neutrality
Basic
Tier 14141
Tier 2380
Tier 330
Tier 418
Standard
Tier 1203202032020
Tier 258132157135758
Tier 3400344
Tier 418
Advanced
Tier 16066666
Tier 247818468464723
Tier 32981728829291
Tier 418

For each requirement of the level, the number of languages of the tier where two or more one-step solutions meet that requirement on its own. Terminology counts among the languages with a glossary. Gender neutrality: both best solutions gender-neutral without the gender-neutrality agent.

Language tiers for the Basic, Standard and Advanced requirements: errors, cost and time

Language tierBasicStandardAdvanced
Tier 1: one-step solutions
  • 41 languages
  • 11.2 errors per 1,000 words
  • $4.61 per million characters
  • 55 s per 1,000 words
  • 20 languages
  • 10.9 errors per 1,000 words
  • $4.50 per million characters
  • 49 s per 1,000 words
  • 6 languages
  • 11.6 errors per 1,000 words
  • $7.10 per million characters
  • 35 s per 1,000 words
Tier 2: complex solutions
  • 38 languages
  • 8.6 errors per 1,000 words
  • $546 per million characters
  • 178 s per 1,000 words
  • 58 languages
  • 9.6 errors per 1,000 words
  • $30.26 per million characters
  • 137 s per 1,000 words
  • 47 languages
  • 8.9 errors per 1,000 words
  • $47.47 per million characters
  • 191 s per 1,000 words
Tier 3: no reliable high quality
  • 3 languages
  • 18.8 errors per 1,000 words
  • $636 per million characters
  • 243 s per 1,000 words
  • 4 languages
  • 16.3 errors per 1,000 words
  • $599 per million characters
  • 262 s per 1,000 words
  • 29 languages
  • 12.2 errors per 1,000 words
  • $968 per million characters
  • 224 s per 1,000 words
Tier 4: cannot assess
  • 18 languages
  • no LQA result
  • 18 languages
  • no LQA result
  • 18 languages
  • no LQA result

Medians over the languages of the cell: errors per 1,000 words of the best solution that meets the level, the cost of the cheapest and the time of the fastest. In tier 3, where no solution meets the level, the best solution of the language. The cost of a three-step solution includes the Intento LQA step, an estimate.

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