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KristaM's avatar
KristaM
Community Member
2 months ago

Translation for Custom Blocks, Code Blocks, and Text-to-speech

I was just on David's call and these new features in Rise look really great. I can see a lot of possibilities—if I can get them translated.  What are the translation options, processes, and limitatio...
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ThiMalta's avatar
ThiMalta
Community Member
11 days ago

Hi Lauren,


My experiment better than what you describe: I made a course with all the 'custom blocks' (keeping the text for the templates) and I was able to export the xliff file with all the text and import translation.
This is rather good, but of course there is a limit: In custom blocks we can do whatever we want but the layout won't be responsive to the change of text length. If you translate in a language that uses more words than in English, It will be a problem.
In general the layout of custom block is not responsive, so it won't fit courses that have to be used both on laptops and smartphones, unless designers had that in mind...

My question was about code blocks. Indeed for them XLIFF export does not work.

  • Janina_Valles's avatar
    Janina_Valles
    Staff
    5 days ago

    Hi ThiMalta!

    Thanks for the added detail. You’re absolutely right: text inside custom blocks is included in the XLIFF export, but custom blocks are not fully responsive, which can cause layout issues in translated courses.

    For code blocks specifically, those are not yet included in the translation export, so they do have to be updated manually after import.

    I’ve shared this with our product team so they can consider adding code block support to the XLIFF workflow.

    Really appreciate you pointing this out and explaining the impact.

    We'll keep you posted as soon as we have updates!