Articulate Localization: Overview

Develop high-quality localized courses seamlessly with Articulate Localization, a localization solution integrated right into Articulate’s unparalleled authoring platform. This overview covers the basics of Articulate Localization and explains how to access it.

What Articulate Localization Does
What Languages Are Available
What Gets Translated
How to Access Localization

What Articulate Localization Does

Articulate Localization helps you upskill your global learners more quickly and efficiently with three primary processes:

One-Click AI Translation

Instantly translate Rise 360 and Storyline 360 courses into 80+ languages with fully integrated AI translation. Upload custom glossaries to maintain consistency and incorporate specialized terminology.

In-Context Language Validation

Verify the accuracy of localized content with a new language validation experience in Review 360. Validators can preview their changes in context, and authors can import them directly back into the source project.

Multi-language Workflow Management

Streamline end-to-end localization for your Rise 360 and Storyline 360 courses. Manage all your languages in a single project, keep track of the validation process in Review 360, and publish all languages at once to Reach 360 or your LMS.

What Languages Are Available

Translate your content into over 80 languages, including certain regional variations such as Canadian French and Brazilian Portuguese.

Afrikaans	Finnish	Lithuanian	Sinhaha
Albanian	French (Canada)	Luxembourgish	Slovak
Amharic	French (France)	Macedonian	Slovenian
Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic)	Georgian	Malay	Somali
Armenian	German	Malayalam	Spanish (Latin America)
Azerbaijani	Greek	Maltese	Spanish (Mexico)
Bangla	Gujarati	Maori	Spanish (Spain)
Bosnian	Haitian Creole	Marathi	Swahili
Bulgarian	Hausa	Mongolian	Swedish
Catalan	Hebrew	Nepali	Tamil
Chinese, Simplified	Hindi	Norwegian	Telugu
Chinese, Simplified (China)	Hungarian	Norwegian Bokmål	Tetum
Chinese, Traditional	Icelandic	Nyanja	Thai
Chinese, Traditional (Taiwan)	Indonesian	Pashto	Tigrinya
Croatian	Irish	Persian (Iran)	Turkish
Czech	Italian	Polish	Ukrainian
Danish	Japanese	Portuguese (Brazil)	Urdu
Dari (Afghanistan)	Kannada	Portuguese (Portugal)	Uzbek
Dutch	Kazakh	Punjabi	Vietnamese
English (UK)	Khmer	Romanian	Welsh
English (US)	Korean (Standard South Korean)	Russian
Estonian	Lao	Samoan
Filipino (Tagalog)	Latvian	Serbian

Note: Many languages available for one-click translation also offer different degrees of formality. Articulate Localization defaults to Automatic, which determines the best formality level based on your content. However, you can adjust the formality of the translation based on your organization’s communication style.

Tool Tip: Use our language lookup tool to see which target languages are supported for your source language and if the language pair supports glossary, formality, and right-to-left.

Here’s how to use it:

Launch the language lookup tool in a separate browser window.
Select your source language from the Select a Source Language dropdown.
A table displays all the supported target languages for the chosen source language with columns for glossary, formality, and right-to-left. A green checkmark in these columns means the corresponding target language supports it.

What Gets Translated

The following chart explains which parts of courses are translated and how:

Part	Behavior
On-slide text, including slide notes and text variable values (Storyline 360 only)	Automatically translated
Block text (Rise 360 only)	Automatically translated
Closed captions (video, audio)	Automatically translated
Text labels in Rise 360 and player text labels in Storyline 360	Default text labels for each target language are automatically assigned. Custom text labels are not translated. However, in Rise 360, you can assign custom label sets to individual language versions after translation.
Alternative text	Automatically translated for customized alternative text but not default alt text generated by the app
Question banks	Questions drawn from question banks are translated together with the course.

How to Access Localization

Articulate 360 primary admins and 360 admins can start a free trial by clicking the Start a Trial button under the Localization section of the Manage Subscription page. To purchase directly, contact our sales team.

During a trial, all creators are automatically given the ability to translate content in Rise 360 and Storyline 360 and start the localization workflow. Primary admins and 360 admins can remove an author’s translation access via the Localization section on the Manage Team page. Translation access settings are retained when purchasing from a trial.

When Localization is purchased directly without a trial, creators aren’t given the ability to translate by default. A 360 admin must navigate to the Manage Team page to grant translation access to specific creators. Those creators must start any localization workflows.

Once Articulate Localization is enabled, creators with translation access immediately see the Translate option when they click the more (...) icon of any content tile in the Rise 360 dashboard. If it’s not showing right away, simply refresh the page.

For Storyline 360, creators with translation access see a Translate Course option when they navigate to File > Localization. They must use Storyline version 3.94.33593.0 or later. Here’s how to check the Storyline 360 version and how to update to the latest version of the app.