# Introduction

BabelShark is an online localisation (translation) utility for web sites and HTML-based apps (Cordova, Ionic, Meteor, React).

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### Pecular features

BabelShark uses an automatic translation services under the hood. However it is dramatically different from Google Translate:

* you specify strings to translate,
* you specify the list of languages wish to you support,
* finally, the automatic translation is being done only once (and saved in database),&#x20;
* You can correct any of translated strings:

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Think of BabelShark as of Google Translate with a controllable input and output.

### Team work and world language

You can delegate the proofreading (fixing the specific strings) to a specific person(s) in your team.

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You might miss some languages in your team indeed (Chinese? Mid-west? something more exotic?). BabelShark has native speakers for hire!


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