OpenRouter launches localized beta in seven languages
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OpenRouter has launched interface languages in seven languages—Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Japanese, and Korean—alongside English, with localization in beta. Users can select a language from the account menu or switch directly by visiting addresses such as openrouter.ai/ja or openrouter.ai/ko/models. OpenRouter says some wording may be inaccurate during the beta, and users can provide feedback via the "select to report" feature in the language dialog. According to OpenRouter, the system scans changed English copy daily, translates it in batches using GPT-6.1 Sol, then has the same model verify the semantics, retrying with the reason attached on failure, and finally merges it manually in the form of a pull request. OpenRouter says a full retranslation of all 16,918 pieces of copy across the site would cost about $460, roughly 6% of Smartling's machine translation quote.
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OpenRouter launched beta localization into Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, and Korean, using a daily pipeline that detects changed English strings, translates them with GPT-6.1 Sol, runs code checks, and has a second model verify meaning against the English, retrying with objections attached. Translations are committed as JSON catalogs in Git with fingerprints of their English source, and reader reports become glossary rules, style notes, overrides, or eval cases. A full retranslation of 16,918 strings into 7 languages costs about $460, versus about $7,200 at Smartling's published machine translation rate.
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