rOpenSci | Translating Carpentries workbench lessons with babeldown
Reported on: Jul 16, 2024

Translating Carpentries workbench lessons with babeldown

English • By Hugo Gruson • Featuring: babeldown

rOpenSci package or resource used

babeldown

What did you do?

We have training materials built with the Carpentries workbench and wanted to translate them in Spanish for an upcoming training with a Peruvian audience.

Since lessons in the workbench are markdown and Rmarkdown files, babeldown appeared as a good candidates to speed up the creation of a first draft.

Output files were placed in the locale/es/episodes/, following the convention started by @joelnitta in dovetail.

The ML-generated translations, after a first rough automated post-processing (see below), were reviewed by native Spanish speakers: https://github.com/epiverse-trace/tutorials-middle/pull/95

URL or code snippet for your use case

https://github.com/epiverse-trace/tutorials-middle/pull/95

Image

Screenshot of the lesson in English|690x358

iScreenshot of the lesson in Spanish|690x358

Sector

academic, non-profit, government

Field(s) of application

epidemiology, pedagogy

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