For researchers, PhD students & academics
Translate your paper or thesis with your terminology intact
- One term, one translation
- Hedges stay hedged
- Checked against the original
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How does a paper go through Transept?
Academic translation fails in its own ways. A general-purpose translator renders one technical term three different ways across a thesis, turns a hedged finding into a certainty, and ignores the journal template the file was written in. Each step below guards against one of those.
Import the manuscript
Pick the Thesis, Research paper, or Abstract starting point and upload the Word file (DOCX). It splits into editable paragraphs, and the headings, section numbering, tables, and figures keep their place. Writing in LaTeX? There is no .tex import yet, so convert to DOCX first (Pandoc does it in one command) or paste the text. A PDF imports as plain text and loses its layout.
Pin your terminology
Add your field’s terms to a glossary with the English form your discipline uses, or let Transept propose a glossary from the manuscript and keep the entries you approve. Already have a term list in a spreadsheet? Import it as CSV. The glossary applies everywhere, so “badanie przekrojowe” is “cross-sectional study” in the abstract, the methods, and the discussion.
Set the academic register
The academic starting points come with the Academic & research styleguide. Adjust it to your field: British or American spelling, first person or passive voice, how cautious the claims should sound. Every section follows it, and so does the next paper.
Translate, then refine the sentences that matter
Standard mode suits most papers. Pro mode is for dense argument in the humanities and social sciences, where every qualifier counts. On any sentence, ask for alternatives or give a direction of your own (“keep the passive”, “closer to the original”).
Proofread against the original
Smart Proofread rereads the English against your source text and the glossary and fixes the blocks that need it; you keep or revert each change afterwards. Then each starting point runs its own check: Check terminology on a thesis, Check claims & citations on a research paper (it flags a claim made stronger or weaker, or a citation or figure that changed), and Check keywords on an abstract.
Export and pass it on
Download the DOCX. It is your original file with the text replaced by the translation, so the journal template or your university’s thesis template stays as it was. To get a second opinion, send a co-author or your supervisor a review link, and they can comment on exact sentences without creating an account.
A lot of research is written in one language and published in another. A doctoral student in Kraków writes the thesis in Polish and the journal articles in English; a research team drafts a grant proposal in its own language and submits the international version in English. Translation agencies charge by the page for this work, and a general-purpose AI translator misses what reviewers check: consistent terminology, carefully hedged claims, and a manuscript that still fits the journal’s template. Transept is a translation workspace built for long, precise documents. You import the Word file, pin your field’s terms in a glossary, set the register in a styleguide, translate, proofread against the original, and export the same file in English, ready for your co-authors, your supervisor, or a native-speaker editor.
Why is academic text different?
One term, one translation
Reviewers notice when “participants” turns into “respondents” halfway through. The glossary keeps every term fixed across the paper, the thesis, and the next paper you write in the same field.
Hedges stay hedged
“May suggest” must not become “shows”. The Research paper starting point keeps your hedging as you wrote it, and its claims check flags any sentence that came out stronger or weaker than the original.
Unpublished work stays yours
Your manuscript is not used to train AI models, and nobody sees it unless you share it. Delete the document or your account and it is gone.
8 hours → 50 minutes
One 40,000-word document, translated by several agents at once, used to take eight hours. We got the agents to sync their memory mid-run, so a term settled in chapter 2 still holds in chapter 40. It now finishes in fifty minutes.
How the syncing worksTransept does the slowest part of academic translation: getting from your language to clean, consistent English with your terms in place. You stay the author. Every sentence waits for your decision, and you are the one who knows whether “significant” means statistically significant in that paragraph.
Journals expect native-level English, and a translation, from a person or from AI, is usually followed by a language edit. Starting that edit from a consistent draft makes it shorter and cheaper, because the editor polishes the English instead of untangling the terminology.
— Don’t take our word for it —
The editor, in miniature
A working slice of the real app: Literess, the glossary, the styleguide, workflows, and translation memory are all live. Click around.
Simple pricing
Every plan comes with monthly credits. You spend them only on AI work, at the price each action shows before you click. No sales call and no contract: start free and add a credit pack whenever you need more.
One credit covers one source word in Standard mode. Pro mode uses a more capable model and costs 3 credits per source word. Chinese and Japanese source text is counted per character. Manual edits, exports, comments and translation memory are free: you spend credits only when AI translates, rewrites or checks your text, or reads a document to build a glossary or styleguide. Every paid action shows its price on the button before you click. See the price list.
Free
Always freeFor your first projects
Unlimited users
Translated and proofread in Standard mode.
- Standard quality: fast, accurate, faithful
- Translation memory: your past translations, reused to keep new ones consistent
- Workflows: chain translation, proofreading, and checks into one run
- Glossary, styleguide, QA, import / export: all included
- Notion, Drive, TMX / XLIFF: import, export, and bring your own memory
- 50 languages: from Spanish to Tagalog
- Batch translation of whole documents
- 10 lifetime messages with Literess: your AI literary editor, who remembers your projects and preferences
- No card required
Starter
For regular client work
Unlimited users
- Pro mode: a more capable model for nuance, 3 credits per source word
- Unlimited Literess: your AI literary editor, who drafts, proofreads, and sets things up for you
- API, MCP & webhooks: automate runs, or let AI assistants work in your account
- Teams: invite anyone for free; add €29 seats to fund a shared credit pool (60,000 credits a month each)
- Top up anytime: pack credits never expire
Pro
For higher volumeFor agencies & large catalogs
Unlimited users
- Over 3× Starter’s credits: headroom for batch work and full catalogs
- Priority support: a direct line and faster replies
- Predictable bill: most months need no extra credit packs
Prices are in euros and exclude VAT. If VAT applies to your purchase, checkout shows it before you pay, and a business with a valid EU VAT ID pays the net price under reverse charge. You can buy credit packs on any plan, including Free: 30,000 credits for €19, 100,000 for €55 or 300,000 for €149. Pack credits never expire. Creating a team and inviting people is free. To share credits, add two or more seats: each seat adds its plan’s monthly credits to the team’s pool, all on one invoice. Cancel anytime and keep your plan until the end of the period you’ve paid for. We give refunds for faults on our side that we can’t fix and for billing mistakes, and EU consumers can withdraw within 14 days and get back the unused part.
Estimate the cost of your next project
- Credits used50,000 of 60,000 included on Starter
FAQ
- A 7,000-word journal article, translated and proofread in Standard mode, uses up to about 15,500 credits, so it fits the Small pack (30,000 credits for €19, no subscription). A 70,000-word thesis, translated and proofread the same way, needs about 84,000 to 154,000 credits; the top of that range assumes the proofread fixes every block. A Medium pack and two Small ones (160,000 credits for €93) cover even the top, or a Large pack (300,000 for €149) leaves room to spare. Before each run the app shows what it will cost. The Free plan gives you 2,500 credits every month, about five pages translated and proofread: enough to judge the quality on your own text.
- Yes. Upload it as one document or chapter by chapter into one project. The glossary, styleguide, and translation memory carry across all of it, so chapter 5 uses the terms you settled in chapter 1.
- For Word files, yes. The export is your original DOCX with the text replaced, so headings, section numbering, tables, figures, captions, and the layout of your journal or thesis template stay as they were. Whether you use APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, IEEE, or Vancouver, the Thesis starting point leaves in-text citations such as (Kowalski, 2021) or [12] and the reference list as you wrote them. If your citation style asks for an English translation of non-English titles in square brackets, as APA does, add those by hand or write the rule into the styleguide.
- Not yet. Footnotes, endnotes, and page headers and footers stay in the original language in the exported DOCX. If your paper relies on footnotes, as papers in history, law, and philosophy often do, translate them separately and paste them into the exported file.
- Treat it as a strong draft, then have a native speaker or a language-editing service read it before you submit. Most publishers, Elsevier and Springer Nature among them, allow AI help with language as long as the authors check the result and take responsibility for it, and many ask you to declare it. Rules differ by journal, so read the guide for authors first.
- Yes. Every payment, a credit pack as well as a subscription, comes with an invoice: at checkout, add your university’s or institute’s name and VAT number (NIP in Poland) and they appear on it. A pack is a one-off payment with no subscription, which is usually the easier thing to put through a grant. Prices are shown without VAT.
- No. It translates text you wrote and shows you every sentence to accept or change. It doesn’t write theses, paraphrase other people’s work, or help text get past a plagiarism checker. Universities set their own rules on AI tools in theses, so check yours, or ask your supervisor, before you submit.
- Yes. Glossaries and styleguides live in your library, not inside one document, so the next article, the grant report, and the thesis chapters all start with the terms you already settled. Translation memory also remembers the sentences you approved.
- Table text is translated cell by cell and the table keeps its layout. Equations made with Word’s equation editor stay as they are. Numbers, p-values, and units carry through, and the proofread flags any figure that differs from your original.
- Yes. Send a review link and they comment on exact sentences without creating an account, or invite them to the document with edit access so you both work in the same file with the same glossary.
- Most European and many Asian languages, in either direction: into English from Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, German, Spanish, or Chinese, and from English into your language when a grant or a national journal asks for it. For rare or historical languages the models are weak, and a human translator is the better choice.
- An abstract of about 250 words fits easily in the Free plan’s 2,500 monthly credits, so you can try it on yours before paying anything. The Abstract starting point also checks your keywords and proposes the field’s standard term for any that isn’t one.
Keep reading around this workflow
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- FeatureA styleguide that steers every regeneration→Tone, register, rules, formatting conventions. Write a styleguide yourself or have Transept generate one from a page of finished work. It…
- FeatureSmart Proofread before you deliver→After twenty pages, your eye stops catching things. Smart Proofread re-reads the translation against your glossary, your styleguide, and…
- FeatureDocument translation that holds together→Upload a DOCX, EPUB, Markdown, or PDF file. Transept splits it into blocks and translates each one with the whole document as context, so…
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