Translate Your Documentation
for a Global Developer Audience
English-only docs limit your product's global adoption. SiteLocaleAI translates technical documentation while preserving code blocks, API references, and technical terminology.
The Problem: English-Only Docs Limit Global Adoption
Developer documentation is the front door to your product. When a developer evaluates a new tool, library, or API, the first thing they check is the documentation. If your docs are only available in English, you are creating a barrier for the 75% of developers worldwide who are not native English speakers.
Many developers can read English technical content, but comprehension suffers. Studies show that developers working in a second language take 20-40% longer to understand documentation and are more likely to misunderstand nuanced explanations. The result: slower adoption, more support tickets, and higher churn in non-English markets.
Translating documentation manually is particularly painful because technical docs change frequently. Every time you update an API reference, add a guide, or revise a tutorial, every translation needs to be updated too. Most teams give up and maintain translations only for their most important pages, leaving the rest untranslated.
The largest developer populations by country are in China, India, the United States, Brazil, and Japan. Three of the top five developer markets are primarily non-English speaking.
The Solution: LLM-Powered Doc Translation That Stays in Sync
SiteLocaleAI uses large language models to translate your documentation with full technical context awareness. Unlike generic machine translation, LLMs understand the difference between a "function" in programming and a "function" in everyday language. They know when to keep terms like <code>useState</code>, <code>kubectl</code>, or <code>git push</code> in English and when to translate surrounding explanations.
The translation engine is intelligent about code blocks. Code examples, command-line snippets, configuration files, and API endpoint paths are never translated. Comments within code blocks can optionally be translated for clarity. Variable names, function names, and technical identifiers are always preserved.
When you update your documentation, SiteLocaleAI detects changes and re-translates only the modified content. Your translations stay in sync with your source documentation automatically. No manual flagging, no translation queues, no coordinator managing which pages need updates.
Works With Every Documentation Platform
SiteLocaleAI works at the browser level, so it is compatible with any documentation platform or static site generator. Add the script tag and your docs are translatable.
Docusaurus
Facebook's popular documentation framework. SiteLocaleAI translates MDX content, sidebar navigation, and versioned docs without modifying your Docusaurus configuration.
GitBook
Widely used for product documentation. SiteLocaleAI translates GitBook pages including embedded content, API references, and interactive elements.
MkDocs
Python-based documentation generator. SiteLocaleAI works with MkDocs Material theme and all standard MkDocs configurations, translating Markdown-rendered content seamlessly.
VitePress
Vue-powered static site generator. SiteLocaleAI translates VitePress content including Vue components, sidebar, and navbar without configuration changes.
Readme.com
API documentation platform. SiteLocaleAI translates guides, reference docs, and changelog pages hosted on Readme.
Custom Docs
Built your own documentation site? SiteLocaleAI works with any HTML-based documentation regardless of the framework or static site generator used.
Key Benefits for Documentation
LLMs Understand Technical Content
Generic machine translation often mangles technical documentation. LLMs understand programming concepts, API terminology, and developer workflows. They translate "Deploy your application to the staging environment" correctly because they understand what staging environments are.
Code Blocks Preserved
Code examples are never translated. Variable names, function calls, CLI commands, and configuration snippets stay exactly as written. Only the explanatory text around code blocks is translated, ensuring that developers can copy-paste code directly from translated documentation.
SEO for Every Language
When a Japanese developer searches for "React state management tutorial" in Japanese, your translated documentation can appear in the results. The CLI tool pre-renders every documentation page in every language as static HTML with proper hreflang tags for search engine indexing.
Always In Sync
Documentation changes frequently. API references update with every release. Tutorials evolve as your product grows. SiteLocaleAI detects content changes and re-translates only the modified sections. Your translated docs are never stale.
CLI Tool for CI/CD Pre-rendering
For documentation sites, SEO is critical. Developers find documentation through search engines, and each language version of your docs needs to be indexable. The SiteLocaleAI CLI tool integrates into your CI/CD pipeline to pre-render every documentation page in every target language as static HTML.
When you deploy a documentation update, your CI/CD pipeline runs the CLI tool to generate translated static pages. These pages are deployed alongside your source documentation, ready for search engine crawlers. Each page includes proper <code>hreflang</code> tags and canonical URLs.
# In your CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
npx sitelocaleai-cli prerender --languages es,ja,de,fr --output ./build/i18n
The CLI crawls your documentation site, translates each page using the SDK, and outputs static HTML files organized by language. Deploy these files to your hosting provider (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, or any static host) and your multilingual documentation is live.
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