Stepes is an ISO 9001:2015 certified translation company. We have localization best practices and stringent quality assurance processes to ensure the highest level of linguistic accuracy and cultural precision between English and French Canadian on a consistent basis. The following list illustrates some important components within our French-Canadian translation workflow.

1. Dedicated Linguistic Team: For each of our enterprise clients, Stepes assembles a dedicated team of French-Canadian linguists and subject matter experts with the right knowledge and skills matching the customer’s technical field. This dedicated approach ensures linguistic consistency and knowledge retention over time for continued improvement.
2. Translation Memory: Next, we build a master English-French Canadian TM (translation memory) database for translation leverage. For customers who have done French Canadian translations with another vendor, we request our customers send us their legacy TMs so we can leverage existing translations for cost savings as well as ensure linguistic consistency. If the customer has complaints about the linguistic quality, Stepes can help the customer review existing TM segments and fix all linguistic issues.
3. Terminology Management: Stepes works with the client to proactively build an English-French Canadian terminology glossary. Terminology management is a centerpiece of Stepes’ professional translation services for linguistic accuracy and consistency on a continuous basis.
4. Linguistic Review: For selected projects, Stepes conducts a full linguistic review by the customer’s Canadian office French staff or 3rd party translation reviewers. Stepes has developed a powerful online linguistic review portal so all linguistic changes are captured automatically for future project reference. All changes are also automatically implemented in the bilingual TM files so the lasted edits are always picked up for future translations.
5. Desktop Publishing: For document translation projects with formatting and layout requirements, Stepes performs desktop publishing (DTP) for the translated documents in French Canadian so all paragraphs, tables, charts, graphics are professionally formatted to look professional.

For certain French-Canadian translation projects that require MTPE (machine translation post-editing) services, Stepes has a complete solution for enterprise MTPE. For a complete discussion on Stepes’ MTPE solutions, please click here.