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Date Published
Author
Stephen Meszaros
Word count
496
Language
English
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None

Summary

As we've mentioned before, user feedback is invaluable to our mission. We recently shipped a localized version of our API video call UI in French after receiving multiple requests from French-speaking customers. To design this feature, we developed a Google Sheet that captured all the UI strings and then shared it for translation with our French partner. After translating the sheet, our design team made design updates to accommodate longer string lengths and identified places where we needed to ask for shorter translations. The updated spreadsheet was implemented and shipped live, allowing developers to easily set their calls in French by using a specific API request or code snippet. We hope to bring localization to other languages in the future and encourage customers to reach out if they need a localized version for their API needs.