Translating Audacity

Translating Audacity is the best way to get involved right in Audacity's UI without having to code.

Audacity is translated into multiple languages by volunteers across the world. You can contribute using Transifex.

Using Transifex to translate Audacity

You can find and join the Audacity project at https://explore.transifex.com/audacity/audacity/

• Click the JOIN THIS PROJECT button on the right side.

• Select the language you would like to contribute to from the dropdown.

• Click Join Project (if the language is Available to join) or Request Language if the language you want to contribute to is not available yet.

Select the language you want to translate Audacity to and click Join Project or Request Language

Once you have been approved as a translator you will receive a notification by email. After that you will see the project in your Dashboard and you can start to contribute.

Audacity Project Dashboard in Transifex

• Click Translate at the top right side

• Select Audacity from the Resource Overview panel to start editing

• Select the string to translate and type the corresponding translation

• Click Save Translation and select the next string to translate.

Use the Transifex Editor to translate strings

To speed up your workflow, various shortcuts are available, which you can see by pressing the overflow menu in the Transifex editor:

The most important one of these probably is Tab, which saves your string and automatically moves you onto the next.

And that's it! Happy translating!

Join the translator community

The translator community exists in two places:

• On discord

• In the audacity-translation mailing list

If you have any questions, or want to get notified of upcoming releases in need of translation you can do so here.