Fast translation now, AI polish later

AI is great at nuance — tone, context, getting the phrasing just right. It’s also too slow to make someone wait for a page to finish loading. So LocaleReady uses it for the second job, and never for the first.

What actually loads the page

The translation your visitors see comes from DeepL or Google, whichever you’ve connected — and it’s fast. It answers about as quickly as anything else on your page, and once something’s been translated, it’s saved. Every visitor after the first one gets the instant version, with nothing extra to wait for. AI is never part of this step.

What you can ask for, whenever you want

Automatic translation is fast, and it’s usually good. It’s not always exactly right, though — a product description’s tone, a phrase your brand always says a certain way, a bit of humor that doesn’t quite land the same in another language. That’s what the Improve with AI button, in the language panel on any post, is for.

Click it, and LocaleReady runs that one page’s translation through an AI service you’ve connected — the same way you’d connect one for anything else in WordPress. LocaleReady doesn’t pick an AI service for you, and it doesn’t hold onto any credentials of its own — that part stays with WordPress itself.

Whatever comes back replaces that page’s translation, and it’s treated like a correction you made by hand. If the original sentence ever changes later, LocaleReady notices your improved version no longer matches, rather than quietly overwriting it without telling you.

Why it works out better this way

Picture the alternative: an AI mulling things over for every single visitor. Pages would sometimes take several seconds to load, cost a lot more, for an improvement most sentences don’t even need. Keeping AI as something you reach for on purpose, on one page, means everything stays fast and affordable by default — and you can still make anything better the moment you decide it’s worth the extra beat.