Scripture Forge

An online app for team-based Bible translation, featuring AI help and tools for community review

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Scripture Forge: Collaborative Bible Translation Tool

Scripture Forge is a revolutionary web application designed to streamline the Bible translation process. Accessible on both mobile devices and desktops, it provides a browser-based environment for community checking and translation. Our platform also supports temporary offline work, ensuring that your project remains uninterrupted. Scripture Forge’s Paratext integration and ongoing synchronization ensure your project stays up-to-date, allowing for seamless user feedback via Paratext Notes.

Scripture Forge empowers translation teams to draft and edit collaboratively, eliminating the hassle of managing multiple conflicting versions. With features like Draft Generation powered by Artificial Intelligence, translators can generate rough drafts based on previously translated Scripture, saving valuable time and effort. The Community Checking tool further enhances the process by facilitating modular Scripture checking campaigns. This means broader feedback delivered faster to the translation committee, accelerating the entire translation process.

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Collaborative Editing

Scripture Forge allows teams to draft and edit translations together efficiently. No more worrying about reconciling multiple versions—our platform ensures everyone stays on the same page.

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Draft Generation

Utilize advanced Artificial Intelligence to generate preliminary drafts from existing translations. This reduces the workload and speeds up the translation process, giving translators a head start.

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Community Checking

Launch modular Scripture Community Checking campaigns to gather extensive feedback quickly. This tool ensures that translations are thorough and accurate by involving community members in the verification process.

Photo Credits

Banner image / A row of vernacular scriptures published for PNG languages / Photograph by Lisa Vanden Berg / Copyright 2009 / CC:BY

Above left / Heinrich Mateak (left) and Caleb Gamule (right) are members of the Kapingamarangi Bible translation committee. Caleb is the chairman of the translation committee. / Photograph by Heather Pubols / Copyright Wycliffe Global Alliance 2013 / CC:BYNCND 4.0

Above center / Women translate the Old Testament. / Photograph by Marc Ewell / Copyright Wycliffe Global Alliance 2015 / CC:BYNCND 4.0

Above right / A man reads his Bible off his mobile phone in a village church. / Photograph by Marc Ewell / Copyright Wycliffe Global Alliance 2015 / CC:BYNCND 4.0

Common Questions

What do I need to be able to use Scripture Forge Drafting?
The drafting tool uses parallel texts that you’ve already translated to extend your translation in the same style to new rough drafts for other books.

How do I allow members of the language community to provide feedback on the translation?
Click on the Share icon while editing a translation or from the Questions & answers page to invite others to join.

How do I import questions for community checking?
In addition to creating questions individually, you can import questions from a spreadsheet and from Transcelerator.

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