Public Education · K-12 + ASL
Translation for public school districts. 18+ community languages, ASL-aware.
Parent communications, IEPs, board meeting recordings, registration forms — translated across the actual languages your community speaks, including American Sign Language workflows and rare community languages.
Who uses Fily for public education
Public school districts, charter networks, education ESC/BOCES, and education-focused LSPs serving multilingual student populations. Our customers translate parent letters, IEPs, board meeting minutes and recordings, registration forms, ESSER plans, and community-wide communications.
What hurts today
- Districts often need 15+ languages including community languages with limited NMT support (Kunama, Karen, Bembe, Hmong, Mam, Q'eqchi').
- ASL deliverables require video interpretation workflow alongside text translation, with different provider chains.
- Parent letters, IEPs, and school board minutes share terminology that must stay consistent across documents and across grade levels.
- Scanned student records, lunch program forms, and immunization records arrive as image-only PDFs.
- Audio recordings of board meetings and public hearings need transcription + translation with timestamps.
- Budgets are public-sector — pricing transparency matters more than relationship selling.
How Fily fits this workflow
Rare-language support
55 source languages and 62 target languages, including ASL workflow integration, Kunama, Karen Ni, Bembe, Hmong, Kinyarwanda, and Indigenous American languages.
Glossary cascade across documents
District-specific term bases (IEP, ESSER, FERPA) get enforced consistently across every document in the year — parent letters, board minutes, registration packets all use the same vetted terminology.
Audio + subtitles for board meetings
Multi-speaker board recordings get diarized transcription, translated, and delivered as SRT for video captioning or DOCX for record-keeping.
OCR for legacy records
Scanned IEPs, immunization forms, and student files OCR cleanly. Output as searchable PDF or DOCX.
Transparent per-word pricing
Public-sector procurement gets clear per-word rates. No seat licenses, no opaque enterprise quotes that go to committee for 6 months.
Shipped, not roadmapped
Pipelines we built for work like this
Real public education workflows that didn't fit a standard pipeline — so we built one.
4-layer cascade
Multi-tenant glossary cascade
An LSP with 40+ end-clients needed org-level terms, client-level overrides, and sub-client (brand) overrides to all stack — without re-attaching glossaries to every job.
A 4-layer cascade: system → org → client → sub-client → job. Forbidden terms inherit and override, style guides cascade, and every future job picks up the right rules automatically.
Golden TM · auto-build
A translation memory that builds itself
Clients wanted TM leverage but didn't want to maintain a TM — exporting, cleaning and re-importing TMX after every project is a job nobody has time for.
Every confirmed segment is promoted into the organization's Golden TM automatically, scoped per client and language pair, and reused on every future job. Reviewer edits in the dashboard feed straight back in. Exact matches then cost $0.
TMX Aligner
Turn a finished translation into reusable TM
A new client had years of past translations but no translation memory — just source documents and their finished translations sitting in folders, in no bilingual format.
The aligner takes a source file and its existing translation — two plain files — and returns a ready-to-use TMX plus an extracted glossary. Day-one leverage from an archive that was doing nothing.
cross-file consistency
One term, one translation, across the batch
In a 50-file client project, the same English sentence would come back translated two or three different ways across files — and reviewers had to catch it manually, file by file.
A tag-safe consistency pass runs across the entire batch, flags every source span with divergent targets, and unifies them in one click from the review editor — without touching inline tags.
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