Audinate’s products include hardware that audio and video equipment manufacturers incorporate into their products to facilitate networked audio as well as software used by installers, sound engineers, musicians and IT professionals.
Audinate was founded with a vision to revolutionize professional and commercial audio for the 21st century. Audinate’s award winning Dante audio-over-IP networking solution is the worldwide leader and used extensively in the professional live sound, commercial installation, broadcast, public address, and recording industries. Dante replaces and simplifies traditional analog audio cables by transmitting perfectly synchronized audio signals across large distances, to multiple locations at once, using nothing more than an Ethernet cable. Audinate is headquartered in Australia and has regional offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Dante technology powers products available from hundreds of leading audio partners around the world.
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Mike Wills Senior Digital Marketing Manager
Audinate’s products include hardware that audio and video equipment manufacturers incorporate into their products to facilitate networked audio as well as software used by installers, sound engineers, musicians and IT professionals to configure systems and integrate PCs and Macs into Dante networks.
As the defacto standard in audio networking, Dante-enabled equipment is used extensively across the globe. Marketing, training and product information needs to reach current and future customers. The company website, www.audinate.com, is the hub for all that information, so localizing key parts of the site was the top priority for Sr. Digital Marketing Manager, Mike Wills. Spanish, Japanese and Simplified Chinese were selected for the first phase of the project after being identified as having the highest potential to open up Dante to new markets. Wills explains, “One of the reasons that system integrators, sound engineers and IT departments design systems with Dante audio networking, is that they have over 1000 Dante-enabled products to choose from and products are interoperable across brands. And while most of the largest pro audio companies can be found in our list of over 350 manufacturers that have licensed Dante, we know that localizing our site and materials will help more manufacturers and users take advantage of audio networking and this AV/IT convergence.”
Audinate provides extensive product information, training material and support documentation for manufacturers, their distribution channel, integrators and the various types of end-users. With this much content and working with three additional languages, the need for smooth systems to manage the workflow was critical. “Our website platform, Drupal, has modules available that provide extensive capabilities for automating the export of text to localize and import of the new text. Some of the firms I interviewed had amazing integrations with Drupal, but their setup and maintenance costs surpassed our budget before we even translated a single page. I was afraid we were going to end up with incredibly time-consuming processes to manage the work or huge integration fees!” says Wills. The audio industry has a vocabulary that provides challenges to translation providers and audio networking adds an additional layer of complexity. Audinate needed a provider grounded in audio and able to build a vocabulary that accommodated these newer concepts. “I didn’t want to have to train-up a standard translation agency, and my experiments with machine translation were just laughable!” When Audinate’s VP of Marketing met ATL’s Managing Director at an audio trade show, it seemed their concern about the industry vocabulary may be resolved.
Audinate’s business is growing rapidly, so increases in website traffic are expected. But traffic from people browsing in Japanese, Chinese and Spanish increased over 25% ABOVE the rate of other traffic. This is after completion of only the first phase of the project. “We are very excited about the increased interest from these markets. We’ve recently opened a new office in Hong Kong and the team there is happy to have the support of materials in Chinese.” says Wills and he adds “Our spending on each translation project provides two types of return. First, we get the immediate benefit of growing and supporting a larger customer base, and second, we are also building our translation memory database at ATL. It’s like a dividend – we get significant discounts on phrases we’ve already had translated.” Audinate’s next project is translation of the Dante Certification program which offers beginning and intermediate training and certification online for those interested or working with Dante systems. “We’re working with ATL, of course. It’s an investment that’s paying off.”
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