# Terminology & industry FAQs

Learn the language of localization and get practical answers about translation, i18n, AI, speech, media, data, quality, operations, and buying services.

- [Localization & language-technology terminology](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/industry-terminology/index.md): Plain-language definitions for 112 localization, i18n, translation, AI, data, speech, media, quality, workflow, tool, and commercial terms.
- [Translation, localization & transcreation FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/localization-translation/index.md): Practical answers about scope, language and market planning, translation workflows, transcreation, human review, context, feedback, and delivery.
- [AI translation vs. human expertise](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/ai-translation-human-quality/index.md): A practical decision guide to AI translation, human translators and reviewers, quality, pricing, language direction, post-editing, and full l10n QA cycles.
- [Internationalization & product engineering FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/internationalization-product/index.md): Answers about Unicode, locales, messages, BCP 47, RTL, complex scripts, locale-ready design, pseudolocalization, testing, and i18n ownership.
- [Multilingual AI, agents & MCP FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/multimodal-ai-agents/index.md): Practical answers about multilingual agents, MCP tools, locale state, permissions, retrieval, safety, evaluation, human escalation, and release evidence.
- [Speech recognition, TTS & voice AI FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/speech-voice/index.md): Answers about ASR, transcription, speech data, consent, WER, code-switching, TTS listening tests, pronunciation, voice agents, and monitoring.
- [Subtitling, captioning & accessibility FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/audiovisual-accessibility/index.md): Answers about subtitles, captions, SDH, dubbing, voice-over, audio description, scripts, timing, reading speed, recuts, media QC, and delivery.
- [Language data, annotation & evaluation FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/data-annotation-evaluation/index.md): Answers about multilingual data design, representativeness, annotation guidelines, pilots, agreement, adjudication, gold sets, provenance, and handoff.
- [Localization quality, review & testing FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/quality-testing/index.md): Answers about QA, QC, LQA, functional testing, MQM, severities, review calibration, sampling, automation, release gates, and defect learning.
- [Localization programs, tools & vendor FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/programs-tools-vendors/index.md): Answers about operating models, TMS selection, data exit, supplier structures, onboarding, SLAs, urgent work, metrics, AI governance, and observability.
- [Buying language services & freelance practice FAQs](https://admas.net/resources/faqs/buying-freelancing-rates/index.md): Answers about briefs, quotes, supplier evaluation, tests, statements of work, assets, sustainable rates, minimums, revisions, invoices, and AI terms.