Isabella BeckerSenior Language Specialist
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Senior Language Specialist since 2000

From EnglishGermaninto Brazilian Portuguese.

Translation, post-editing, MTPE and AI evaluation for global brands and the agencies that serve them. 26 years. 25 million words. Delivered from the Bavarian Alps, seven days a week.

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  • EN ⇄ PT-BR
  • DE ⇄ PT-BR
25M+
words translated
26
years in the profession
40+
global brands
7
days a week, CET

Services

Language work at enterprise level.

Brazilian Portuguese is my native language. German and English are the languages I live and work in.

EN · DE → PT-BR

Translation and localization

Software and UI, websites, technical documentation and marketing. Also Portuguese into English and German.

LLM · MTPE · LLM-PE

AI evaluation and post-editing

Rating and ranking model output, hallucination and bias checks, annotation, dataset validation. Machine output brought to human quality.

EN · DE · PT-BR

Subtitling and transcription

Subtitles that keep the speaker's tone within reading-speed limits. Verbatim or clean-read transcription with the full range of Brazilian accents.

EN → PT-BR

Editorial translation

Books on religion, spirituality and personal development, translated or post-edited to publication standard. Post-layout proofreading and Amazon KDP.

Quality assurance

LQA, reviews and consistency checks with Xbench and your CAT tool's QA.

Terminology

Glossaries and termbases built and kept consistent across large programmes.

Software localization

UI strings, tagged files and i18n issues handled inside your workflow.

Linguistic annotation

Intent, entities, tone and ambiguity labelled for AI training data.

Industries

Subjects I know, not only languages.

Twenty-six years of specialised work. Each field below comes with its own terminology, rules and readers.

Medical devices

Instructions for use, user manuals, device software and training for surgical robotics, endoscopy and diagnostics. Here a wrong term is a patient-safety problem.

ClientsMedicaroid (hinotori™ surgical robot), Becton Dickinson, Abbott, Johnson & Johnson

Pharmaceuticals and life sciences

Patient information, clinical and regulatory documents, laboratory products and training for pharmaceutical teams.

ClientsPfizer, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Invitrogen, BASF

Automotive

Owner's manuals, infotainment and app interfaces, service documentation and marketing for premium brands, often straight from the German source.

ClientsBMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Honda

Industrial machinery

Operating and maintenance manuals, safety instructions and control software for heavy equipment and automation.

ClientsCaterpillar, John Deere, Rockwell Automation, Yamazaki Mazak, Siemens

Software, cloud and IT

UI strings, help centres, developer documentation and release notes, translated inside the files they live in.

ClientsAmazon & AWS, Microsoft, Google, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, JetBrains, GitHub

Artificial intelligence

LLM evaluation, prompt and response review, AI post-editing and annotation of training data for enterprise AI programmes.

ClientsAmazon (Alexa), Apple

Games and apps

In-game text, interfaces, store listings and marketing for games and mobile apps, with character limits and placeholders respected.

ClientsEpic Games (Fortnite), Unity, Minecraft, ClassPass, Mindbody, TikTok

Medicine, psychiatry and psychology

Clinical texts, mental-health content, therapy materials and books from psychoanalytic, Jungian, cognitive and neuroscience approaches.

ClientsPublishers, clinics and training institutes

Music and sound

Lyrics, audio software, studio and equipment manuals, and content for music media.

ClientsYamaha, Apple

Self-development, religion and spirituality

Books and courses translated for publication, with sacred and doctrinal vocabulary handled correctly. Certified Virtologist, Instituto Virtudes.

ClientsPublishers and authors, Amazon KDP

E-learning

Online courses, LMS content and corporate training, including subtitles and voice-over scripts.

ClientsGlobal technology and life-science companies

Retail and e-commerce

Product catalogues, listings and campaigns written for Brazilian shoppers.

ClientsIKEA, Amazon product catalogues

A translator who also writes code.

I build websites and web apps myself. I know what a tag, a placeholder or a variable does before I translate around it, so the files come back working, not just translated.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • JSON
  • XML
  • XLIFF
  • YAML
  • Markdown
  • PO files
  • Regex
  • Git and GitHub
  • Tags and placeholders

During our collaboration, she has demonstrated to be a good and trustable professional linguist.

Centific SpainSenior Vendor Management Specialist at Centific Spain (then Pactera Technology Spain), on six years of English into Brazilian Portuguese translation and review (2018)

9 clients on ProZ.com say they would work with me again, including TransPerfect and SB Traduction. See the reviews

Clients

Brands whose words I have carried into Portuguese.

Content translated, reviewed or evaluated over 26 years, in medical devices, automotive, software, AI and games.

  • Amazon
  • AWS
  • Apple
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Oracle
  • SAP
  • Siemens
  • Adobe
  • Cisco
  • GitHub
  • JetBrains
  • Autodesk
  • Huawei
  • TikTok
  • Xiaomi
  • Pfizer
  • Novartis
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Abbott
  • Becton Dickinson
  • Invitrogen
  • Medicaroid
  • BMW
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Porsche
  • Honda
  • Caterpillar
  • John Deere
  • Rockwell Automation
  • Yamazaki Mazak
  • BASF
  • Yamaha
  • Epic Games
  • Unity
  • Minecraft
  • IKEA
  • ClassPass
  • Mindbody

Most projects came through agency partners, and many were delivered under NDA. Logos are trademarks of their owners and are shown only to indicate the content I have worked on.

Agency partners

Long-term collaborations with the agencies that run global localization programmes.

  • TransPerfect
  • Lionbridge
  • RWS
  • Acolad
  • Centific
  • OneForma
  • Rubric
  • Acclaro
  • GlobaLoc
  • SB Traduction
  • TextTrans
  • Langshare
  • Tradupla
  • Milengo

Tools

CAT tools, TMS platforms, QA and machine translation engines I work in every day.

  • memoQ
  • Trados Studio
  • XTM Cloud
  • ATMS
  • Phrase
  • Smartling
  • Smartcat
  • Crowdin
  • Wordfast
  • Across
  • Passolo
  • Xbench
  • Subtitle Edit
  • DeepL
  • Google Translate
  • Microsoft Translator
  • Amazon Translate
  • Transit NTX

About

Born in Brazil. Trained in São Paulo. Living in the Bavarian Alps for more than twenty years.

I graduated in Translation and Interpreting (English and Portuguese) and in Teacher Education at Universidade Ibero-Americana in 1999, and have worked as a full-time translator since 2000.

Over the years the work moved from agency projects in IT and marketing to long-running localization programmes in medical devices, automotive and software. In recent years much of it has been in AI: evaluating and post-editing large language model output for enterprise programmes.

German is my daily language, not a studied one. Brazilian Portuguese stays sharp because I work in it every day. I am also a certified Virtologist, which is why publishers send me books on religion, spirituality and personal development.

Isabella Becker
  • LanguagesBrazilian Portuguese (native), German, English
  • EducationBA Translation and Interpreting, BA Teacher Education, UNIBERO 1999
  • Based inGrainau, Bavaria, Germany
  • HoursCET, Monday to Sunday
Lake Eibsee and the Zugspitze in autumn
Grainau, BavariaAt the foot of the Zugspitze. One hour ahead of London, six ahead of New York.

Contact

Tell me about your project.

Language pair, content type and deadline are enough to start. I reply personally.