Clinical Trial Translation Services

Each of our clients is matched with a Conversis project team. This team takes the time to learn about your business, workflows, and goals, and will also be the team that evaluates each new project. They will discuss briefs with you, advise on approach, provide quotes, and manage the projects once they go ahead. Depending on a given project’s content and purpose, they may advise an AI-assisted workflow, or a strictly human one. Either way, content will be finalized by our expert linguists. For more detailed information on human and AI workflows, please visit our Solutions page.

We evaluate each new project and create a quote clearly outlining costs and timelines. Costs depend on factors like content type, language combinations, and service level. If you would like to understand costs for the type of work you do, please get in touch and we can produce a no-obligation quote for you.

We create a quote for each new project request, in which we include clear timeline details. Turnaround times (TATs) vary depending on a number of factors, including volumes, language combinations, content type or complexity, and service levels. To give you an idea, a standard TAT is around 2,000 words per day for translation and 1,000 words per hour for review. But we know how tricky clinical research timelines can be, especially when it comes to submission. So, if you have a hard deadline, please let us know as soon as possible. Even if it’s particularly tight, we can almost always find a way.

When searching for a translation partner for your clinical research materials, there are a number of things to look out for.

• Qualifications & experience
  Does your potential translation partner have experience in clinical research? Do they understand the sector, the challenges you are facing, and what you will need from them in terms of process and outcomes? Are their linguists specialists in clinical research, or generalist translators doing their best to understand your content?

• Ability to do it all
  Will your potential partner be able to cover the full range of materials and media you need to translate? Or will you need to go to multiple different partners, e.g., for services like voiceover or DTP?

• Coverage & cultural expertise
  If an average project contains e.g., 50 languages, will your translation partner be able to handle them all equally? Do they have people in those countries and communities with the relevant expertise?

• Quality processes
  Can you have confidence that your translation partner has all appropriate measures and checks in place to provide the quality you need? Do they have formal processes and certifications to prove it?

Unlike generalist agencies, who work with generalist linguists, Conversis only works with life sciences specialists. All our linguists go through a rigorous vetting and testing process before being added to our network.

We also follow a minimum one-step review process, meaning that – following translation – content is always reviewed by a second, independent linguist with the same qualifications as the translator. Where AI workflows are implemented, this is managed by sector experts and content is reviewed by our linguists.

After content is reviewed, it then goes through the Conversis QA process, where our internal team conducts further checks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and adherence to client specifications. We also use translation memory and glossaries to ensure consistency of language within and across projects.