Services

All my translation work involves three successive passes over the source text provided by the client: the translation itself (human or machine), editing, and final proofreading. You can therefore request only the editing and proofreading of an existing translation, or simply the proofreading of a French text.

Through these three core phases—and by giving you the choice between human and AI translation—I help you strike the perfect balance of precision and elegance for your project and budget, ranging from basic content safeguarding to full literary transcreation.

Thus, you can choose from four types of services:

• 100% human translation + editing + proofreading
• Machine translation (AI) + editing + proofreading (AI post-editing)
• Editing + proofreading
• Proofreading

The « Haute Couture »

The gold standard for your strategic content: brand image, publishing, humanities and social sciences, and high-value-added publications.

• The “blank page” method: Unlike AI, I do not generate words statistically likely to form a good translation; instead, I reconstruct the original text’s entire chain of reasoning. To do this, I start from scratch, deconstructing the English or Spanish syntax to rebuild a 100% French sentence architecture. This is the only way to unlock the rhythm and personality of your prose, firmly anchoring it within the French language and culture.
• The added value: A creation ex nihilo that breaks completely free from the source language structure—as well as from the arbitrary syntax generated by AI—ensuring absolute fluency and mitigating cognitive load for your reader.
• Rates: From €0.09 to €0.12+ per word (depending on technical complexity, literary level, conceptual density, necessary contextual research, critical and bibliographic apparatus, or the extent of transcreation).

The “Designer Ready-to-Wear” 

The performance standard when efficiency, speed of delivery, and budget control are your top priorities.

• Structural optimization: I leverage the latest technologies (DeepL Pro and/or AI with custom prompt engineering) to generate a machine translation of your content. I then perform a standard edit, keeping in mind that the translation originates from a machine rather than a human.

  The objective is to restore overall stylistic cohesion, excise source-language calques, and breathe the missing natural flow and humanity back into the machine-generated text. It is therefore not merely a matter of correcting translation errors, hallucinations, and other cross-cultural absurdities, but above all of making the text as seamless and enjoyable to read as possible.

• The result: A faithful, seamless, and natural text, vetted by an expert, yet retaining the AI-generated structure of most sentences to optimize your budget.
• Rates: From €0.05 to €0.07 per word (depending on technical complexity, literary style, conceptual density, required contextual research, or critical and bibliographic apparatus).

Do you already have a translated text AND its original version? Whether it stems from a human or machine translation, I step in to safeguard your content.

Because a pre-existing translation can conceal deep structural flaws beneath surface-level fluency, I never quote a flat rate without first analyzing the document.

• Free assessment: Analyzing the provided document’s quality against its original version.
• Scope of work: Evaluating the required level of intervention (light, moderate, or heavy).
• “Print-Ready” typographic guarantee: Beyond meaning, I guarantee a rigorous orthotypographic review (spelling, grammar, non-breaking spaces, punctuation, capitalization, etc.) to deliver documents ready for publication.

You have a French text that you suspect is unpublishable as is, or you are simply unsure of its quality. I will assess it and provide you with a tailored proofreading quote. 

My proofreading service guarantees a flawless final text by simultaneously combining linguistic rigor and stylistic fluency. This thorough process first eliminates all objective errors (spelling, grammar, syntax, homophone errors, etc.) while ensuring strict adherence to typographic standards (non-breaking spaces, punctuation, French quotation marks, and data formatting).

Beyond this textual hygiene, I refine the style to prune clunky phrasing and erase the “translated” feel: hunting down repetitions and gallicisms, replacing weak verbs with precise vocabulary, and enhancing overall readability. Finally, I perform a pragmatic check to validate the consistency of numerical data, the appropriateness of the language register, and, depending on your needs, the use of inclusive language.

Upon request, I can preserve the exact layout and formatting of your original file.

Alternatively, you can provide your own style sheet for me to apply to the target text.

Throughout the translation process, I keep the text’s ultimate destination in mind, particularly the characteristics of its readership. I carefully weigh every term and respect the source text’s language register (or adapt it, if you prefer). I thus deliver a seamless and natural French text, perfectly tailored to its intended purpose (book, article, website, advertisement, internal document, etc.).