So you're running a news channel, where you update your users in real time.

You want to build the next BBC or the next CNN. You want to take it a step further and add translation to your news article, but you don't want to manually write that translation out. How do you achieve that, writing in one language and the article being translated into multiple languages based on the user's preference?

This is where AI comes in.

Why is AI the right choice for a Multilingual website?

AI is the perfect solution for multilingual websites because it offers real-time, accurate translations without the need for human translators for every language. It can handle multiple languages simultaneously, adapt to context, and maintain the original meaning of the content while being cost-effective.

AI has advanced significantly in recent years, enabling content to be translated with the cultural nuances unique to each language, which is crucial for resonating with diverse audiences, for a news website, this is exactly what you need, you want your readers to understand your tone and have the right nuance when it is translated to their native language.

AI enables content to be translated with the cultural nuances unique to each language, which is crucial for resonating with diverse audiences

So how do you take advantage of AI? To do this, you first need to have a Content Management System where you upload your news articles, and then your application frontend where you pull the news article from the CMS.

The need for A headless CMS

It is no news that Headless CMS is slowly taking over from traditional CMS so it will be natural to choose a headless CMS, and using a headless CMS contains the beautiful part of this application. You host your content on a headless CMS, entirely decoupled from your frontend and then you get these content which is the news article from your Headless CMS and you send it to AI, so it can translate, it translates and then you can replace the article on the frontend with the translated data. Your data doesn't change on the Headless CMS but only on the frontend thereby preventing mutation on your data.

Application Breakdown:

• Host content on Headless CMS: BCMS to host your content, ensuring it is decoupled from the frontend for flexibility and scalability. Store all Article content in the CMS ensuring a single source of truth.
• Fetch Content: Retrieve the desired news articles from the headless CMS (BCMS) to be processed for translation.
• User Preference Management: Implement a translation button to allow readers to select their preferred language for viewing articles.
• Integrate AI Translation Send the fetched content to an AI translation service(Gemini) for real-time translation into user-selected Language, and after that you receive the translated content in the response Gemini sends.
• Update Frontend Only: Replace the Article content on the frontend with the translated content returned By Gemini. This update doesn’t mutate the article content stored in BCMS

Sounds good? Let's get to it.