Translating Your Profile

Pro actors can have the two written parts of their profile, the Mini Bio and the More About Me text, automatically translated into the other languages enCAST is published in. A casting director browsing the site in Italian reads your profile in Italian, one in Athens reads it in Greek, and search engines can find you in every language we offer.

How it works #

• On the Edit Profile page (Basic Info tab), tell us which language your profile is written in and tick the translation box.
• Your texts are then translated automatically, one language at a time. New translations usually start appearing within a few hours.
• Whenever you edit your original text, every translation is redone from the new version, so the languages never drift apart.
• Anyone browsing in a language we have not translated your profile into yet simply sees your original text.

The small print, in plain words #

The translations are made by machine, using an AI translation service, and only because you asked: ticking the box is your consent for us to send your Mini Bio and More About Me text to that service for the sole purpose of translating them. You can withdraw that consent at any time by unticking the box, and your translations will no longer be shown.

Machine translation has become very good, but it is not a human translator. The odd phrase may come out clumsy, and an industry term may occasionally be rendered strangely in a language we cannot check by hand. For that reason we cannot take responsibility for the accuracy of the translated versions, or for any misunderstanding or consequence that arises from reading one. The text you wrote yourself is always the authoritative version of your profile, and it is always what is shown to anyone browsing in your own language.

Getting the best results #

• Write your original in clear, complete sentences. Plain writing translates beautifully; wordplay and slang travel less well.
• Names of people, productions and companies are kept exactly as you wrote them.
• If a translation reads badly, the fix is usually to make the original sentence simpler and save: everything is regenerated from the new text. And if you would rather not be translated at all, just untick the box.