ConveySolving the Pronoun Problem in Translation
Pronouns sound simple. They're one of the most common places translation tools quietly get things wrong — and the errors are often invisible unless you already speak both languages, because the sentence still reads as grammatically correct nonsense.
Where it actually breaks
Many languages don't map cleanly onto English's he/she/they. Thai's เธอ and เขา can each mean "you" or "they" depending on context that a literal translator often can't recover from a single sentence — get it wrong and a casual message about a friend turns into something about the person you're talking to, or vice versa. This isn't a rare edge case; it's a routine failure mode for tools that translate sentence-by-sentence without tracking who's being talked about.
What Convey does differently
Convey resolves pronoun ambiguity using surrounding context rather than defaulting to a guess — this shipped as a specific fix for Thai เธอ/เขา resolution, correctly distinguishing "you" from "they" instead of collapsing both into one. It's an ongoing area of work, not a solved-forever problem — isolated, context-free clauses are still genuinely hard for any translator, human or machine — but it's the kind of detail that's the difference between a translation that's technically parseable and one that actually says what you meant.
Why it matters
A pronoun error changes who a sentence is about. In a casual chat that's confusing; in a serious conversation it can be genuinely hurtful or embarrassing. Getting it right is unglamorous, detailed work — which is exactly why most translation tools don't bother.
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