What the document-language column holds
The document-language column records what a tool says about the language of the working documents it produces: outlines, episode breakdowns, storyboard scripts, character descriptions. It is filled from a published rule or a named list. One vendor in the register has published either, and the rest of the column is blank. As of 2026-09-12.
| What the vendor publishes | How it is recorded | Why it is handled that way |
|---|---|---|
| A rule tying output to a setting | Recorded as a rule, with the setting it follows | A reader can apply it to any language in that setting without guessing |
| A named list of output languages | Recorded as a list, language by language | Each name can be checked against a market on its own |
| A sentence about supporting languages | Not recorded in this column | The word covers menus as often as it covers generated text |
| Nothing addressing output at all | Recorded as no list published | Silence is not a refusal, and is not filled in from the site column |
Inclusion rule. Statements a vendor could make about the language of its generated documents. The last row is the common case and is kept in the table for that reason. Order. Strongest published evidence first, silence last.
1A document is not a subtitle and not a menu
The documents in question are the ones a production actually edits: the breakdown of a script into episodes, the per-shot text a generator works from, the descriptions that keep a character looking the same across a series. They are read by people, rewritten by people, and passed between a writer and a producer who may not share a language with the vendor.
That makes their language a staffing question rather than a comfort one. A team working in Portuguese with an English breakdown is translating twice a day, every day of the production, and no amount of interface translation removes that work. It is the column a buyer feels first and the one vendors describe least.
2What counts as an answer, and why a sentence usually is not one
Two shapes fill this column. A list names the languages the documents come out in. A rule says which setting the language follows, so a reader can work out the answer for any language in that setting. One vendor in the register publishes such a rule, tying the generated working documents to the interface language the user has chosen.
A marketing sentence about supported languages fills nothing. The same word is used on the same sites for a translated help centre, and a reader cannot tell which claim is being made. Recording it would turn the column into a restatement of the site column, which is exactly the merge this register refuses.
3Why the blank cells are not inferred from the site column
It would be easy, and wrong, to assume that a tool offering its interface in twenty languages writes its breakdowns in twenty languages. Interface strings are content work done once. Generated prose is the model writing, and its quality and availability by language are set by training data and by the instructions the vendor sends with each call.
So a vendor with a wide site and no published output rule is recorded here as publishing no list, with its site count still standing in the column next door. The two numbers are allowed to disagree, because on most vendor sites they do.
4Where this column sits in the register
| Column | Tools naming a list |
|---|---|
| Dialogue language | 1 of 2 tools |
| Document language | 1 of 2 tools |
| Site language | 2 of 2 tools |
Inclusion rule. The three columns this register keeps apart. A column stays listed even where neither tool names a list, because an empty column is a finding about disclosure. Order. Alphabetical by column name.
- Output languagesScript analysis, episode outlines, storyboard scripts and character descriptions follow the interface language, across the same 15tied to the interface setting
- Output languagesNo public list (as of 2026-09-12)no list published
5Sources
Every entry in this column is read from the vendor page named beside it and carries the day it was read; the current state of all three columns is in the register, and the rule that lets a claim into a cell is on how counted. The other columns: Dialogue language, Site language. All three: the columns of the register.