Hi Everyone!

As we are wrapping up 2019, we would like to thank each one of you for all your contribution and help with improving Waze Localization every day!

It has been a year since the Localization community joined our family and integrated with all other Waze Communities, and together we accomplished great things!

• 10 new TTS voices have been opened!
  • Hungarian (Lotti)
  • Danish (Sofie)
  • Norwegian (Eva)
  • Finnish (Tuula)
  • Hebrew (Sivan Female)
  • Romanian (Simona)
  • Czech (Eliska or Elizabeth)
  • Swedish (Anna)
  • Portuguese (Amalia)
  • Slovakian (Gertruda)

A special thanks to kumiankka, harriv, Proffa71, ranttine, foxitrot, botika, pulsarxp, marcedli, vequalsdividedt, Szata76, szili17, vtibi, zsezo, andrei_r0, dacianova, spookyx, ma5jkl, porubcan, guri211, vlado_s,vitj, bures, avozetta, SverkerN, antigerme, davipt, delfim, Matosplay, goncalovm76, Karstunen, Keihin, Dev0 and shmupi for the outstanding collaboration, we could not have made it without you!

• 6 new languages have been opened for UI translation in Transifex!
  • Georgian
  • French Belgium
  • Albanian
  • Latgalian
  • Burmese
  • Guarani

• We added all TTS languages to be tested in the WME

We would like to reward our top 2019 localizers and give them the Localizer badge!
Please find below the list of top localizers that made more than 3,000 edits in transifex this year!
Please reply in this thread or by PM, if you would like to have the localizer badge as the primary badge in the forum.



We 'd like to wish you a happy new year and stay tuned, as we have exciting plans for 2020!

Tamar on behalf of the community team