Rafa Lombardino has also produced some short videos that explain how CAT tools work.įor more posts of interest on CATs, please see the relevant section on the Interesting Articles for Translators & Interpreters page on this blog. Lastly, Simon Akhrameev has reviewed the free online MateCat tool. Francesco Pugliano has also compared CAT tools in easy-to-understand tables. Emma regularly writes about CAT tools, so please check her blog for more articles of interest. A collaborative CAT tool, SmartCAT streamlines the translation process by allowing the translator, editor, and other contributors to work and collaborate in real time. You might find it useful to read the following posts on CATs: Percy Balemans’ article ‘The usefulness of CAT tools’ Claire Cox’s comparison of ‘Wordfast Classic and Trados Studio 2014′ Emma Goldsmith’s comparisons of SDL Trados Studio and Déjà Vu, and SDL Trados Studio and memoQ. Please see the Software Comparison Tool on for a more complete list of CATs with details of their features, ratings and reviews. The cloud-based CAT tools provide an open free API: an application programming. There are also cloud-based CATs, such as MateCat, Liltand SmartCAT. A CAT program is not a substitute for a translator, but his or her tool. Other CATs are OmegaT, which is free, and Déjà Vu. Customers can interpret historical data and tweak specific settings to achieve better outcomes over time. In effort to continously improve translation quality, Smartling measures every input and automatically surfaces errors when they are introduced. Their TMs should be compatible with each other. Configured to reduce work and improve velocity. SDL Trados Studio, memoQ and Wordfastare probably the three best known programs. There are a number of CAT tools on the market. A CAT tool will only offer a translation suggestion if there is a phrase or sentence that is exactly the same or highly similar in its translation memory (TM). It’s not Machine Translation (MT), which instead attempts to provide a translation for the text as a whole by converting (often unsuccessfully) the words from one language into another. The software helps translators work more efficiently by remembering previous translation choices. A CAT tool is a Computer-Assisted (or -Aided) Translation program.
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