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Best software for an internal translation department
Thread poster: Viktoriia Shiriaeva
Viktoriia Shiriaeva
Viktoriia Shiriaeva
Italy
Local time: 20:11
German to Russian
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Jul 11, 2018

Hi all, I work in a small language department of a big IT-company in fashion industry. As the company wants to grow internationally, we need to create the whole translation chain within the company. At the moment we are a team of two translators, translating mainly into English (and sometimes into French). So I was wondering if somebody could share experience about which CAT tool is the best one (at price-quality level) for our department at this stage. We need to work on two different devices a... See more
Hi all, I work in a small language department of a big IT-company in fashion industry. As the company wants to grow internationally, we need to create the whole translation chain within the company. At the moment we are a team of two translators, translating mainly into English (and sometimes into French). So I was wondering if somebody could share experience about which CAT tool is the best one (at price-quality level) for our department at this stage. We need to work on two different devices at the same time and to be able to share and update TMs and Glossaries simultaneously (it would be great to be able also to share the TMs and Glossaries with the whole company in read-only mode). Thank you! ▲ Collapse
 
Marissa Aguayo Gavilano
Marissa Aguayo Gavilano  Identity Verified
Peru
English to Spanish
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Are you open to cloud? Jul 11, 2018

If you are open to using a cloud solution, I would recommend SmartCat. The company can create an account for the translation department and each of you can have a user account with different levels of access. You can create and manage glossaries and TMs and if you can invite your translators to use the platform to translate the files. It's worth a try because it's free.
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 19:11
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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@Viktoriia Jul 11, 2018

Some of my customers (fashion and food industry) use XTM. It’s quite easy to use unless your text is full of bold, italic, underline, etc. (these codes tend to slow the process). You can try it for free for 30 days (https://xtm.cloud/)

Good luck!
 
John Di Rico
John Di Rico  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 20:11
Member (2006)
French to English
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Free TM Jul 12, 2018

Another free one is Wordfast Anywhere: wee.freetm.com

It allows you to share TMs and glossaries as well allows non-translators on your team to access glossaries or the TM (for concordance searches) in read-only mode.

Best,
John
 
Milan Condak
Milan Condak  Identity Verified
Local time: 20:11
English to Czech
Better than best is without typo Jul 12, 2018

John Di Rico wrote:

wee.freetm.com



www.freetm.com

And can be localized (is localized into some languages).

Milan
 
Mikhail Popov
Mikhail Popov
Montenegro
Local time: 20:11
English to Russian
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NDA Jul 13, 2018

All these cloud-based options are good and free of charge (usually). The only issue is that all your translations will be accessed by other people that has no real responsibility for keeping them safe.
The only "really safe" option is server-based CAT tool, such as MemoQ or DejaVu, when the server will be installed in your office. But server-based versions are expensive.
We are using the stand-alone versions and exchange TM files through network folders. Archaic for sure. But it work... See more
All these cloud-based options are good and free of charge (usually). The only issue is that all your translations will be accessed by other people that has no real responsibility for keeping them safe.
The only "really safe" option is server-based CAT tool, such as MemoQ or DejaVu, when the server will be installed in your office. But server-based versions are expensive.
We are using the stand-alone versions and exchange TM files through network folders. Archaic for sure. But it works ▲ Collapse
 
Didier Briel
Didier Briel  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 20:11
English to French
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OmegaT team projects are free Jul 13, 2018

Mikhail Popov wrote:
The only "really safe" option is server-based CAT tool, such as MemoQ or DejaVu, when the server will be installed in your office. But server-based versions are expensive.

OmegaT is free (as in beer and as in speech), and include team projects. If you use a Subversion server, you can have read-only users in addition to read/write users.

Didier
 
mikhailo
mikhailo
Local time: 22:11
English to Russian
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support Jul 13, 2018

If You haven't CAT geeks in IT dept, do not forget about tech support to solve different issues.
 


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