Poll: Have any of your regular clients introduced new steps in their translation process in the last year? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have any of your regular clients introduced new steps in their translation process in the last year?".
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No change whatsoever, no new steps, business as usual...
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:11
Spanish to English
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Billing requirements. More hoops to jump through.
| | | | | other - who is the translator, to have a translation process? | Sep 25, 2019 |
It sounds kind of odd, to think of a client, who is not the translator, having a translation process, when they're not the ones doing the translation. I guess what is meant is the process that they have in place to procure, receive, and pay for a translation?
With end clients, I get a lot more pictures "sent by my X-phone", a few payments via the phone, quicker responses again because of the phone being at hand wherever they go. For pickups I no longer give directions since eve... See more It sounds kind of odd, to think of a client, who is not the translator, having a translation process, when they're not the ones doing the translation. I guess what is meant is the process that they have in place to procure, receive, and pay for a translation?
With end clients, I get a lot more pictures "sent by my X-phone", a few payments via the phone, quicker responses again because of the phone being at hand wherever they go. For pickups I no longer give directions since everybody seems to have GPS, and some seem to use their phones as a kind of doorbell when they get there.
Agency clients operate about the same. One has just gone from mailing cheques to electronic transfer.
I cannot talk about "their" translation process, because I'm the one doing the translation. I haven't introduced any new steps in my process, that I can think of... ▲ Collapse
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Mario Freitas 
Brazil
Local time: 18:11
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Yes, a couple | Sep 25, 2019 |
Right now I can remember one client that thankfully moved from GTM to MemoQ and changed the entire process (improved it a lot, AMOF), and one that started using Plunet for invoicing purposes. But there were certainly others I can't recall right away. We (individuals and companies) are all constantly changing, most of the time for better, and this may add or suppress a few steps on the way.
| | | | Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
United States
Local time: 13:11
Spanish to English
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My biggest client has streamlined their invoicing system. Now, I just click on "Accept" when I agree to do the job, and once I deliver it, the payment is processed automatically, usually within the week. Before, their system was extremely cumbersome. This is a huge relief.
On the other hand, they are also in the process of introducing a new "statistical" machine translation system that I'm more than a bit skeptical about because the sources for the system (corpora of past translatio... See more My biggest client has streamlined their invoicing system. Now, I just click on "Accept" when I agree to do the job, and once I deliver it, the payment is processed automatically, usually within the week. Before, their system was extremely cumbersome. This is a huge relief.
On the other hand, they are also in the process of introducing a new "statistical" machine translation system that I'm more than a bit skeptical about because the sources for the system (corpora of past translations) were often of very poor quality. I'm already seeing some scary results.
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| | | | mona elshazly
Egypt
Local time: 23:11
Member (2016)
Italian to Arabic
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They introduced new instructions as regards the usage of Trados.
| | | | Kay Denney
France
Local time: 22:11
French to English
One of them has started using MT and so I'm getting less work from them since I refused to proofread it.
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Nikolay Novitskiy
Russian Federation
Local time: 02:11
Member (2018)
English to Russian
Some of my clients bagan sending me automated Xbench reports after the job is done. They have a lot of false-positives, and I avoid working with them now. Commenting this rubbish takes a lot of time
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