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Software details
Price
Free for translators and agencies; clients pay based on content tiers
Cristian Sălăjan . Decent tool overall. Much improved from 10 years ago.
32 out of 36 found this review helpful.
1 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?
WORST translation tool ever
Review by
cclavel . To all free-lancers, run away while you can !!!!
This is a total rip-off for us.
Paiement of a project is based on degressive pricing (like Trados) BUT you only get the wordcount analysis AFTER you're done with the translation.
In the meantime :
1) the client can add and remove text while you're working on the project. That also includes text that you have translated. Since the wordcount is only provided afterwards, that means :
YOU WILL NOT GET PAID FOR ANY TEXT THAT YOU TRANSLATED BUT THAT WAS DELETED BY THE CLIENT BEFORE YOU COMPLETE THE ENTIRE TRANSLATION
2) The TM does not get updated as you go. Which means you have to retype any text that's not already in it. Therefore, if you have a sentence that's almost identical to a sentence you previously translated, you need to retype it entirely.
But remember, you get the analysis afterwards !
That is, after you have submitted your work and they have updated the TM !
So at that point, they will tell you that it's a strong match and they won't pay you much for it, ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT A MATCH WHEN YOU WERE TRANSLATING.
So, to sum up : as translators, we need to refuse to work on this platform, which is a total rip-off !
And we need to pass the word around, so that all translators know they are actually working for free when they use it !!!
If we give them enough bad publicity and refuse to use this tool, they will have to change it !!!
18 out of 18 found this review helpful.
2 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?
Slowest tool I have ever used
Review by
Paul Hambling . Whilst it is intuitive and easy to use. It is slow, clumsy and does not recognise matches very well. It will only recognise them once a string has been opened (which takes a long time) and then each string must be individually opened to be autocompleted and clicking through several hundred strings can take some serious time. If you do a lot of repetitive work it is not good at all. There is also no mass find and replace feature which when I do proof reading would be massively helpful. All in all it has nothing more established tools have that really makes the art of translation easier.
4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
2 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?
Meh.
Review by
Sanja_FR . Another online platform which brings absolutely nothing new, is tedious to use and time-consuming. How many useless clicks and copy-pasting must we endure with these online platforms? I suspect it's good for the productivity of PMs, but for linguists, absolutely not. Expect a decrease of around 30% of the productivity for a linguist, and apply a matching premium if you can.
4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
1 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?
Significantly lengthens work
Review by
Wojciech Sztukowski . Disaster. A CAT tool that does not display automatically any form of window with CAT matches (it requires CLICKING after each segment), does not number segments in the main view and makes returning to a given segment as hard as possible.
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