Comments on: Don’t Fire The Translator … Yet http://tadej.eu/dont-fire-the-translator-yet Game development, Unity3D, iOS and web technologies Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:31:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Barry http://tadej.eu/dont-fire-the-translator-yet/comment-page-1#comment-1306 Barry Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:33:45 +0000 http://www.elasticlife.net/?p=157#comment-1306 Haha I like the picture, Translate server error lol Haha I like the picture, Translate server error lol

]]> By: verbi http://tadej.eu/dont-fire-the-translator-yet/comment-page-1#comment-1122 verbi Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:09:58 +0000 http://www.elasticlife.net/?p=157#comment-1122 For highly inflected languages like Slovenian, CATs are all right for maintaining consistency of style and terminology, but they leave a whole lot to be desired in terms of translation. In my personal experience, none of the tools can compare to Atril's DVX. As for prices coming down, I'd say this is a misconception, pushed by CAT software companies such as SDL as part of their (aggressive) marketing strategy, due to which giving away free copies of Across is the only smart way to go. Bear in mind that translation is not a commodity, it is a service, and at the end of the day, you always get what you pay for. For highly inflected languages like Slovenian, CATs are all right for maintaining consistency of style and terminology, but they leave a whole lot to be desired in terms of translation. In my personal experience, none of the tools can compare to Atril’s DVX.

As for prices coming down, I’d say this is a misconception, pushed by CAT software companies such as SDL as part of their (aggressive) marketing strategy, due to which giving away free copies of Across is the only smart way to go. Bear in mind that translation is not a commodity, it is a service, and at the end of the day, you always get what you pay for.

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]]> By: beth http://tadej.eu/dont-fire-the-translator-yet/comment-page-1#comment-836 beth Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:24:33 +0000 http://www.elasticlife.net/?p=157#comment-836 Yes, I agree, but I think that automated translation tools and ways to maintain the previous translations you've done are getting better and easier all the time. Look at Language Weaver (which invented statistical machine translation) and Across Systems (which holds more than 20% of the translation tools market in Europe and recently incorporated in the US) - they have combined their software to make it easy for customers to use both a centralized repository of all language resources and previous translations with machine translation, and I hear that the increase in productivity for localization providers who are using the combined solution is something like 300%! What's interesting is that Across even gives its software to freelance translators for free. (See http://www.my-across.net/en/index.html for proof of this.) I think that soon translators will have the tools to do a better job faster and, while those who use the technologies will benefit financially first, eventually it will make the costs come down on translation for businesses. But the volume of work will go up and we'll all make more money in the long run. There are lots of documents that my clients don't translate now due to cost, but they would like to and if the costs come down, they will. Yes, I agree, but I think that automated translation tools and ways to maintain the previous translations you’ve done are getting better and easier all the time. Look at Language Weaver (which invented statistical machine translation) and Across Systems (which holds more than 20% of the translation tools market in Europe and recently incorporated in the US) – they have combined their software to make it easy for customers to use both a centralized repository of all language resources and previous translations with machine translation, and I hear that the increase in productivity for localization providers who are using the combined solution is something like 300%! What’s interesting is that Across even gives its software to freelance translators for free. (See http://www.my-across.net/en/index.html for proof of this.) I think that soon translators will have the tools to do a better job faster and, while those who use the technologies will benefit financially first, eventually it will make the costs come down on translation for businesses. But the volume of work will go up and we’ll all make more money in the long run. There are lots of documents that my clients don’t translate now due to cost, but they would like to and if the costs come down, they will.

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