Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: the best and easiest CAT for the newbie
Poster: Georgie Scott
Post title: Termbases
When you have repetitive texts, termbases (in addition to translation memories) can also be handy; you save the translation of a word and then just have to press enter the next time it comes up, a little like T9 on mobile phones.
If you get Trados Studio, you will need to buy MultiTerm separately to use this feature. If you get MemoQ, I'm pretty sure this feature is included. That said, I still prefer Studio to MemoQ.
This process is a little more complicated than I'm making it sound and it would be worth looking for a video tutorial online to see how it works, but it does save time when you have a text that says "passionate" hundreds of times, for example. CAT tools will also slow you down in the short-term. The savings are made in the long term, once you get used to them.
Topic: the best and easiest CAT for the newbie
Poster: Georgie Scott
Post title: Termbases
When you have repetitive texts, termbases (in addition to translation memories) can also be handy; you save the translation of a word and then just have to press enter the next time it comes up, a little like T9 on mobile phones.
If you get Trados Studio, you will need to buy MultiTerm separately to use this feature. If you get MemoQ, I'm pretty sure this feature is included. That said, I still prefer Studio to MemoQ.
This process is a little more complicated than I'm making it sound and it would be worth looking for a video tutorial online to see how it works, but it does save time when you have a text that says "passionate" hundreds of times, for example. CAT tools will also slow you down in the short-term. The savings are made in the long term, once you get used to them.