Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT Tools recommendations for English-Ukrainian
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Oksana
[quote]Oksana Kampov wrote:
My current circumstances would allow me to take up translation once again and as the translation software requires initial investment, I would like to get the most useful tool. [/quote]
I don't have any knowledge of Ukrainian, but since Ukrainian uses Cyrillic, it is my understanding that all of the major and minor off-line tools [1] should be able to handle Ukrainian. Presumably some of them may offer less useful fuzzy matching and glossary matching than others, but you should be able to find that out when you use the trial versions.
CAT tools typically don't include dictionaries. They do often include or work with spell-checkers, so you'll have to investigate which of the CAT tools have a Ukrainian spell-checker available. CAT tools can also connect to machine translation systems, so again, you'll have to investigate which MT systems offer Ukrainian, and then investigate which CAT tools can handle those MT systems. You often have to pay a fee to the MT service itself, if you choose to use it, which is not covered by the CAT tool's price.
[1] Trados (€855 perpetual, optional €225 upgrade every ± 2 years), MemoQ (€620 perpetual, optional €124 upgrade every year), Wordfast Pro (€480 x 50% for a 3-year subscription, free upgrades, €240 x 50% renewal), OmegaT (€0), CafeTran (€200 perpetual, free upgrades for 3 years)
Topic: CAT Tools recommendations for English-Ukrainian
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Oksana
[quote]Oksana Kampov wrote:
My current circumstances would allow me to take up translation once again and as the translation software requires initial investment, I would like to get the most useful tool. [/quote]
I don't have any knowledge of Ukrainian, but since Ukrainian uses Cyrillic, it is my understanding that all of the major and minor off-line tools [1] should be able to handle Ukrainian. Presumably some of them may offer less useful fuzzy matching and glossary matching than others, but you should be able to find that out when you use the trial versions.
CAT tools typically don't include dictionaries. They do often include or work with spell-checkers, so you'll have to investigate which of the CAT tools have a Ukrainian spell-checker available. CAT tools can also connect to machine translation systems, so again, you'll have to investigate which MT systems offer Ukrainian, and then investigate which CAT tools can handle those MT systems. You often have to pay a fee to the MT service itself, if you choose to use it, which is not covered by the CAT tool's price.
[1] Trados (€855 perpetual, optional €225 upgrade every ± 2 years), MemoQ (€620 perpetual, optional €124 upgrade every year), Wordfast Pro (€480 x 50% for a 3-year subscription, free upgrades, €240 x 50% renewal), OmegaT (€0), CafeTran (€200 perpetual, free upgrades for 3 years)