Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: I have been asked to provide a memory - how do I do this?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Ine
[quote]Ine Spee wrote:
I simply translated the document manually in Word, so I haven't used a CAT tool or anything. [/quote]
With most CAT tools (including some online ones) you can export a translation memory after you have done the translation... in the CAT tool. Since you didn't use a CAT tool to do the translation, you can't export a translation memory, and you're just going to have to tell your client that.
There are tools called "aligners" that can take a source text and target text and align them into a translation memory.
Aligners are most useful for freelance translators to gain an advantage from old translations. You can do alignment for a client, but aligners typically do not preserve formatting information, which your client might be hoping for. The aligner might also segment the file differently from how your client's preferred CAT tool segments it, which would result in lower fuzzy matches for the client, which a client would dislike.
Alignment takes a lot of time, since you have to check very carefully that the right sentence is lined up with the right sentence. Some aligners are partially or fully automated, but you'd still have to check the alignment manually just to make sure the aligner guessed correctly which sentence to match up with which sentence.
LF Aligner is probably the most well-known freeware aligner. It is an automated aligner, but it does have a rudimentary editor for checking misalignments.
[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
What you can do now is upload your source file into Smartcat or Phrase and paste your translation one segment after the other. ... Once done, you would be able to export your TM as a TMX file and send it to your client.[/quote]
Using this method (which I do not recommend), she'll also have to apply formatting for each segment. )-:
[Edited at 2023-10-18 11:54 GMT]
Topic: I have been asked to provide a memory - how do I do this?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Ine
[quote]Ine Spee wrote:
I simply translated the document manually in Word, so I haven't used a CAT tool or anything. [/quote]
With most CAT tools (including some online ones) you can export a translation memory after you have done the translation... in the CAT tool. Since you didn't use a CAT tool to do the translation, you can't export a translation memory, and you're just going to have to tell your client that.
There are tools called "aligners" that can take a source text and target text and align them into a translation memory.
Aligners are most useful for freelance translators to gain an advantage from old translations. You can do alignment for a client, but aligners typically do not preserve formatting information, which your client might be hoping for. The aligner might also segment the file differently from how your client's preferred CAT tool segments it, which would result in lower fuzzy matches for the client, which a client would dislike.
Alignment takes a lot of time, since you have to check very carefully that the right sentence is lined up with the right sentence. Some aligners are partially or fully automated, but you'd still have to check the alignment manually just to make sure the aligner guessed correctly which sentence to match up with which sentence.
LF Aligner is probably the most well-known freeware aligner. It is an automated aligner, but it does have a rudimentary editor for checking misalignments.
[quote]Stepan Konev wrote:
What you can do now is upload your source file into Smartcat or Phrase and paste your translation one segment after the other. ... Once done, you would be able to export your TM as a TMX file and send it to your client.[/quote]
Using this method (which I do not recommend), she'll also have to apply formatting for each segment. )-:
[Edited at 2023-10-18 11:54 GMT]