Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Which CAT tool allows me to translate online content
Poster: Michael J.W. Beijer
Post title: Sounds like a job for CafeTran's (new & improved) Clipboard workflow!
[quote]Serena-M wrote:
I'm translating an online list of article descriptions on a website. It's long, with lots of repetitions. It has a proprietary system where I see the item to translate and input my translation directly. So I have no source document and I see the items one at a time.
I used to set up my own TM with excel but it's time consuming and the search function is awful.
Is there any CAT tool that allows me to translate bits of texts without having to create a text document for each item? (which works but is very time consuming).
Something that allows me to build my TM on the go.
Ideally it would work like this: I copy/paste the item that I need to translate into the CAT tool interface. It brings up matches from my TM. If there's no match, or if it needs editing I can make changes and store the new translation in the TM.
I've tried Trados clipboard translation thinking that it was the tool I needed, but I can't understand if I can input new translation, so far it only allows me to copy translations that are already in my TM, not to create new ones. (There seems to be a button to "save and add" but it's greyed out, and it only works when I choose to copy the source segment to the target - then it does add the new translation as an item in the TM, but it's useless since it's the same as the original text.
[/quote]
Hi Serena,
I think CafeTran has just what you are looking for! Have a look at it's recently redesigned clipboard workflow.
See e.g.:
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If you have any questions about it, ask in the CafeTran forum @ [url removed] or send the developer (Igor) an email @ [email removed]
Michael
[Edited at 2016-05-31 11:48 GMT]
Igor also recently made a good video showing how it works: [url removed]
[Edited at 2016-05-31 11:50 GMT]
Topic: Which CAT tool allows me to translate online content
Poster: Michael J.W. Beijer
Post title: Sounds like a job for CafeTran's (new & improved) Clipboard workflow!
[quote]Serena-M wrote:
I'm translating an online list of article descriptions on a website. It's long, with lots of repetitions. It has a proprietary system where I see the item to translate and input my translation directly. So I have no source document and I see the items one at a time.
I used to set up my own TM with excel but it's time consuming and the search function is awful.
Is there any CAT tool that allows me to translate bits of texts without having to create a text document for each item? (which works but is very time consuming).
Something that allows me to build my TM on the go.
Ideally it would work like this: I copy/paste the item that I need to translate into the CAT tool interface. It brings up matches from my TM. If there's no match, or if it needs editing I can make changes and store the new translation in the TM.
I've tried Trados clipboard translation thinking that it was the tool I needed, but I can't understand if I can input new translation, so far it only allows me to copy translations that are already in my TM, not to create new ones. (There seems to be a button to "save and add" but it's greyed out, and it only works when I choose to copy the source segment to the target - then it does add the new translation as an item in the TM, but it's useless since it's the same as the original text.
[/quote]
Hi Serena,
I think CafeTran has just what you are looking for! Have a look at it's recently redesigned clipboard workflow.
See e.g.:
[url removed]
[url removed]
[url removed]
[url removed]
If you have any questions about it, ask in the CafeTran forum @ [url removed] or send the developer (Igor) an email @ [email removed]
Michael
[Edited at 2016-05-31 11:48 GMT]
Igor also recently made a good video showing how it works: [url removed]
[Edited at 2016-05-31 11:50 GMT]