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LookAhead Feature – Towards Faster Translation Results

LookAhead Feature – Towards Faster Translation Results

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To facilitate your work on SDL Trados Studio 2017 SR1, SDL powered it with LookAhead feature. LookAhead is an in-memory lookup and retrieval mechanism which ensures that your translation search results are displayed fast when you activate a segment for translation. LookAhead technology radically improves the retrieval speed of TM search results, especially for long or complex source text. Once your source text is loaded in SDL Trados Studio , the application starts matching source text strings against the available translation resources (TMs, termbases or machine translation) in the background for the next two segments after the current one. As a result, you are instantly provided with translation hits for each segment that has matching translation results.

How to enable LookAhead?

  1. Go to File, and select Options.
  2. In the Options dialog, in the navigation tree, expand Editor.
  3. Select Automation.
  4. Under Translation Memory, select the Enable LookAhead checkbox.

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Adaptive MT – Trados 2017 New Feature

Adaptive MT – Trados 2017 New Feature

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SDL Trados Studio 2017 includes new generation of machine translation.

How does it work?

It allows users to adapt SDL Language Cloud machine translation with their own preferred style. There is a free plan and it offers these features:

  • 400,000 machine translated characters per month.
  • only access to the baseline engines, so this means no industry or vertically trained engines.
  • 5 termbases, or dictionaries, which can be used to “force” the engine to use the translation you want for certain words/phrases.
  • 1 Adaptive engine.
  • Translator… this is basically a similar feature to FreeTranslation.com except it’s personalized with your Engine(s) and your termbases.

How does it help?

  • Faster translation with smarter MT suggestions.
  • Easy to use and get started.
  • Completely secure – no data is collected or shared.
  • Unique MT output, personal to you.
  • Access directly within Studio 2017.
  • No translation memory needed to train the MT.
  • Automatic, real time learning – no pre-training required.

What are the available language pairs?

Uptill now, Adaptive MT is available in these language pairs:

English <-> French
English <-> German
English <-> Italian
English <-> Spanish
English <-> Dutch
English <-> Portuguese
English <-> Japanese
English <-> Chinese

For reference: https://www.sdltrados.com/products/trados-studio/adaptivemt/

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3 Tips for Preparing Video Game Localization Kit

3 Tips for Preparing Video Game Localization Kit

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An essential part of a video game localization project is planning. The first step in the planning process is to perform a pre-localization analysis to determine the budget and the depth of localization. For example, will the localization consist of translating only the marketing material and player’s manual or will it be a complete localization that will also translate the gaming text and modify the video in the game. Once the pre-localization has been completed, it is time to develop a video game localization kit. …

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