Last Update 14 Feb 2015: Analysis based on SDL Trados Studio 2014 SP2 CU8 (11.2.4364.8)
It’s not unusual for people to see the word-count in a translation tool, compare it to the word-count in their authoring tool (usually MSWord..!) and then wonder why there are so many differences. Quite often I get sent documents and am asked to explain the differences which I often put down to a simple explanation; ultimately I think you need to be fair with this and Word is a simple word count, whereas a translation tool is designed to try and reflect the effort of the Translator. Studio even separates out the placeables and numbers so that the real effort becomes apparent and a fair way of measuring and charging for the work is achieved. How successful this is often depends on who’s asking and exactly what the source material is..!
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Category: CAT Tools
Computer Aided Translation Tools, sometimes referred to as the Translation Environment.
The ATA53 Studio presentation in San Diego…
As a follow on to the presentation I gave at the ATA this year, which was very well attended (photo courtesy of Wesley Budd) I thought it might be useful if I highlighted some of the things covered on the day.
The session itself was a little ad-hoc, deliberately so, because I wanted to make sure the content was relevant to the attendees, and because it wasn’t a getting started session. So I covered quite a lot of material, that judging by the number of people furiously scribbling down in their notebooks could use a little follow up!
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More useful resources… and multilingual TMs
In October 2012 the European Union (EU) agency ‘European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’ (ECDC) released a translation memory into the public domain containing 25 languages… the 23 official European languages plus Icelandic and Norwegian. This comes in a similar format to the DGT Multilingual Translation Memory of the Acquis Communautaire that I described here in this article but this time it’s much smaller… so we can look at how to handle a single TMX file that contains all of these languages in one file using Studio.
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It's a colourful world..!
The release of SP2 introduced a couple of nice enhancements to the filetypes that haven’t been publicised, but for the right use-case could be very useful indeed. These enhancements revolve around using colours..!
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Working with Variable Lists
Updated January 2015 : Also possible, and easier, to use the Variable Manager from the SDL OpenExchange (now RWS AppStore) for this.
I mentioned in a previous post that it wasn’t possible to import long variable lists into a Studio Translation Memory using the desktop version of Studio. You can do this with GroupShare, but the ability to do this in the desktop version is a work in progress.
Well that wasn’t quite true and as I’ve been preparing for some roadshows and events that are coming up this month I figured out a simple workaround using SDL Trados 2007 Suite.
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Studio on a tablet?
Just for a bit of fun, but with some potentially very useful applications, this article is about being able to translate using SDL Trados Studio 2011 on your tablet. Don’t believe me? I’ve prepared a quick video, very amateurish but screenshots simply aren’t good enough..!
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Glossaries made easy…
I think the majority of Translators using Studio would use MultiTerm more often if two things were evident. First the value of maintaining a Glossary and using it in Studio, and secondly an easy way to work with the MultiTerm termbase.
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Search and replace with Regex in Studio – Regular Expressions Part 3
The final article (in this introductory series anyway) on regular expressions in Studio is looking at how to use search and replace in Studio. This capability, to use regex to replace as well as search, will only be possible with the update release of SDL Trados Studio 2011 SP2 and later and it’s a very welcome addition to the toolset provided within Studio.
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Simple guide to working with Tags in Studio
There are a couple or three ways to add tags into your translation using Studio, and they can be applied using the mouse or using the keyboard. This article is just a simple introduction to using tags in Studio.
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Working with TMX from Studio
One of the more common questions I see on the forums today is “I’ve finished my translation and now my client is asking for a TMX. How do I get this from Studio?”.
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