Translation tools
March 20, 2013 by admin
Modern era translators are constantly being faced with a whole arsenal of different translation tools. Translation tools is a common term for all the programs which a translator may find helpful during his work. Those are, for instance, software localisation tools, terminology management tools, machine translation tools, translation memory systems, electronic dictionaries and glossaries, analysis programs, project management programs and counting programs. The most known and widely used translation tools are Trados, Transit, MultiTerm, DejaVu and SDLX. These translation tools help us to improve text quality and standardise the terminology, however, one must be aware of the fact that they are only useful with certain types of texts. Due to the nature of the texts which I translate most of the time (lots of repetitions, specific terminology) different translation tools often prove to be very helpful and time-saving.