Another year, another catalogue and promo
materials to release in your standard 5 languages, another headache.
Translation resources and documents scattered across the company, know-how
inevitably lost after your ex-colleagues left for other positions, tight
deadlines and even tighter budgets. Translation and localization costs can
become pretty costly if the process is not efficiently managed. Here, we will
let you in on a little secret how to deal with lost resources.
Translation memory
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Create your own translation memories
So back to the situation above. If you lost your
resources or have not even had a translation memory before, it is time to make
one. idioma offers this as service to many companies. We create memories based
on existing documents, no matter whether you have them in Word, desktop
publishing formats or even only PDF. We have developed tools that our native,
human translators use to save source and target segments together, effectively
creating useful TMs. With such memories as a base, translation of
your documents will go faster, become cheaper and the text in your documentation
will become more consistent.
Our TM tools can save bilingual text segments in
different formats, such as TMX, native Trados, or the standardized Xliff format
so the output is useful and compatible with the TM systems you use. Efficiency
is something we emphasize, and creating memories is no exception. When aligning
text from file formats such as Word, Excel, InDesign and FrameMaker, you can
count on a speed of around 25,000 words/hour. With PDF files, the process is a
little slower due to more complicated text extraction, but usually we align
around 10-15,000 word/hour.
Keep your TM error-free
Once you've got your translation memory created,
you should also rely on professionals for maintenance of the same. It is very common
that TMs get outdated and unsynchronized with your current documents. Even if
you have gone to the effort of creating a translation memory, it may not
include all additions, changes, etc. that your published documents have
undergone. Instead of trying to update your memory and performing tedious TM
maintenance "manually", our TM service offers a smarter and much
quicker way to keep your TM up to date. Simply send us your original and
translated DTP files and we will create bilingual text files that can be copied
into your existing TM to replace old outdated segments. At the same time we can also run an analysis to
detect possible errors, such as number mistakes, untranslated text, text consistency,
glossary misuse, etc.
Innovative solution for innovative companies
Outsourcing translation memory creation and
maintenance service is a modern, innovative way of approaching the translation
needs of a company. Large companies, including manufacturers and distributors demanding
technical translation (multilingual documentation, catalogues, etc.), can
benefit enormously by saving working hours lost on preparing and managing the
translation process. If you have access to already published documents in many
languages, use them to your advantage by converting them to a TM, the start
saving on every project you translate.
Would you like to learn more about how to get translation
memories built for you and reduce costs significantly?
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