They should make it easier for me to do my job. For me, CAT tools should make my life easier. This also means I have tried a lot of CAT tools, and by now I have a preference. I need to be versatile, working across almost every available tool on the market free as well as licensed.
I have found such an experience with Lilt.Īs a modern translator, I do not have the luxury of a singular translation experience with just one CAT tool. When the CAT tools truly enable those outcomes, the translator should be left with an experience without comparison. With CAT tools, a whole new world has opened up for the translator CAT tools are intended to make translation more efficient, more consistent, and higher quality. Eliminating the desktop application discrimination that many historically faced, cloud-based CAT tools break down these barriers and open a new world of translation across the world – and OS. The move has been made from desktop applications to cloud-based applications. Windows, specifically, so if you have a Mac, tough luck.īut CAT tools have evolved too – not as drastically as the very tangible difference between a 3 kg dictionary and a featherlight computer with an incredibly large database, but more subtly and gradually. Historically, these have been divided into the Big 3, and as is standard for their time, they are desktop applications made for just one type of OS. And then, we have what is likely the biggest advantage of the modern technological world of translation: CAT tools. We still translate without smart programs, but rather than an empty piece of paper, we look at an empty Word document. We still use dictionaries, but those dictionaries have moved from bent and stuffed shelves to online databases or applications.
However, you would be hard-pressed to find a more stationary industry. As a translator in a time when technology is constantly evolving, it would be easy to think that the industry is constantly evolving and changing too.
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