CAT Tools

마침내 Trados를 구매하다

10년전 번역을 처음 시작했을 때 멋모르고 Trados를 샀습니다. 이리저리 둘러보고 쑤셔보고 눌러보다가 화딱지가 나서 때려쳤지요. ㅎㅎ 그 뒤 MemoQ를 필두로 XTM,...

How to Approach Requests for CAT Tool Discounts

I’ve posted several times that there’s a lively discussion going on around TM ownership. This discussion exists mainly because agencies claim ownership to a TM when it’s the translator who purchased the CAT tool, learned...

6 Interesting Statistics About CAT Tools: Most Hated CAT Tool? Most Expensive CAT Tool?

ProZ surveyed translators about CAT tools. The results were quite interesting, and I’d like to comment on some of the charts and stats. (I only included data I found interesting and I thought was important. If you want to see...

Understanding, Using, and Owning Translation Memory

All CAT tools can use translation memory—translation memory is the key characteristic of all CAT tools and a significant tool for increasing efficiency. There are tools that provide just the translation memory function...

Why Should You Use CAT Tools?: The Advantages of Using CAT Tools

I realize that I haven’t written much about CAT tools so far. It’s a little late, but I will post a few basic things about them. Here, I’ll discuss what CAT tools are and why they’re useful. What is a CAT...

Good Things to Know Before Purchasing Fluency Now

Since I released the Fluency Now discount code, many of you have taken an interest in it and asked some important questions. I realized there were many of those questions that I couldn’t answer right away, so I ended up asking...

CAT Tool Comparison: How Does Your CAT Tool Stack Up?

I found a place on ProZ.com that allows you to compare CAT tools. It’s a place with a collection of ratings and evaluations left by users of various CAT tools, and although it’s not very objective since it’s not one single user...

Five Simple Tips That Will Make Using Fluency Faster and Easier

Speed issue in Fluency If you’ve ever used Fluency for a long stretch of time, you have probably noticed the search function (Ctrl+D) gets slower at some point. Fluency itself isn’t a gigantic program, so it doesn’t take...

What Is Alignment and Why Should You Use It?

About alignment I think I’ve already explained alignment somewhere, but to briefly reiterate, alignment is the process of producing TM from two texts that are already complete (source and target text). To make an...

CAT Tools: What to Do When Agencies Force Their Selected CAT Tool

This is the last section on the CAT tool market, and I will talk about how to deal with agencies that force translators to use their selected CAT tool. I will assume that you already know why selecting your own CAT tool is...

CAT Tools: Introducing Fluency

In this post, I will introduce the CAT tool I use: Fluency. It’s been almost 5 years now since I started using Fluency, and there are still a lot of things that I am dissatisfied with. But I like the company’s work ethic...

CAT Tools: The Online CAT Tool

In the previous post, I provided an overview of the CAT tool market and Trados’ place in it. In this post, I will discuss online CAT tools. Online CAT tools are quite incredible. Before we discuss them further, though, you...