How Computer-Assisted Translation Is Beneficial For Translation Business?
After the release of Trados MultiTerm and Translator’s Workbench in the early 1990s, Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) and Translation Memory (TM) tools have revolutionized the entire language services industry. CAT tools have been largely adopted by language service providers involved in large and small-scale projects and virtually any type of content. Be it clients or prospective clients who are either new to the language services industry or who have never heard of CAT/TM technology, it can be a difficult job to make the selection. Usually, the initial assumptions which first-time clients have in respect of CAT tools are that they are a type of machine translation. But the fact is something different as the CAT tools involve 100% human translation (and editing) through CAT/TM software assisting the translator to be more efficient, consistent and accurate in terms of translations. Basically, CAT tools work by dividing the content to be translated int...