Technologies

Modern localisation and translation market is becoming ever more advanced in terms of technologies used. This sector makes extensive use of computer-aided translation software designed to facilitate localisation and translation. This software includes translation memory and alignment systems, terminology management programs, and automated quality assurance tools.

CAT Tools

Computer-aided translation software accumulates translation memories and helps to avoid re-translation of repeated text. It also manages terminology and scans bilingual texts for inconsistencies in terminology, formatting, and units of measurement in the translation. Computer-aided translation programs speed up localization and translation processes significantly and ensure consistency in terminology and style, which allows for subsequent localization and translation projects to be carried out by different translators. Computer-aided translation should not be confused with machine translation where computer software translates by itself.

Quality Control Software

Automation of quality checks greatly facilitates the work of editors and proofreaders and, more importantly, ensures its quality as even the most attentive person will miss some of the faults. A quality assurance program is a piece of software that enables automatic detection and quick and easy correction of formal translation errors. These programs normally identify the following errors: missing parts of text, translation discrepancies (when the same segment is translated differently in different places), terminology inconsistencies, numeric errors, formatting issues, etc.