Lilt vs. Trados Studio

Lilt is a great platform for translating and reviewing content for mainstream languages that are spoken by a large number of people such as Spanish, French, etc. in which case the machine translation tool does a great job of adding the appropriate fluency, grammar, and punctuations. The QA checks also likewise provide apt feedback with rarely any errors. The only shortfall for Lilt is when the content to be translated belongs to any non-mainstream languages (such as regional Indian state ones) and the most noticeable errors are thrown by the QA check tools which have several long-standing unfixed bugs.

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SDL Trados Studio is extremely well suited for expert CAT tool users. More novice users will have trouble getting up to speed. I have an office full of employees that constantly ask questions on how to do specific tasks, mainly because the task sequence is not obvious and is only uncovered by rote repetition of the same things. If you learn and apply the same techniques repeatedly, it becomes easier, but it seems the software was designed by software people, sometimes with little thought to the end users who have to figure it out. I don't know that professional training should be so necessary.

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• Provide exact and fuzzy match feedback for translations
• Provide step by step segmented workflow for translating
• Great QA checks including Batch and Full to help detecting errors
• Good machine translation feedback to help translators

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• Xbench plugin works great. You can run Xbench on the whole project with one click.
• TM and TB management
• It is one of the most common CAT tool thus it is easy for translator assignments.

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• Provide greater quality feedback for non-mainstream languages such as Indian regional
• Improve punctuation and grammar fluency for non-mainstream languages
• Fix long standing bug issues in QA check reporting mechanism

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• Preview feature
• Accessing server-based TM often takes time.
• When connecting to server-based TM, I need to enter credentials twice every time. The first attempt always fails.

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Again, the list of functions is impressive but the way it is organized (not process-driven) and the fact that complex tasks should be close to basic tasks make the product suitable to hardcore users that have a lot of time to research the manuals and blogs. By the way, Nora Diaz is one of the most respectable users of this product. Her videos help a lot!

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We rarely had any issues with SDL safe for a few bugs that we fixed promptly in the upcoming service packs and updates.

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memoQ is better quality and cheaper. Previously, Trados had a monopoly on the market but fortunately there are other adequate options available now at a lower cost.

• Lilt is helping my organization localize its products to a lot more languages
• Helps translating large content data like web pages with ease
• Improves overall quality of work done and hence help gain more clients

Incentivized

• Trados is used by many clients, so it helps me to get more jobs.
• Having one of the latest versions helps me a lot. I can, for example, import editable pdf documents and work on them within the Trados environment.
• It also helps me with files which need to be returned in bilingual format in Word.

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