Lilt is an AI-powered language service provider (LSP). Lilt combines adaptive neural machine translation technology, an enterprise translation management system, and professional translators to allow organizations to scale their translation programs and improve the global customer experience. They purport to improve translation speed by 3-5x and reduce costs by 50% or more. Lilt HQ is based in San Francisco and is backed by VCs like Intel Capital, Sequoia, Redpoint, Zetta, and…
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TransPerfect GlobalLink
Score 8.0 out of 10
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GlobalLink AI is a machine translation version of the GlobalLink product, from TransPerfect company Translations.com.
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.
It's effective for translating technical content, but there are faster, more intuitive, and visually cleaner tools that are out there. It's a bit clunky and requires too many different steps for different things in my opinion.
Slow, bugs and errors aren't uncommon, logs you out suddenly, sometimes doesn't save what you've worked on even if you commit/save strings
No shortcut-available, you have to mouse-click a lot, makes work less intuitive
Confusing interface
Not sure if it's the tasks' setup once they're sent to linguists, but sometimes almost exact matches don't show up automatically. You have to search bits of a sentence to hopefully find an exact match that had been translated before, but for some reason didn't show as a suggestion. That takes up a huge amount of time.
It's the slowest of them all and the design/interface/usability is a little 1990. I also don't feel as confident that it will save my work to the cloud like the others do, because it has logged me out suddenly and didn't save the last strings I had worked on, even if I had committed them and saved them.
