memoQ is a translation technology from the company of the same name headquartered in Budapest, boasting an emphasis on quality, innovation and customer satisfaction.
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Phrase
Score8.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Phrase is a Language Intelligence provider. Its enterprise platform automates, manages, and delivers multilingual content. Global brands use Phrase across hundreds of languages to reduce time to market and deliver consistent brand experiences worldwide. The Phrase Platform brings together translation management, software localization, multimedia localization, machine translation, workflow automation, and language AI in a single integrated environment. From marketing…
Professional Linguist at Freelance (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
Chose memoQ
MemoQ is useful in its own ways. It was the first CAT tool I have ever used, so my proficiency is higher in this regard. The QA process seems to be lighter and smoother, allowing for a fast review of the work in question, with a good and trusting spellcheck feature.
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Project Manager at Interbooks (Translation & Localization, 11-50 employees)
Chose memoQ
I believe memoQ is the best of these 3 tools. It has soo much functionality. I wish I could use it for all my projects, but we have a lot of clients that want to use either Memsource or SDL Trados Studio. As for the Web Editor, our translators seem to prefer Memsource over …
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Localization Project Manager II in Customer Service at MasterWord (Translation & Localization, 501-1000 employees)
Chose memoQ
I like MemoQ because there is a good amount of choices of service and engineering support. Memsource accepts lots of different file types as a source file. Like Memsource and Trados, you can install different connectors to your CMS and process your files smoothly. I would …
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Verified User
Chose memoQ
We are using memoQ for only certain projects and it’s not our main tool. It’s relatively slow and sometimes it can get too complicated. It does the job in the end but we prefer Memsource because of its easy-to-use interface as time is very important for us as project managers.
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Phrase
Verified User
Chose Phrase
While I liked working with SDL Trados Studio and memoQ, Phrase is just easier to use overall, allowing you to work faster and more efficiently.
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Verified User
Chose Phrase
I have been using memoQ and SDL Trados Studio for a longer time, but the Web editor for Phrase is the easiest to use of all. I do like the functionality in memoQ better, but Phrase is easier for our translators.
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Translator/Proofreader at Freelance (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
Chose Phrase
The price is very high for Trados and as soon as I invest monies in it, another edition/version appears. The interface is not user-friendly. The training is necessary and time-consuming. Phrase works on my MacBook... Trados does not. memoQ is good, but not as impressive as …
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Verified User
Chose Phrase
Phrase is a better option in my opinion for project management as it is cloud based and so much easier to use compared to memoQ and Trados.
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Verified User
Chose Phrase
I did not select Phrase. I use it because my clients use it, but I find it very useful especially due to a friendly interface and quick jumping between segments of different statuses during translations.
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Verified User
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Phrase is quicker and easier to use. You can even start translating on your mobile phone or tablet, as long as you have an internet connection. Plus Phrase shows me a live preview of my translation. I think Phrase is great for beginners as well, since you don't need a guide to …
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Verified User
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Starting a translation is easier than with SDL Trados. TM is better than with Smartling and Crowdin. The overview of New and Accepted work is so easy.
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Freelance translator at Freelance (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
Chose Phrase
Phrase is the best, because it does not have any unneeded functionality that would compromise its intuitive use, and those functionalities it includes are all easily accessible.
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Freelance at Self Employed (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
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Phrase is the easiest to use among all other CAT tools out there. Even when you use it for the first time, it will be easy for anyone to use. You don't even need much instruction or a tutorial process. Still, it allows you to do a lot. It's easy to find some features you want …
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Freelance LQA Tester at Freelance (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
Chose Phrase
Phrase is way cheaper and easier to use. Other softwares seem really old-fashioned and out of date. They are very difficult to use for a new learner and the UI is not good looking. Also, the price for products like Trados is too much expensive for a new freelancer and many …
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Verified User
Chose Phrase
What distinguishes Phrase from other translation tools is that it does not require massive specifications to run. Average computers can run it smoothly without needing 8 or 12 Gb RAM. Being able to use the browser to do the translation task is also another excellent feature. I …
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Verified User
Chose Phrase
Phrase includes all the basic features a freelance translator needs in a very user-friendly approach. All you need is a click away and provides quick results.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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EFL Teacher at Autônomo (Translation & Localization, 11-50 employees)
Chose Phrase
Phrase allies a project management platform with translation editing tools that enhance and perfect the integration of a translation company and serves it as a platform from which to build up its data. Phrase is a complete platform that supports all kinds of file formats while …
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Verified User
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SDL Trados Studio I had to install on my computer and it took time. I have some problems connecting it to machine translation and using some online resources. Compared to this software, Phrase is cloud-based, so no need for installation. Smartcat is close to Phrase, but …
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Verified User
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I favour Phrase among the others so far due to being faster interface and more user-friendly, also fully online is an advantage to my eyes.
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Localization Project Manager in Customer Service at MasterWord (Translation & Localization, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Phrase
Phrase provides a variety of different services on their tool. Like splitting the source files into different portions, having multiple choices on creating analysis for different users, the ability to attach a variety of different translation memories and termbases for each …
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I believe memoQ is the best CAT tool of all the ones I have tested. As a PM, it has a lot of file filters that are highly customizable. You can even use cascading filters to add extra filter settings to the default file filter. Also, the use of REGEX is almost available everywhere in memoQ. You can use regex for filenames, regex for tagging items in files, regex when importing items, regex when exporting translations, regex for QA checking, regex for filtering, etc. They also added a regex library so you can save your favorite regex and easily reuse them. From a translator's point of view, the LiveDocs functionality is something that no other CAT tool has (to my knowledge). With LiveDocs you can just add any type of document, and if it has selectable text, memoQ will search this text as if it were a TM while translating. Even for non-bilingual documents, this is really helpful as you can sometimes need to reference other materials while translating.
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The system is well suited if you also run Trados or any second system. As the system is very expensive and the use of MTUs is rather complicated to understand the best thing is to run most larger projects through Trados or any other CAT tool and then to import it. Large projects are expensive in Phrase Localization Platform so I would recommend it if you have small projects and have enough capacity to carefully check the terminology as the data pulled from the term base is inconsistent. The same applies to the find replace feature which can work great.
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In the case of EN to JA translation, we enter text and then convert it to get the correct final text (word or phrase) which uses correct Chinese character(s), as there are often multiple Chinese characters with the same reading but different meanings. When those conversion options are displayed, it is usually possible to change our selection among them by hitting the Tab key, but in Phrase, hitting the Tab key makes us leave the text conversion and move to the source segment, so we must make sure to use arrow keys to choose the right conversion option when using Phrase.
When there are tag elements used in the source text, the tags must exist in the target text of course, but the tag order also must be the same. The tags cannot be moved around in the segment, which causes problems in the case of the Japanese language, because the word order differs between EN and JA.
In the Japanese language, Italics are basically not used, so there must be no texts between the tags which specify Italic font. But then the segment cannot be confirmed and the job status cannot be changed to "Complete".
I use and manage an Academic edition (approx. 15 students) and the corporate license (10 users). In both cases, the features are easy to find, set and use. My students and my translators understand the dynamics of the platform easily and get used to them quickly.
It is designed to be a lean system, but that means that things are clustered in weird groups and a lot of trial and error is involved getting the settings right. If something goes wrong first level support is very quick and has very fast answers which are quite typical of first level support and essentially equate to asking you if you have switched it off and on yet. Anything more involved is challenging for support to address.
We rarely use support, but most questions were answered in a timely fashion, although we didn't exactly find them satisfactory. That's mostly the fault of the software and not the Support team because we asked for things that Phrase couldn't do.
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We are using memoQ for only certain projects and it’s not our main tool. It’s relatively slow and sometimes it can get too complicated. It does the job in the end but we prefer Memsource because of its easy-to-use interface as time is very important for us as project managers.
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Phrase has a very good user interface that people can quickly learn and start using. Also, its analysis features are top class which helps me provide a detailed estimate to my client based on the file particulars. It has a QA feature that helps me do a very high-quality check before I send out my translation to the client.
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