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…
$324
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Phrase
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Freelancer & LSP plans - Freelancer
$27
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Developer Plan - Software UI/UX
$525
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$525
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Business Plan - Team
$1,245
per month (billed annually)
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It is very expensive and more difficult to navigate. Compared to the other support is slow and ineffective. Dealing with anything more involved is all but impossible. It has become more prone to bugs since being bought by TMS. Support suggests things like "use incognito" mode …
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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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Linguist in Professional Services at VeraContent (Translation & Localization, 11-50 employees)
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SDL Trados Studio is more robust but also much more bloated and resource-intensive and ultimately less flexible. I use both daily, but Phrase is my go-to in almost every situation.
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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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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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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)
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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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Phrase stands out because it can be used in ANY browser. Thanks to its mobile app, it is easy to accept and review the work that translators are assigned.
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I also use Wordbee, but the thing I don't like it most about it is that the number of segments you can display at a time is limited to 100 and you must move around many pages if the job size is large. I use SDL Trados Studio as well, but not cloud-based, so not really …
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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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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 …
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. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info
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. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info
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There is no true comparison because Phrase consistently outperforms the competition because it is simpler to use and has greater TM and MT integration.
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Freelance LQA Tester at Freelance (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
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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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It was selected by the client. I would go for XTM.
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Translation lead at Tradeling.com (Import & Export, 201-500 employees)
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Phrase has a more friendly user interface. It keeps offering new features (like machine translation add on) which wasn't there when we first started using Phrase. Very smooth and easy communication with customer service team. My tickets are addressed quickly and solutions are …
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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.
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
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. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info
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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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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Phrase is the platform chosen by one of my clients, Booking.com. I have direct contact with my client, and the machine translation service offered is better than the one offered by its competitors. It's more intuitive and easy to use as well.
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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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Freelancing Author, Translator & Speaker (Tamil, English) in Professional Services at Self Employed (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
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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 …
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. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info
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
Translator in Corporate at Alibata Translation Services (Translation & Localization, 1-10 employees)
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Phrase is more user friendly and innovative. The interface looks better and more accessible. I have not experienced any downtime with Phrase. The times that I used Phrase it didn't give me any errors or issues. But with the other tool, there were several times when their …
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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.
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.
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
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.
