#1 most frequent
United States of America
44.5%57 installations of 128
What is Phrase?
Multimedia localization with AI-powered subtitling, dubbing, transcription, AI voice generation, and captioning
Categories & Use Cases
Media
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Screenshot of the Phrase dashboard.
Who Buys & Uses Phrase
#2 most frequent
Korea (Republic of)
10.2%13 installations of 128
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.8%10 installations of 128
Premium price, disappointing use
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Phrase Localization Platform as our translation tool. In the past we used GroupShare and have a lot of experience with a variety of systems. Phrase Localization Platform has some good features. The ease of use is complicated by poor service. It an acceptable solution but the price is not reflected in the product or service quality.
Pros
- Term Bases
- Analyses of consumed TMS
- Graphs and charts of translations completed
Cons
- Ease of use of translation features
- Pulling terms from translation memories
- Consistently pulling terms from Term Bases
- Ticketing system and quality of response is poor
Return on Investment
- It has increased our systems costs considerably
- It has generally slowed down the process of launching projects
- The settings are quite difficult to get right and we have wasted a lot of capacity messing with the settings
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Trados Team, Trados Studio and Smartling
Other Software Used
XTRF, Smartling, Trados Studio
Why Memsource is worth it
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am currently building up a career as an independent translator, and have used many CAT tools in the past. In the past year, I've used Memsource almost every day, and I can say it helped me hit the ground running and start actively contributing to many projects. Memsource tackles many project management issues inherent to working in the industry, such as budgeting, task distribution, and, of course, translation and proofreading of several texts. The features offered by the product continuously aid teams in assuring the quality of the work provided.
Pros
- Quality assurance.
- Task distribution + warnings.
- Analyses
- Terminology
Cons
- Tags could be automatically arranged, even if not put in order manually.
Most Important Features
- Project Management templates.
- Resource Management.
- Acessibility
Return on Investment
- Good impact in vendor management.
- Good impact in time optimization.
Alternatives Considered
memoQ
Other Software Used
Smartcat, MateCat, memoQ
Memsource, my students favorite TMS!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am a lecturer at Universidad del Rosario's diploma in Specialized translation. Memsource is part of the CAT tools module. My students love the program. They find it very useful and user-friendly. We translate general texts at the beginning of the module and technical text in the second half. The Academic Edition gives us all the features of the program, plus the option of assigning the PM role to some students. Therefore they can use it to prepare to be translators and project managers.
Pros
- Create users with priorities
- Clear analysis
- Segmenting documents
- Showing matches from TM and TB
- QA
Cons
- More management features like translators' availability or invoicing
- Link to company website for quotes
- OCR for PDF files
Most Important Features
- Project manager role
- MT
- Splitting text
- Analysis
Return on Investment
- When used with students, they know the license is not as expensive as in other products
- When used in a company, savings for repetitions and 101-100% matches and the time saved from splitting a text and working with more translators
Other Software Used
Wordfast, Sonix, Adobe Acrobat DC, ABBYY FineReader
A lean, user-friendly solution for translators and project managers
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have been using Memsource for over seven years and across multiple companies, both as a translator and as an editor/proofreader. From the very beginning, I've found the interface to be very intuitive and user-friendly and the entire user experience to be very smooth, with very robust translation memory and term base tools. The ability to transition seamlessly between web-based and desktop editors while collaborating with other translators/proofreaders/project managers is brilliant and a huge time-saver, especially compared to other (much more resource-intensive) solutions in the market. I honestly prefer working on Memsource's lean interface to, say, SDL Trados Studio's very bloated one.
Pros
- Extremely intuitive user interface
- Robust translation memory and term base tools
- Seamless transition between web-based and desktop editors
Cons
- The in-context preview feature can be erratic
Most Important Features
- Flexibility
- Speed
- Leanness
Alternatives Considered
SDL Trados Studio
Other Software Used
SDL Trados Studio, Microsoft 365
An all-in-one tool that moves along with me
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Memsource on a daily basis to translate and review translations from my colleagues (around 7k words per month). I am a freelancer, so I don't have experience in the project design part, but from my experience as a linguist, Memsource is very user-friendly, and the interface is very intuitive and easy to use.
Pros
- The QA tool it provides is practical and always handy.
- Instant QA feature can save time at the end of the process.
- The possibility to decline a job directly from the platform instead of having to contact the client by email.
Cons
- I find the "net rates" (weighted word count) somehow misleading; I have been confused into thinking the project was short, but then it was due to the fact that many similar segments had been counted as fewer words than real (due to their similarity).
- I would like to have the "lock segments" feature more handy (I know the project creator does, but I, as a linguist sometimes need to forget about a few segments and focus on the rest).
- I would like to be able to exclude 100% matches from the QA process (when I don't have to check those segments).
Most Important Features
- Notifications are sent to team members when a new project is assigned or a project is declined (in a timely manner, to save time).
Return on Investment
- For me as a freelancer, it's great to be granted the license by the company as therefore not have to spend money on a license while enjoying the CAT tool.
- I believe Memsource has speeded up the translation workflow since there is less need to share files, reference material, and invitations all by different means. Memsource encompasses everything.
