Ellen Krekeler

Ellen Krekeler said:

I understand that when using the DeepL plug-in the DeepL machine translation will ingore my SDL Trados termbase. Is this correct?

This is correct.

Ellen Krekeler said:

If so, will DeepL take into account the dictionaries that I have created in my DeepL Pro account?

No. The plugin will need updating to support the use of dictionaries from the DeepL account.

There are two reasons we have not done this yet;

1. In terms of the plugin for Trados Studio we have not had the time to address this as we're looking at other tasks which took priority.  DeepL released the API for it late last year so we do have what we need in terms of APIs.  Just need to find the time.
2. In terms of the Trados Live add-on we cannot do this because the API in Trados Live doesn't support this properly for us yet.  Probably not too far off so we'll do that when we can.

The source code for the plugin is opensource however, so there is nothing to prevent any developer from doing this.  It doesn't have to be us!

https://github.com/RWS/Sdl-Community/tree/master/DeepLMTProvider

The problem we have is that we are responsible for around a hundred plugins these days and when Trados Studio receives an update (SR2 for example) that requires changes in the plugins then it takes a lot of effort to get them all updated.  Many of them are a lot more critical to a translation workflow than being able to select a dictionary (even if this is desirable) so we have to prioritise everything we do carefully.  Many of them are also very complex and cannot be fixed in a day.

We opensource almost everything we do, and we provide all the plugins we create for free.  So we'd welcome a bit of community spirit from other developers who I'm sure benefit from the example code we are regularly providing :-)

This has been extremely helpful! Thank you for your prompt reply. Regards, Ellen

Hello, are there any news in case of application of glossary during pre-translation using DeepL plug-in please? thank you in advance

David Moznar , do you have any experience with Custom.MT Translation which does offer Deepl with glossaries?

Dear Lydia,

I dont. But Im going to try it. Thank you very much to your advice.