Neil Allen

Neil Allen said:

1) How do I add AdaptiveMT to a Trados Studio project in US English? Would this be another subscription option? If so, how can it be activated? I see no obvious means of doing this in my language cloud account.

AdaptiveMT is being replaced in favour of the NMT solutions we have been offering for a while now.  The quality of the NMT is a lot better than the old statistical MT that was used with the Adaptive engines.  So if you had an existing adaptive model available to you it will still be available, but you won't be able to create new ones.

This FAQ might help:

https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/sdl_language_cloud/28321/faq-language-cloud-neural-machine-translation-for-trados-users

I expect adaptive to come back in time (no timescales yet) but the quality is certainly a lot better already.

Neil Allen said:

2) I see that my subscription entitles me to 500,000 characters of MT output monthly. But what happens when this runs out? I have connected to my language cloud account and can see no information about how to move beyond the free subscription or the pricing for this.

Also covered in the FAQ.  For Freelance Translators who require higher volume of MT characters the following package can be purchased on an annual subscription:

SDL Machine Translation Cloud Translator Package
2 Language Pairs, 10m Characters per year, 1 User Per year

If you want a quote for that you can get this from our live chat - https://www.sdltrados.com/contact/chat.html

Ok, Paul, thank you for your reply, very helpful.

Kind regards,

Neil

I just chatted with Sales and the agent tells me that she thinks that NMT makes no distinction between UK and US English, although Studio does. Therefore if I purchase a subscription to the generic NMT engine, this still leaves me with the problem of how to add it in to a Studio project where the target language is US English.

I have submitted a case to https://gateway.sdl.com/WebToCaseLCMT but they may take two days to reply.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks.

Neil Allen

The agent is correct.  You should be able to simply add it.  What do you see when you try?  Also, see if using the app is better:

appstore.sdl.com/.../

Neil Allen

The agent is correct.  You should be able to simply add it.  What do you see when you try?  Also, see if using the app is better:

appstore.sdl.com/.../

Very weird. I installed the app, then checked language cloud and there was the generic NMT engine in a US language target project! Without going through the credentials step for the app.

So I uninstalled the app but it still seems ok. Initially, the screen to add the NMT engine was just blank with nothing available in US English target projects.

So whatever the problem was, it seems ok now.

Thanks.

I know what happened. Sometimes, for some reason, no NMT engine is shown when you try to add one. Then if you close Studio and open it up again, the NMT engine is now available.

It just happened again when preparing a different project.

It's not a problem as long as you know what to do when it happens.

Another digital mystery :-)

Have a nice weekend.

Neil Allen

Glad to hear it... you might find the app useful though for a few reasons, even if you don't have an Enterprise account:

1. it logs in faster if you're already logged into Studio

2. you can map the languages to anything you want

The latter can be useful if the variant you are using doesn't have an NMT engine because you can just tell it to use a language that does!