SDL Trados "Simulate Translation" non sense

Hello, I'm a new user of SDL Trados 2017.

I have configured by myself Trados with Google API (I'm in trial now, so i didn't pay) but have some problems with it and I'd like to ask some questions:

a. When I click on a segment of a file to translate it shows the Google API translation for a few seconds then it disappears, forcing me o click on the upper tag "Translations results" to gain again the right translation. How to face this problem?

b. When I click on Simulate Translation in the "Batch activities"" it translate the documents with a nonsense translation. Why this? I tried also Pre-translate button but it didnt translate anything.

c. Is there anyway to add a section where to insert my rate by word so that it can show the value of the translation and i can reorder them by value?

d. I translate a document with TM but when I click on the TM section the memory is empty. Why?

 

Thanks

  • Hi  

    Unknown said:
    a. When I click on a segment of a file to translate it shows the Google API translation for a few seconds then it disappears, forcing me o click on the upper tag "Translations results" to gain again the right translation. How to face this problem?

    I'm not sure what's going on here... unless you closed the TM results window by mistake, so it's flashing the results and then closing again.  Try View -> Reset Window layout.

    Unknown said:
    b. When I click on Simulate Translation in the "Batch activities"" it translate the documents with a nonsense translation. Why this? I tried also Pre-translate button but it didnt translate anything.

    It sounds to me as though you are running the Pseudotranslate batch task.  This is not intended to be a proper translation... it's used as a test to check target files, often to get help with quoting DTP effort before you do the work.

    If you want to use Google for this then you need to set the option to use MT when there is no Translation Memory result.  It's in your Project Settings under Language Pairs -> All Language Pairs -> Batch Processing -> Pre-translate Files:

    Also note that it will greyed out as mine is unless you have got an active MT engine in your project already.

    Unknown said:
    c. Is there anyway to add a section where to insert my rate by word so that it can show the value of the translation and i can reorder them by value?

    No.

    Unknown said:
    d. I translate a document with TM but when I click on the TM section the memory is empty. Why?

    You have probably not updated the translation to your TM as you worked; or you worked with a Project TM and have opened your main TM to see what's in there... this will be empty until you run the batch task "Update Main TM" (in this scenario).

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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