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Can I use SDL online or not?

Dave Gayman

Studio newbie using trial 2017

After finding that I could use online machine translation with Studio, when I sent to set up a translation memory it appears the SDL Online machine translation is one of the choices:

Trados Studio Translation Memory and Document Settings window showing SDL Language Cloud Machine Translation as an option in the dropdown menu.

After I set up a trial account with SDL online, I then tried to attach it to a test document and was told I could NOT use it:

Error message in Trados Studio stating 'Your current package is not compatible with SDL Trados Studio. To select a new package, visit your account.'

Which is it? 

Can I use it?

Or can't I use it?

If I can use it, how to I attach it to Studio?

 

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  • 0 in reply to Dave Gayman
    Hi ,

    You can control when Machine Translation is used or not based on the existence and quality of a match from a translation memory, if you use them both. You can penalise the results of a translation memory so that results that have the same match value in several translation memories for example are delivered to a different priority, and you can set the order in which they are looked up and results presented when they are all the same match value by setting the order in your settings... TM at the top will come first, TM at the bottom will come last. You can test that just using TMs in your trial version of Studio.

    The same goes for multiple MT providers if you use several. But as there isn't a fuzzy match value for MT you would just put the MT provider you wanted to be used every time at the top of your list when you added them. However, doing this does have drawbacks since many of the MT providers won't lookup a result if you have already translated the segment. This is to prevent you being charged, if they are not free or have a free allowance, every time you enter a segment. But you could set up Studio to only display the results in the TM Results window and not put the translation into the target segment (on the right hand side). Then you would see all the results from all engines and you just use the one you select.

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