Magali Piendel

Although I never used Studio 2017, only 2019 and now 2021, your version of the program worked fine for 4 years in hundreds of thousands of use cases, so take hope, if you learn how to use it it will work for you as well.

Studio is not a machine translation application, it's a CAT tool. Yes, you can integrate machine translation if you have a subscription with an MT provider (or maybe there are free ones as well).

If you got to the point where you were able to have files pseudo-translated (not a joke, very useful to estimate space requirements of target text), you could have pre-translated them with MT as well.

In order for that to work, you need to set up an MT provider under Project Settings -> Language Pairs, All language pairs-Translation Memories and Automatic Translation.

You can add MT providers or TMs using the "Use..." menu item or add new TMs using the "Create..." menu item. I marked installed MT providers in red. If you want to use MT providers other than SDL's you might have to install an plug in from SDL's appstore. (The plug-ins are free, the service they connect to usually costs, it's other companies like DeepL, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator etc.)

You did not tell us which MT provider you were trying to employ? 

Assuming that you actually have an MT provider, you mark the files or the project which you want to pre-translate, select pre-translte from batch tasks...

Click yourself through some "Next"s until you arrive at these settings, where you select "Apply automated translation":

This will use the first activated MT provider that you set in your Project settings.

I think (not sure with Studio 2017) that you have to install a plug-in to use SDL's language cloud NMT engine, but I think (again, not sure) that you have 500000 free characters of machine translation.

All the best. It's rather daring to accept a huge translation on a tight deadline using a new tool, if I may say so, but I really wish you all the best.

Daniel

Hi Daniel and thank you so much for your precious advice. I have now managed to add Google MT via the API key and this is working fine. I will be interested in purchasing the latest version as soon as it's available.

Kindest regards,

Magali

Magali Piendel

Magali Piendel said:

I will be interested in purchasing the latest version as soon as it's available.

It's already available... or are you waiting for it to become available somewhere else?

Dear Daniel,

Again thank you, however, this programme has caused me to waste a lot of time before I could even start using it for work, and I eventually managed.

Now I am stuck with invoicing. Is there any plug-in / or else to add? I have found the report with word count and repetitions, but can't find any option for entering my rate per word and exact amount to charge my client.

Is there such an option in Studio 2017, please?

Well, I have asked to received a free trial as soon as the 2021 version is available, I haven't received my free trial yet (and I suppose it's normal because we're still in 2020).