LookAhead

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Dear Community, 
 Anyone knows what the following options in the general Studio 2022 settings mean: 
 1. "Activate LookAhead " benefits (checked by default) 
 2. After manual confirmation of segments: "Activate segment verification" 
 
 Thanks in advance!

Paul · Answer

Yulia Kovalskaya 
 In the help you have this general link: https://docs.rws.com/980998/344856/trados-studio-2022/file--options--editor--automation 
 That offers a very poor, and misleading (in my opinion) definition of lookahead, but the explanation of the "Enable verification of segment" is accurate and clear. 
 "When selected, Trados Studio verifies the segment when the translator confirms it." 
 But there is also this section which is somewhat better: 
 https://docs.rws.com/980998/535480/trados-studio-2022/lookahead 
 
 LookAhead is mostly useful when working with machine translation because the results are pre-fetched for several segments ahead of you and cached. This way when you get to the next segment the result is instant and you don't need to wait. There are penalties associated with this however: 
 
 you could pay more for your MT if you don't have a flat rate 
 you may not see the benefit from your TM or Termbase with newly added translations/terms until several segments later because the cached results from before you adding new information will be used in preference 
 
 It can be a very useful feature... but is best used when you understand the limitations so you avoid any confusion over what you're seeing.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Yulia Kovalskaya , 
 LookAhead is a nice feature to speed up the process if you using machine transation engines. When yuou move to the next segmen, Look Ahead gives you instant ersults, so you don&rsquo;t have to wait. In this link you can read a bit more: 
 Why can I only see some of the terms in my termbase but not others? 
 I have it unticked as I hardly use MT. 
 Enable verification of segment let&rsquo;s verify the segment as soon you confirm it. If there are any issues flagged by your QA rules regarding the segment just confirmed, a Warning or an Error icon will appear in the Editor, in the section between the Source and the Target sections: 
 I have it ticked, as I think it&rsquo;s good to know in real time if there are any issues and correct them if needed.

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