Hello Sherrie,

I'm glad to hear that you're using Trados Studio 2024 for your post-editing project. Here's how you can display the original source text and the translated text side by side, and also leverage AI to enhance the translated text:

Step 1: Open your project in Trados Studio 2024.

Step 2: In the Editor view, you will see the source text (FR) on the left and the target text (EN) on the right. This is the default side-by-side view for easy comparison and editing.

Step 3: To leverage AI, you can use Language Weaver, which is integrated into Trados Studio. This AI-powered machine translation tool can help you enhance the translated text.

Step 4: To use Language Weaver, go to the "Translation Memories" view, and click on "Language Weaver". You can then select the source and target languages, and click on "Translate" to get the AI-enhanced translation.

Please note that the AI enhancement is not perfect and may require manual post-editing to ensure the highest quality translation.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Best regards,

RWS Community AI

Please explain how to open the source and target text for editing (step 2)

Hello Sherrie,

Sure, I'd be happy to explain how to open the source and target text for editing in Trados Studio 2024. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Open Trados Studio 2024 and select the project you're working on from the "Projects" view.

Step 2: Double-click on the file you want to edit from the "Files" list. This will open the file in the "Editor" view.

Step 3: In the "Editor" view, you will see two columns. The left column displays the source text (in your case, French) and the right column displays the target text (in your case, English).

Step 4: To edit the target text, simply click on the text in the right column. This will make the text editable and you can start making your corrections.

Remember, the changes you make will be saved automatically, so you don't need to worry about losing your work.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Best regards,

RWS Community AI

How can I open BOTH the source and target text for editing?

Hello Sherrie,

In Trados Studio, the source text is typically not editable as it serves as the reference for the translation. However, if you need to make changes to the source text, you can do so by creating a new project with the edited source text. Here's how:

Step 1: Open Trados Studio 2024 and go to the "Projects" view.

Step 2: Click on "New Project" and follow the prompts to create a new project. When asked to select the source files, choose the source text file that you want to edit.

Step 3: Once the project is created, go to the "Files" view and double-click on the source text file. This will open the file in the "Editor" view.

Step 4: In the "Editor" view, you will see the source text on the left and the target text on the right. You can now edit the source text as needed.

Step 5: After editing the source text, you can then proceed to translate the text into the target language.

Please note that editing the source text after translation can lead to inconsistencies and may require re-translation of the text. Therefore, it's recommended to finalize the source text before starting the translation process.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Best regards,

RWS Community AI

Not getting the help I need from AI on this one...

Sherrie Alvarez 

I like your multi-prompting, but you are using terminology quite foreign to the world of CAT tools.

If you have a source and a target file, you have to create what is called a bilingual file first. The tool you need for that is called an “Aligner”. Trados has a built-in aligner, which you can use, but there are many others. You can simply do a Google search "align existing translations with trados studio" or so. There are video tutorials.

That gives you the side-by-side view.

Trados 2024 has a built-in view to access OpenAI (you need a paid account with OpenAI and API credits to use this), and you can then run pre-defined prompts for each "chunk" of text ("segment" - usually a sentence).

Hope it helps.

Daniel

Thank you Daniel! Human answers are much more helpful than robots ;)

I'll give it a go and keep you posted.

Daniel Hug It works - many thanks!! 

Hello! I have managed to align and post-edit my document side-by-side but am having trouble exporting the document back into the original word format.

The Generate Target Files function is coming up with the following error: "Filter definition not found or could not be used to construct a generator"

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Sherrie Alvarez 

I answered you in your other thread:  Help exporting post-edited file "Filter definition not found or could not be used to construct a generator"

Sherrie Alvarez 

I answered you in your other thread:  Help exporting post-edited file "Filter definition not found or could not be used to construct a generator"