Hi Arianne,

That option is just about automating whether or not the MT match is inserted or not, and not whether it even looks up the result.  So the idea would be that the result is there in the TM window, just doesn't get inserted into your target.

The best way to work with MT if you are concerned about exceeding the free limits, in my opinion, is to work like this:

1. Prepare your Project and use the unknown segment option
   
2. This gives you an sdlxliff containing only the segments that had no result from your TM.  You can decide what value to use for this, I am showing 74% but if you make it higher the file will be bigger.  Just depends on your judgement on whether the TM fuzzies will be more useful than the MT result.
3. Add the sdlxliff to your project and pretranslate it with MT only.
4. Create a new TM and update the results into the new TM
5. Add this TM to your Project, maybe with a penalty to help you recognise it is MT and not a 100% match
6. Turn off your MT provider

This way you only ever use the MT once for all the unknown segments.  You also get AutoSuggest for the TM, fuzzy and concordance searches even without Fragment Matching.

Maybe this will work for you and save you burning through your allowance?

Regards

Paul

Hi Arianne,

It seems the answer I gave you, whilst a relevant workaround, is not correct in terms of how the option "Look up segments in MT even if a TM match has been found" actually works.  It is supposed to behave the way you wanted it to work, and it does under the right circumstances.

The explanation I received this morning and have confirmed is as follows:

Unknown said:

If in the providers list, the MT provider is before the TM, the lookup will still take place, even if the option to “lookup only when no TM match is found is disabled”. This is because Studio searches through the providers in the order in which they are added. This order can be changed.

So if in your providers list you have the Translation Memory first and LanguageCloud second, the lookup will take place only if that option is checked. If you have MT first and TM second, the lookup will take place anyway.

So please try changing the order of the providers using these little arrows and then you should be able to work as you expected.  So change this:

To this:

Then all is well.  Thank you Mihai for the explanation and Cristina Nistor for picking me up on this!

Regards

Paul