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,

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