What is the ideal for translation?

Merab Dekano wrote:

- Trados has very poor spell check capabilities and its built in dictionaries are largely flawed (Spanish, at least). It is incredible, though, since it costs quite some chunk of money.

- I discovered that if I ran spell check and grammar check in Word, after I have exported the target document, this would fix all possible typos; stupid things, such as missing "¿" signs, spaces, etc.).

We still collaborate and they shoot, time to time, track changes, so I can see what the possible improvements are (they have very good editors, in my opinion). I see it as a win-win situation. Our work is edited anyway. So, no extra effort to just share it?

I refer to this kind of feedback, so it helps us to implement improvements.

Josephine Cassar wrote:

A job consisting of 8000 words, deadline is comfortable, so no complaints there, but with these reductions:
Repetition-275
101% - 137
100% - 68
95%-99%-490
85%-94%-370
75%-84%-692
50%-74%-1396
No match-5271
Total payment expected €212.57, which works out at €0.0265 per word. Thanks, no thanks, but someone must have accepted these rates, together with the responsibility and refused other jobs. Besides, this was from a company that has a lot of 5s in the BB entries, though there were some complaints about late payments.
Concerning feedback, I meant when one has not received any complaints or comments that the text needs reviewing. Taking feedback in a positive way always helps one develop or see alternatives one might not have considered, too.


[Edited at 2014-10-29 15:37 GMT]

[Edited at 2014-10-29 15:37 GMT]

Merab Dekano wrote:

I mean, it is may be a small detail, but it would be nice to have regular, constructive and honest feedback from our customers (with track changes).

Phil Hand wrote:



It's also what will continue to differentiate us from machine translation.

Giles Watson wrote:

You can activate the MS Word spell checker in Trados Studio 2014

Phil Hand wrote:


2) The agency (if any). The agency acts as coordinator, technical support and clearing house for information. It converts files into appropriate formats, handles diagrams and other formatting issues. It offers technical resources and puts translators in touch with the right people.