Poll: Have any of your regular clients introduced new steps in their translation process in the last year?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 17:24
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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No Sep 25, 2019

No change whatsoever, no new steps, business as usual...

 
neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 18:24
Spanish to English
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Yes Sep 25, 2019

Billing requirements. More hoops to jump through.

Yetta Jensen Bogarde
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Maxi Schwarz
Maxi Schwarz  Identity Verified
Local time: 12:24
German to English
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other - who is the translator, to have a translation process? Sep 25, 2019

It sounds kind of odd, to think of a client, who is not the translator, having a translation process, when they're not the ones doing the translation. I guess what is meant is the process that they have in place to procure, receive, and pay for a translation?

With end clients, I get a lot more pictures "sent by my X-phone", a few payments via the phone, quicker responses again because of the phone being at hand wherever they go. For pickups I no longer give directions since eve
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It sounds kind of odd, to think of a client, who is not the translator, having a translation process, when they're not the ones doing the translation. I guess what is meant is the process that they have in place to procure, receive, and pay for a translation?

With end clients, I get a lot more pictures "sent by my X-phone", a few payments via the phone, quicker responses again because of the phone being at hand wherever they go. For pickups I no longer give directions since everybody seems to have GPS, and some seem to use their phones as a kind of doorbell when they get there.

Agency clients operate about the same. One has just gone from mailing cheques to electronic transfer.

I cannot talk about "their" translation process, because I'm the one doing the translation. I haven't introduced any new steps in my process, that I can think of...
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Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 14:24
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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Yes, a couple Sep 25, 2019

Right now I can remember one client that thankfully moved from GTM to MemoQ and changed the entire process (improved it a lot, AMOF), and one that started using Plunet for invoicing purposes. But there were certainly others I can't recall right away. We (individuals and companies) are all constantly changing, most of the time for better, and this may add or suppress a few steps on the way.

 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 10:24
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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Yes Sep 26, 2019

My biggest client has streamlined their invoicing system. Now, I just click on "Accept" when I agree to do the job, and once I deliver it, the payment is processed automatically, usually within the week. Before, their system was extremely cumbersome. This is a huge relief.

On the other hand, they are also in the process of introducing a new "statistical" machine translation system that I'm more than a bit skeptical about because the sources for the system (corpora of past translatio
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My biggest client has streamlined their invoicing system. Now, I just click on "Accept" when I agree to do the job, and once I deliver it, the payment is processed automatically, usually within the week. Before, their system was extremely cumbersome. This is a huge relief.

On the other hand, they are also in the process of introducing a new "statistical" machine translation system that I'm more than a bit skeptical about because the sources for the system (corpora of past translations) were often of very poor quality. I'm already seeing some scary results.

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mona elshazly
mona elshazly  Identity Verified
Egypt
Local time: 19:24
Member (2016)
Italian to Arabic
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yes Sep 29, 2019

They introduced new instructions as regards the usage of Trados.

 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 18:24
French to English
Yes Sep 29, 2019

One of them has started using MT and so I'm getting less work from them since I refused to proofread it.

 
Nikolay Novitskiy
Nikolay Novitskiy  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 22:24
Member (2018)
English to Russian
Yes Oct 1, 2019

Some of my clients bagan sending me automated Xbench reports after the job is done. They have a lot of false-positives, and I avoid working with them now. Commenting this rubbish takes a lot of time

 


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