Category Archives: TEnT / CAT Tools

Blogoscoped has a new post about “Google Translation Center”. Here is a short excerpt: According to the Google explanations on the frontpage and their product overview page, we can see this is meant to be a translation service which offers both volunteers and professional translators… and I suppose at least the professionals will want to […]

Anaphraseus (formerly OpenWordfast) is a CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool, OpenOffice.org 2 macro set similar to Wordfast. It works with Wordfast Translation Memory format (*.TXT). Supports text segmentation. Features: term recognition, fuzzy search, Unicode support. Installation is pretty easy. We tried it with OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Download the Anaphraseus extension here Launch OpenOffice Writer and […]

Kilgray have released yet another update for MemoQ. Here is the download link: http://kilgray.com/memoq/MemoQSetup.2.3.16.small.zip Changelog: — A filtering crash when using the filter on a View; — Word index entries imported (even if hidden text is not); — Projects stored on network drives should now work OK (please verify). Tweet

Isometry is a free computer-assisted translation tool developed by Toshiya Kazuyoshi. We grabbed version 1.0.6 from the FINITE FIELD website. Apparently the last build dates back to April 2006, so this may a point of concern about future developments of the application. Apart from the usual features offered in modern CAT tools, there are a […]

Total Recall’s Snowball is a translation environment tool (still in beta) that introduces several interesting concepts. It can import TMX translation memories and it performs a preliminary term analysis before the translator starts the actual work. During our tests, the import invariably got stuck during the database analysis, so we could not form a final […]

MemoQ received another update. Here are the download links (with and without .Net Framework) and the changelog: http://kilgray.com/memoq/MemoQSetup.2.3.14.zip http://kilgray.com/memoq/MemoQSetup.2.3.14.small.zip The build contains RTF and XLS filter fixes, and updated French, German and Hungarian strings. Preview creation for large bilingual RTF/DOC files has also become a lot faster. MemoQ: Translate better, cheaper, faster Tweet

OmegaT, the free (GPL) translation memory tool, has received a minor release update. Quoting from the changelog: Notes: The version 1.8 update 2 contains the same changes as the 1.7.3 update 3. In addition, it contains a number of small enhancements and bug fixes specific to 1.8, notably concerning the user interface and spellchecking. The […]

The excellent MemoQ TEnT has been updated. Here are the links: http://kilgray.com/memoq/MemoQSetup.2.3.13.zip http://kilgray.com/memoq/MemoQSetup.2.3.13.small.zip (The small download does not contain the .NET redistributable.) Here ‘s the changelog: Altogether there are 22 fixes in this build, the most important ones have to do with RTF export (corrupt characters). The others include: An error that appeared for some […]

This looks like a promising free service that seems to offer all the benefits of a good TEnT, but delivered through a Web 2.0 interface. Visit this link for a full list of features. There is a short review about Lingotek on Translator Support. One concern with this service, however, is that you cannot export […]