Monday, August 29, 2005

One reason I believe the sooner Trados disappears, the better...

...is the very poor quality of their matching engine. For example, I'm currently translating a list of software strings for a telephony system.

For the following string:

468:"Enable DUALmode"

I get a 62% fuzzy match, the original SL of which was:

451:"New building"

Very useful: the number "4", the colon and both quotes are, indeed, identical.

Even better:

For the string:

519:"Value"

I get a 74% fuzzy match, the original SL of which was:

142:"Permanent"


Hopefully, SDLX will be a change for the better.

1 comment:

  1. Ciao Riccardo, sono pienamente d'accordo con te. Per questo sono passata a Transit qualche anno fa. Una bellezza!

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