1. Trados
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Advantage: the first advantage of using Trados
is that the translator immediately sees which parts of the text are to be
translated, which makes it easy to concentrate on the essential. Whoever has
attempted to translate a text in electronic format knows how difficult it is,
since each time the already translated source text must be deleted. As an
alternative, one must work with two texts side-by-side, or open the original
text on the screen again and then return to the already translated text.
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Disadvantage: it often results in careless
mistakes and increases the risk of skipping a sentence or a word. The situation
becomes even worse if the translation is received as hard copy. If the
translator does not have the possibility of converting the text into an
electronic format by using optical character recognition (OCR—another tool to
make the translator’s life easier), he or she must constantly shift the focus
between the paper and the screen.
2. Ginger
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Advantage: You learn the topics that are most
relevant to you, those that cause most of your writing mistakes. Frequently
these are your most common spoken mistakes as well. You practice by correcting
your own sentences, instead of textbook learning examples that are not
necessarily relevant to your specific use of English. You learn faster because
the learning program is personalized to meet your needs. No need to practice
topics that you already know, or that are too advanced for you. You don’t need
to invest hours taking English lessons. Whenever you write an email, an essay,
or a status on Facebook, you can, in a single click, get corrections from
Ginger, as well as explanations on how to avoid repeating those same mistakes
in the future.
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Disadvantages: it has a disadvantage that it
slows down the speed of your PC to some extent, but when you stop it from
working on the browser the speed is improved rest there is no problem with the
free version of this software.
3. Systran
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Advantage: they support unlimited user access
and millions of real-time and batch translations per day as demonstrated by the
leading search engines, global corporations, and governments. Scalable, open
and robust, SYSTRAN solutions use standard APIs, support universal file formats
and are easy to integrate with third-party applications. SYSTRAN delivers the
highest translation speed available for machine translation solutions. SYSTRAN
also delivers the largest breadth of machine translation software products in
the market which offers fast and cost-effective customization.
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Disadvantage: you have to buy particular
language combinations. For example, it costs more to have software that will
translate both French and Spanish into English.
4. Sdl
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Advantage: it can reduce the number and severity
of vulnerabilities in software. In order to measure the extent to which these
goals are met, security experts analyzed publics vulnerability counts in
"pre-SDL" and "post-SDL" versions of the same product in
the 12 months (or more) following the release.
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Disadvantage: SDL includes a poor efficiency of the
generated code and inadequate support for complex data type, algorithm,
concurrency and hardware interface descriptions.
5. Wordbee
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Advantage: it is a web-based application that
allows interaction between the project manager, translator and proofreader in
real time as well as simultaneous translation. Simultaneous translation means
you can translate a source text into different languages simultaneously. Wordbee
makes it possible to forward a source file to up to three translators. Wordbee
enables proofreading and approving of translation memories (or previously
translated files), in order to build new translation memories or export
translation memories from other software. This is because Wordbee is compatible
with most translation programs on the market.
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Disadvantage: for someone with diminished eyesight, Wordbee is almost unusable, since it works at a low resolution and vague
colors inside the browser and also has too small fonts. There is no PC based
version of Wordbee to at least try to fill the missing requirements like other
cloud based tools have made sure to provide.
