The Simple Answer: Every sentence translated for a client is then stored in a database designated solely for that client for future use.

General Overview of Translation Memory

For any organization most company documents, including reports, presentations, plans, marketing collateral and webpages, will contain some content that is phrased in the same way. These segments of content can be blocks, paragraphs, sentences, or phrases. If the same or similar text, from a previous translation, appears in another document, the software alerts the translator who can then insert pre-existing translations from the memory into your document, review in-context and edit, if necessary.

A glossary of terms relevant to your industry, company, product, client, or subject matter can help maintain the consistency and efficacy of your content when translated into multiple languages. You can create multiple glossaries, each relevant to a particular business function. These can be incorporated into a comprehensive Term Base with proper classifications and descriptors from which to extract separate glossaries when needed.

As your language partner we will work with you to compile a Term Base, in advance of starting a translation project, and commit to updating existing entries, adding new ones that emerge during translation, and removing obsolete entries.Term Bases can be created from a spreadsheet that we can then import into our translation management system.

Improved Consistency of Translations

A direct result of the use of Translation Memory

Reduction in turnaround time

Linguists do not need to re-translate repeated sentences or paragraphs.

Cost Savings

Repeated text is only charged at third of the normal price. Translators will still check the context of repeated text.