A Comparative Study of User Perception and Friendliness of SDL Trados, MemoQ, and Phrase in Translat Thread poster: Mohammed Aloufi
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Hello,
I am doing a small qualitative study on the user perception and user friendliness of SDL Trades, MemoQ, and Phrase (Previously Memsource). I would like to see how users see / perceive these three tools in terms of productivity and usability. Can you please provide me with insights on your experiences of these three tools. If you agree to answer, please talk more about the features that make a certain CAT tool usable and effective. For example, you can talk about transl... See more Hello,
I am doing a small qualitative study on the user perception and user friendliness of SDL Trades, MemoQ, and Phrase (Previously Memsource). I would like to see how users see / perceive these three tools in terms of productivity and usability. Can you please provide me with insights on your experiences of these three tools. If you agree to answer, please talk more about the features that make a certain CAT tool usable and effective. For example, you can talk about translation memories, terminology systems, machine translation, quality assurance, alignment, file conversion, etc. Your insights are greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Mohammed Aloufi
Binghamton University ▲ Collapse
| | | | Michael Davies 
Denmark
Local time: 11:24
Member (2009)
Danish to English
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| Request for response to comparative study | Apr 27, 2023 |
Hello Mohammed,
I assume that you have prepared or will prepare a questionnaire for use in data collection. If so, you are welcome to contact me through Proz.com with the questionnaire that I will endeavour to respond to, to the best of my ability. I have used - and continue to use - both SDL Trados and Memsource/Phrase for some years so am reasonably familiar with both of these CAT's... See more Hello Mohammed,
I assume that you have prepared or will prepare a questionnaire for use in data collection. If so, you are welcome to contact me through Proz.com with the questionnaire that I will endeavour to respond to, to the best of my ability. I have used - and continue to use - both SDL Trados and Memsource/Phrase for some years so am reasonably familiar with both of these CAT's.
Regards,
Michael (https://www.proz.com/profile/965413) ▲ Collapse
| | | | LEXpert
United States
Local time: 04:24
Member (2008)
Croatian to English
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Trados:
pluses:
Usually fast editor
Project management (can have several projects open in the editor from several languages at the same time)
TM management (TM is just one file, if you want to copy it somewhere)
File management (native format just a single bilingual text file, easy to move around or send)
minuses:
less intuitive than MemoQ
Wonky default settings - e.g., autoadapts similar (but nonidentical), even confirmed segments if you confirm a... See more Trados:
pluses:
Usually fast editor
Project management (can have several projects open in the editor from several languages at the same time)
TM management (TM is just one file, if you want to copy it somewhere)
File management (native format just a single bilingual text file, easy to move around or send)
minuses:
less intuitive than MemoQ
Wonky default settings - e.g., autoadapts similar (but nonidentical), even confirmed segments if you confirm a segment with placeables in it, often resulting in the introduction of numerical errors).
Autopropagation can be very slow if there are a lot of repetitions.
Unable to sort segments by length, alpha, frequency, etc.
Can filter only, but not create a truly separate view.
Limited to 5 setup languages, if that's still a thing
MemoQ
pluses
More intuitive
Can create a fully separate view with only certain segments (seg. no, status, reps/no reps, not started, etc.).
Can sort segments by length, frequency, etc.
No setup language limitation
Fast autopropagation, doesn't change segments you don't want to change
Minuses
Editor can get bogged down and be very slow sometimes in moving segment to segment
No single-file native format for TM or working file, transferring requires exports
Only one project can be open at a time, lose time switching between projects
Phrase:
Works well for an online software, no particular issues. I'll take it any day over XTM or Crossweb. ▲ Collapse
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