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| Name | Smartling Translation Solution | OmegaT |
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| Most helpful review | Recommended Decent tool overall. Much improved from 10 years ago.32 out of 36 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | Simple, robust, efficient I use this program for most of my translation. It’s a free program [1]. Very simple to learn (the start screen shows a 5-minute start guide, and it takes really 5 minutes to start off). Has an excellent spell check feature, as well as grammar check via a plugin [2]. Extremely robust: haven’t experienced any crash or hang for years. You can have it as a portable version on a USB stick. User settings as well as projects can be easily transfered to another computer making system/computer updates or replacements seamless and painless. The functionality can be expanded with scripts [3]. The user groups [4] are ready to answer questions.
[1] OmegaT in Free Software Directory
[2] Implementation of LanguageTool
[3] Lots of scripts come with OmegaT distribution, but can also be downloaded from the relevant SourceForge page. Scripts (as well as other interesting issues) are discussed in Kos Ivantsov’s blog
[4] at groups.io and at sourceforge.net34 out of 34 found this review helpful.
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| Product description | Smartling helps ambitious brands access more markets, deliver better experiences, and build stronger relationships by transforming the way their content is created and consumed around the world. Our translation software and services prioritize process automation and intelligent collaboration so that companies can quickly and cost-effectively localize their websites, apps, and documents with minimal IT involvement. We help brands like British Airways, Spotify, IHG, and WeWork tell a global story.
Learn more | OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects. Downloaded close to 900,000 times since its first release, OmegaT is developed by and for translators and offers everything you expect from a standard CAT tool.
Features
• Fuzzy matching
• Automatic propagation of translations
• Unlimited number of translation memories (TMX format)
• Unlimited number of glossaries (CSV and TBX format)
• Looking up terms in the project, in reference translation memories, in glossaries and in reference documents
• Projects with an unlimited number of folders and files, in all accepted formats
• Team projects with an unlimited number of translators
• Right to left and bidirectional writing management
• Tag protection and validation
• Morphological recognition
• Spell checking (Hunspell)
• Linguistic checking (LanguageTool)
• Dictionaries (mono and multilingual) in StarDict and Lingvo DSL formats
• Machine translation (Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Apertium, Yandex, MyMemory)
• Public API for plugins: Additional file formats (Okapi), Local machine translation (Apertium)
• Running scripts written in Groovy and JavaScript
• Auto-completion from glossary entries, abbreviation list, history completion and history prediction
• Graphic aligner for all supported formats
• External search on the Internet
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| Price | Free for translators and agencies; clients pay based on content tiers | Free of charge & total freedom of use (no license number, no registration) |
| File formats | HTML, Java properties, XML, JSON, Android XML, iOS Strings, YAML, gettext, Microsoft Office, InDesign | More than 50 file formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, LibreOffice, HTML, TTX and SDLXLIFF (Trados), TXML (Wordfast Pro), IDML (InDesign) and PDF (text and Iceni Infix export) |
| License type | Software as a service (subscription) | Perpetual, open source |
| Operating system | Linux, Other, Android, Apple iOS, Windows, MacOS | MacOS, Windows, Linux |
| System requirements | Smartling is a cloud-based system that only requires access to the internet via a modern web browser. No desktop installation is needed. | No specific requirements. Runs anywhere. |
| Compatibility | Cloud-based, and thus compatible with all systems | Supports standard data exchange formats (TMX, TBX) and most standard source formats (see above) |
| Support and upgrades offered/included | Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription, Free technical support via support ticket center, Free community support | Free upgrades to all future versions, Free community support |
| Support and tutorial links | https://help.smartling.com/docs | https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/OmegaT/info https://omegat.org/documentation#tutorials |
| Free trial | No data | Perpetual license free of charge |
| Languages supported | All languages supported for translation. Translation interface available in English. | No limitation whatsoever regarding useable language pairs. Possibility to use language codes that are not listed in the defaults. |
