Trados Studio apps/plugins for machine translation Latest update: 7 April, 2018. For a long time now, I’ve been intrigued by the very large number of apps/ plugins in the Studio appstore which give access – free or paid – to various types of machine translation services and facilities. Since I have lately found that the use of MT may give surprisingly good results at least for En > Sv (as well as completely useless ones), I was curious to know more about all these various options. Below is a brief overview of what I found trying to explore them to the best of my ability. Some general observations:  Several of the plugins offer to build MT engines based on your own TMs (with some of them, that’s the only option) and, in some cases, also termbase data. This requires fairly big TMs – typically at least 80,000 TUs – for reasonable usefulness. This type of service of course also means full confidentiality (you are its only user). However, normally such an engine suffers the same problem as other MT engines: it is not updated while you translate; you have to rebuild the it with the new TM data – and that will take some time. Newer engines, however, gives the possibility of adding fragments as you go (SDL’s Adaptive MT does this automatically, but only for some language combinations), but for full usage of all new TUs, the engine must be rebuilt.

 Some plugins require you to sign up for an account, free or paid, but details about that is not always provided with the plugin/app. Others require purchase of a specific tool, or purchase of internet-based services – but again, this is not always stated in the presentation of the app.

 Those details are sometimes not the only thing that is lacking. I have tried to provide such information below; in some cases extensive text is necessary, and if so, it is provided in the Studio manual. I have not been able to try all plugins – in particular, I have not had any MT engines built based on my own TMS – but generally I believe that for most common (and suitable) language pairs, you may get unexpectedly good results from the “big” options: SDL Language Cloud, Google Translate, and Microsoft Translator (which means that also MyMemory and RyS may be good options). This document will of course be updated (e.g. prices and availability of language pairs will change), so any comments/additions/correcions are more than welcome. Note on confidentiality: “Full” means that the service provider (if that is the case) will not make your data available to others. But as with the data on your own computer, they are of course susceptible to hacker and similar attacks. And of course, for services over the internet you need a safe (https) connection.

App name Comment Web page for Language Price Confidentiality account/API combinations key/order/info AltLang MT for For automatic adaptation of API key by asking Aimed at language Free. Full. language content into different varieties [email protected]. variant conversion (e.g. (Enhancement or varieties of the same language. American English-British adaptation comes English). Supports at a cost.) variants for Spanish (es_ES-es_LATAM), French (fr_FR-fr_CA), Portugueses (pt_PT- pt_BR) and English (en_UK-en_GB) ; see AltLang Main Page. CMLess Trados An instruction booklet for the Systran.io link 19 languages (mainly Free (systran.io); The free service is not Studio Studio plug-in, SYSTRAN or major European paid (Enterprise secured. The paid CMLess Trados Studio, can languages + some minor service is. Enterprise server link Services, which be obtained by asking for it ones). 34 language pairs. has many via e-mail options). (support.team@systrangroup. com). In Studio, this app is listed as “SYSTRAN”. Documentation sent on request. Convertus Engines can be updated with Swedish/Finnish > Free. Full. Automated user’s TM. English, English > Translation Swedish DeepL Developed out of well-known 42 language pairs (from Free. ”When using DeepL Pro, Linguee. Requires API key, English, German, the texts you submit and but you need to use the French, Spanish, Dutch, their translations are service for about 100 million Italian, and Polish). never stored, and are characters per month. used only insofar as it is More information here. necessary to create the translation. When using DeepL Pro, we don't use your texts to improve the quality of our services.” See DeepL Pro Terms and Conditions.

Google Not an app. Offered by default Open account or sign > 100 languages; see Per month pro “When you send Google CloudTranslate as one of the TMs listed when in at Language Support. rata; for 0–1.5 bn text for translation, we API you select Use. It is also cloud.google.com; characters it is must store that text for a available via the MT Enhance then Go to console > $20 per mn. See short period of time in Trados Plugin; that plugin Getting Started > Pricing. order to perform the offers further provider options Enable APIs and get Trial (up to $300 translation and return the (see below). Neural MT used credentials like keys. value during 12 results to you. The stored if possible. See also instructions months) is free. text is typically deleted in a few hours, although The results are often here. There is also a suprisingly good. Premium edition. occasionally we will retain it for longer while we perform debugging and other testing. Google also temporarily logs some metadata about translation requests … to improve our service and combat abuse. … You can read more about our data security practices here.” Iconic Machine In Studio, this app is listed as Link for contact En <>9 languages incl. Depends on Full. Translation “IPTranslator Plugin”. Chinese, Japanese, need. “A Plugin For information, see link. Korean, Russian. See company has a link. translation need for a particular use case and come to us and we assess the suitability / feasibility of the project from our perpective, and from an MT perspective in general.” KantanMT API API Key obtained by Video instruction here. Over 580 language pairs. Pricing from Full. connector for subscribing. Subscription at €499/month. Trados Studio Your own TM(s) can be used €499/month. to customise the engines. Subscription at €999/month. Microsoft Not an AppStore plugin. Azure link 52 (including 2 Klingon Free for < 20 mn “Microsoft does not share Translator API Available via the MT Enhance variants) characters per the data you submit for (also called Trados Plugin and the RyS month. See this translation with Microsoft Microsoft Translator plugin. Data page. anybody.” And: Translator Text The API is obtained via the “Customer data API) Windows Azure Marketplace. submitted for translation Information/overview in pdf through the Microsoft here. There are also Translator Text API and Microsoft’s own instructions at the text translation How to sign up for the features in Microsoft Microsoft Translator Text API. Office products are not written to persistent The results are often suprisingly good. storage. There will be no record of the submitted text, or portion thereof, in any Microsoft data center. The text will not be used for training purposes either.” See API and Hub: Confidentiality and No- Trace. Moses plug-in You need a pre-built Moses Any – depends on your None, I think (but Full. since you use your for SDL Trados engine. Jon Olds tells me that engine. the use of the app own data. there are various options: needs a pre-built 1) Buy Slate Desktop, which engine which may is a version of Moses for entail costs). Windows.PrecisionTranslation Tools is the vendor. 2) Install VirtualBox and build a Moses machine on a Ubuntu VM. This works well for translating, but the training stage may be less successful unless you have a lot of RAM. This option would cost you nothing other than time. 3) Use Amazon Web Services and work with Moses in the Cloud. There’s a small per hour charge by AWS. (In Studio, this app is listed as “Link up a Moses server with SDL Trados”.) MT Enhanced Gives access to Microsoft As for Google Cloud Free. As for Google Cloud Trados Plugin Translator API and Google Translate API and Translate API and Translate (actually Google Microsoft Translator. Microsoft Translator. You Cloud Translate API). can do batch find& SDL provides instructions for replace on the source Microsoft Translator text before sending it and Credentials for this app here. on the returned target text (if you select to send it, which however is not the default option). MyMemory Uses (1) your own uploaded MyMemory link Very large number. Basic version Basic use: Option not to TM [if any], (2) public TMs, (3) free. Pro version update segments, in Google and Microsoft. €0.004/source which case there is full Also Pro version with word (but a free confidentiality. If you CustomMT; it includes an trial for 7000 update them, they will be “Adaptive MT” function. Offers words). available to other free TMs in .tmx format. translators (but not Further information here and Google or Microsoft). here. You can also select to use your private TM in See also text in the Studio manual. which case that is what is updated, giving full confidentiality. Prompsit MT Uses the free/open-source Get API key by asking Aimed at related- Free. Full. Plugin platform Apertium for rule- via email language pairs (e.g. (Enhancement or based machine translation ([email protected]). Swedish-Danish). 43 adaptation comes systems. pairs from 29 languages at a cost.) (leaning towards Romance, Scandinavian and South-Slavic languages with some outsiders); see the Apertium Main Page. PROMT Expert Not an AppStore plugin. Rule- Presentation in English 14 languages but one €499 for the Full. 18 based solution for offline and in German (very must always be German multilinugal work; via “translation profile” different versions; the or English; in addition version. Free 15- you can also customize German one is more there is En <> Ru. days trial; get it automatic post-editing to extensive). here (clickon achieve good results. And this is a very “Herunterladen” Termbases included (the useful review in [Download]). number depends on the German. language combination). PDF manual here. RyS Baidu Gives access to Baidu User instructions are Several combinations XX For use of the Unknown. But you can Translate Translate, including included in the zipped > Chinese. app: US$35 per select not to return recognition and retrieval of package of the same license. Free 15 translations. terms from Baidu’s plugin from the RyS days trial. termbases. web site (which is free, so you can investigate the functions before purchase). RyS Google Gives “reliable and quick User instructions are As for Google Translate. For use of the Same as for Google Cloud Translate access to Google Neural included in the zipped app: US$55 per Translate above. (NMT) Machine Translation System” package of the same license. Free 15 You can select not to and “comes with a robust, plugin from the RyS days trial. return translations. while easy-to-use, pre-and- web site (which is free, post-editing feature that will so you can investigate instruct Google NMT not to the functions before translate some elements in a purchase). source segment, terms or sensitive information, for example, but to return position information instead and let the plug-in itself fill these ‘gaps’ later with the information you provide in the plug-in’s Pre- and-Post-Editing List”. Google’s neural MT is not available for all language pairs; but the post-editing function seems interesting. (In Studio, this app is listed as “Google Cloud Translate by RyStudio”.) RyS Microsoft Can use your own TMs as User instructions are As for Microsoft For use of the Same as for Microsoft Translator well as Microsoft Translator. included in the zipped Translator. app: US$30 per Translate above. The results seem to be very package of the same license. Free 15 You can select not to much the same as MS plugin from the RyS days trial. return translations. Translator via the MT web site (which is free, Enhance Trados Plugin (see so you can investigate above). the functions before purchase). (In Studio, this app is listed as “Microsoft Translator by RyStudio”.) RyS SoGou Gives access to SoGou DeepI User instructions are So far only English <> For use of the Unknown. But you can DeepI Translate (that’s an upper-case i). included in the zipped Chinese. app: US$55 per select not to return package of the same license. Free 15 translations. plugin from the RyS days trial. web site (which is free, so you can investigate the functions before purchase). SDL Language Built into Studio. Offers both Via Studio. (Or start A lot, but for non- Free or paid Full. Cloud “basic” MT and specialised here.) European languages (staggered) MT engines. Also allows use only pairs of Xx > En are depending on of termbases. supported. what serviced you For detailed information, see require. Price list the LC homepage and the here. Trados Studio manual.

Slate Desktop The app gives access from Start here. 32 languages; 992 Slate Desktop Full. translation within Studio to the Slate language pairs. lifetime license. provider Desktop software, which One languge pair: creates MT engines (no limit) $269 based on your own TMs and All language termbases. pairs: $549 Video instructions here. 30-day trial period For user experiences, see for with money-back instance here and here. guarantee. Sunda Uses Sunda’s own MT En <> Fi €44 for one Full. Translator engines. month in either direction. More prices in Price List. For free trial, see Sunda Translator in SDL Trados Studio. Tauyou Machine The app gives access from Request account at ”Many language €990 per month Full. Translation within Studio to the tauyou [email protected]. combinations” including and server; Plugin software, which creates MT combinations of all the includes up to 20 engines (no limit) based on major languages. engines, up to 1 your own TMs and termbases. mn words/ month and 4 hrs of ongoing improvement. No free demo, but trial period can be requested. Tilde Machine Creates custom MT engines Link for free trial. Any language Free 30 day trial Full. Translation based on your own TM and combination. period (includes plug-in termbase data, providing the customization of full range of professional client’s system). customization services. Users After that monthly can also customize their own subscription fee engines on the Tilde MT with a price per platform using resources from engine. Tilde’s multilingual data repository. Transistent API Creates MT engines based on Any language A charge for Full. Connector your own TM and termbase combination. “training” of the data. engine based on your TM; depends on volume. For use: ca .01€/word. VERTO Uses customised MT engines. Probably depends on See link. Probably full. LinguaCustoda No reply to repeated your material. questions for information. In future, I would like to be able to supplement this information with the corresponding data about MT plugins for other CAT tools, starting with Déjà Vu, memoQ, Memsource, and CafeTran. For the time being, I know that these are the plugins for:  Déjà Vu: Asia Online, Baidu, Google Translate, itranslate4.eu, Microsoft Translator, MyMemory, Pangea MT, PROMT, SYSTRAN  memoQ: Altlang MT, Crosslang Gateway MT, Google Translate, IP- Translator MT, itranslate4.eu, KantanMT, LetsMT!, Microsoft Translator, Moses MT, MyDutchPal, MyMemory, Omniscien, PangeaMT, Slate Desk- top, SYSTRAN, Tauyou, Tilde MT  Memsource: Apertium, Google Translate, KantanMT, LetsMT, Microsoft Translator, MoraviaMT, NICT, Omniscien, PangeanMT, PROMT, Safaba, SDL LanguageCloud, SYSTRAN, tauyou, tauyou, Tilde  CafeTran: Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, MyMemory, Slate Desktop, Yandex Translate