Trados is a CAT tool (Computer Assisted Translation). It is the market leading CAT tool, used by most professional, freelance translators (it is not to be confused with machine translation, something Tongue Tied never use). Translators use it to make their work easier, more efficient, and higher quality for many reasons, including text isolation and quality control.

With Trados, we can identify repetition within the text, and since it is much easier for translators to work with, this equates to cost savings to clients for work where Trados is heavily involved.

Trados also gives us (Tongue Tied) the ability to match and re-use previously translated text and language repetition – this is called a Translation Memory (TM). It stores a database of ‘segments’, which can be sentences, paragraphs, or sentence-like units that have previously been translated in order to aid our translators. The Translation Memory stores the source text and its corresponding translation in language pairs. The translator and your project manager will use this tool to manage glossaries, abbreviations, and specific terminology to ensure all translations are consistent with materials that have already been translated.

This also means we would not need to re-translate duplicated content, allowing further cost savings.