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Poll: What is your biggest frustration with modern Translation Management Systems (TMS) and CAT tools?
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Lieven Malaise
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CAT tools 09:01

My biggest frustration is the shift to subscription models of software in general. It apparently makes a good reason to shamelessly double, triple or even quadruple prices compared to eternal licenses.

WolfgangS
Sebastian Witte
Li-Hsiang Hsu
Luis M. Sosa
Renée van Bijsterveld
Philippe Etienne
 
Sebastian Witte
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Allemagne
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CAT tools 10:30

1. Paying fees for minor incremental updates. (Or rather, what Lieven said).
2. Laggy platforms. (We do not use browser-based editors when working in our own CAT tool).
3. AI features forced into them. (However, these can easily be ignored.)

Even so, we're 100% faster than when working with no CAT tool.

Maria Laura Curzi
Luis M. Sosa
 
Li-Hsiang Hsu
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France
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Complexity and inconsisitency - an example of XTM 11:02

There are at least three to five ways to connect to XTM to manage tasks, translations, and invoicing; such complexity, cumbersomeness, and lack of consistency do not reflect high-performance engineering, but rather sheer incompetence.

And its TM and concordance research barely work well.
 
Luis M. Sosa
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Speed 20:35

Question is for both PMs and translators. But I guess only translators will show up here.

I have the impression that I already have said this in a previous related poll.

With respect to CAT tools, large projects (>15k with large TMs) turn them to virtual elephants. QA checks also become quite slow or nightmarish, and, believe me, it does not depend on the internet connection speed. Could give 3 names, but it might sound incorrect.
 


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