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| Name | Lilt | MateCat |
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| Most helpful review | Worst CAT tool I have ever tested This platform is not compatible with complex documents with tags, it is time-consuming and tedious to use, if you think consistency and typography is important in your work.
It is sometimes plainly absurd, why on earth would I like the cursor to jump to the end of the segment when I use a non-breaking space in the middle of a segment?
Be careful if you are asked to work on Lilt at half-price because it will take twice the time to work on it, while training their awful MT output and being super slow.
The "TM" does not populate perfect matches and is not case sensitive (really) you have to retype it with there predictive output which is not the same each time. Here it is for the consistency.
It's not easily compatible with basic QA check tools.
Oh, and if you delete a file, the TM gets deleted as well, because who needs to keep a TM after the file is translated, am I right ?21 out of 21 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | A very promising CAT tool It is an outstanding CAT tool, I have worked with SDL, Fluency, OmegaT and other CAT tools and in most cases this one allows me to work faster using a much better quality automatic translation as a base for my work, I still have to learn more about it, but so far, even if it lacks of many features, looks like a very promising CAT tool.18 out of 18 found this review helpful.
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| Product description | A CAT tool that learns the way you translate. Features predictive typing and the world's first commercial machine translation system that learns in real-time while you work. Based on Stanford research. Try it now for free. | MateCat is an enterprise-level, online CAT tool designed to make post-editing and outsourcing easy and to provide a complete set of features to manage and monitor translation projects.
Thanks to the integration of the largest collaborative translation memory and the best machine translation, you will always get from 10% to 20% more matches than with any other CAT tool and translate faster than ever.
MateCat is the only CAT tool that empowers you to accept all translation projects, even when your translators are busy or you do not cover one of the language pairs required by your client. Use Matecat to outsource your extra projects in one click and keep full control by monitoring real-time progress and translation quality in your dashboard.
You can use it for free at www.matecat.com |
| Price | Free Trial; Pro version coming in mid-2016 | free |
| File formats | MS Office 2007+, XLIFF, SDLXLIFF, TXT, HTML, XML, TXML, IDML | 70 file format supported. Read more here |
| License type | Software as a service (subscription) | Perpetual, open source |
| Operating system | Windows, MacOS, Linux | Other, Windows, Android, Apple iOS, MacOS, Linux |
| System requirements | A modern browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and/or Internet Explorer 11+ | Google Chrome 30, or higher (on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) Safari 1.7, or higher (on Mac OS X) |
| Compatibility | Runs in the browser | Supports for open standard file formats: XLIFF, TMX. Open API to connect to external applications (e.g. translation management systems) and machine translation systems. |
| Support and upgrades offered/included | Free updates, but not upgrades, Free technical support via support ticket center | N/A - Software is free, Free upgrades to all future versions, Free technical support via support ticket center, Free community support |
| Support and tutorial links | http://lilt.com/ | http://www.matecat.com/support/ |
| Free trial | Yes | No data |
| Languages supported | English↔Spanish, English↔French, and English↔German | 90 languages are supported. Read more here |
