Poll: Do you use multiple CAT tools? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you use multiple CAT tools?".
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| | | | Thayenga 
Germany
Local time: 09:38
Member (2009)
English to German
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My always relyable WordFast Pro.
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 09:38
Spanish to English
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It depends on how you are you define CAT.
C is for Computer: I work using a computer, and have 2 PCs and 2 laptops so that I can can keep on working if any of them breaks down or needs updating, etc.
As for T (tools), I use WF Classic as my TM progam and GT4T as a simple copy-click-paste aid to translation, but not a [expletive deleted] panacea or subsitute for my own human skills. I also use Dragon NS as another alternative to typing.
And that's about ... See more It depends on how you are you define CAT.
C is for Computer: I work using a computer, and have 2 PCs and 2 laptops so that I can can keep on working if any of them breaks down or needs updating, etc.
As for T (tools), I use WF Classic as my TM progam and GT4T as a simple copy-click-paste aid to translation, but not a [expletive deleted] panacea or subsitute for my own human skills. I also use Dragon NS as another alternative to typing.
And that's about it about it, unless we count the research tools and resources available online, such as Google, Wikipedia, term bases and glossaries... Not forgetting proz itself
[Edited at 2014-06-08 10:05 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Diana Coada (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:38
Portuguese to English
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Thayenga wrote: My always relyable WordFast Pro.
... but with Dragon
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Daily, I use Swordfish, but sometimes there is a need/reason to use either Wordfast or OmegaT.
| | | | | what reasons for using multiple (a question) | Jun 8, 2014 |
Up to now have not seen a need for one in my work. That is, recently I did one job that I think might have benefited from a CAT treatment.
I'm asking the original asker of the poll how the idea of multiple tools came up - and everyone why one ever would use multiple ones. Is it that some tools are more suited to one kind of job, and other tools for another (a good reason)? Or because clients are taking over and demanding the use of tools when they should be asking for the product... See more Up to now have not seen a need for one in my work. That is, recently I did one job that I think might have benefited from a CAT treatment.
I'm asking the original asker of the poll how the idea of multiple tools came up - and everyone why one ever would use multiple ones. Is it that some tools are more suited to one kind of job, and other tools for another (a good reason)? Or because clients are taking over and demanding the use of tools when they should be asking for the product - not the means of producing it - so that it becomes a case of responding to client requests? (not so good a reason / scenario). ▲ Collapse
| | | | Elías Sauza
Mexico
Local time: 01:38
Member (2002)
English to Spanish
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I only own a Trados Studio license, but I use other clients' CAT tools to which they provide me access. I guess I use 7 or 8 different CAT tools.
[Edited at 2014-06-08 15:09 GMT]
| | | | Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 16:38
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
Trados
I've never been asked to use anything else over here. It's the de facto standard if you do buisness with Japanese customers/clients. HTH
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 09:38
Member (2006)
German to English
several, but not a the same time
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Elías Sauza wrote:
I only own a Trados Studio license, but I use other clients' CAT tools to which they provide me access. I guess I use 7 or 8 different CAT tools.
[Edited at 2014-06-08 15:09 GMT]
The same for me, except that I don't use that many, maybe 4 or 5.
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Across PE and Studio 2014.
| | | | Marjolein Snippe
Netherlands
Local time: 09:38
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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Wordfast for most jobs, MemoQ for one particular client, a web-based one (XTM) for another client.
Wordfast is the only one I own a licence for.
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