What is Translation Memory Software?/What is SDL Trados?
Translation Memory applications are programs often employed by large companies to make large translation projects or translation projects over a long period of time more consistent in terminology and style. They do this by creating a Translation Memory (TM) consisting of text segments in a source language and their translations into the target language. They do not segment by words, as this is merely a glossary, but rather by sentence or sometimes paragraphs. Once a TM database becomes large enough to be useful the TM program will take a segment of text and compare it to previous translations in the database and then produce a translation suggestion which will most likely be modified by the translator and then added again to the TM database as new segment data. More advanced programs use what is know as fuzzy matching to make the database less reliant on exact matches and produce partially machine generated translation suggestions based on the TM database in use. The larger your TM dat
