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Poll: What percentage of your projects require the use of CAT tools?
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Muriel Vasconcellos
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Zero - I'm more efficient without them Feb 12, 2011

I don't work for clients who "require" them, and I certainly don't "require" them myself. I
am faster and more accurate when I translate without looking at the screen or the keyboard.
 
Anthony Baldwin
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very few Feb 28, 2011

Very few of my projects "require" the use of a CAT too, but, still, I find myself using one on nearly 90% of the work I do, because I can, and it's more efficient.
This is especially true since the CAT tool that I use, OmegaT (http://www.omegat.org) creates a target document that mirrors the source in formatting, as identical as possible (given the variations in text length that translations entail), so, eve... See more
Very few of my projects "require" the use of a CAT too, but, still, I find myself using one on nearly 90% of the work I do, because I can, and it's more efficient.
This is especially true since the CAT tool that I use, OmegaT (http://www.omegat.org) creates a target document that mirrors the source in formatting, as identical as possible (given the variations in text length that translations entail), so, even where there is not repetition involved, it still makes my job easier, and, it gives me a translation memory for future use, as well. ▲ Collapse
 
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