Overview
This 12-hour course is suitable for translators who have little or no experience using Trados Studio and who want to quickly get started and learn how to work with its basic productivity features or for Translators who already have a little experience using Studio and want to improve their knowledge. It is an extensive course and covers everything a translator might need to translate documents using Studio at a basic level. A training workbook and sample files are provided for you to follow along on your own Studio desktop tool.
1. Introducing Trados Studio
You will be shown:
- what CAT technologies are
- what are translation memories, termbases & neural machine translation
- how they fit into the translation process
2. Introducing the software
You will be shown:
- the prerequisites needed
- starting up the software for the first time
- the Studio user interface
3. Translating an MS Word file in Studio
You will be shown:
- how to select a file for translation along with the source and target languages
- how to create a new translation memory
- how to adjust the font size and start translating
- how to use auto-propagation, automatic spelling checks and number substitution
- how to save the translation
- how to apply formatting
- how to insert and handle tags
- how to preview the translated content
- how to copy source text into the target segment
- how to deliver the translation
4. Creating a project to translate a new file
You will be shown:
- what are the benefits of using projects
- how to create a project
- how to view the project statistics
- how to translate the project files
- how to perform concordance searches
- how to create the target document
5. Using Project Templates
You will be shown:
- what are project templates
- how to create a project template
- how to create a project based on a project template
- how to add additional files to the project
- how to create the target files
- how to complete and remove projects
6. What are termbases?
You will be shown:
- what are termbases
- how to create a termbase
- how to add and retrieve terms
7. Trados Studio cloud capabilities
You will be shown:
- what are Trados Studio's cloud capabilities
- how to migrate your TM file to the Cloud
- how to set up a translation engine
- how to translate with cloud-based resources
8. Working with Neural Machine Translation
You will be shown:
- what neural machine translation is
- how to use NMT suggestions in a sample project