HOW TO TRANSLATE A FILE USING SMARTCAT TOOL

 


1.     Open smartcat.com website on our computer/tablet. It actually works on any device including smartphones, yet the User Experience (UX) is best on computer and tablets.

2.     Change our account type into manager so that we can have more features of the smartcat tools



3.     Click “projects” on the left bar menu



4.     Click “create a project” to make any project with any file (doc or pdf)



5.     Click “translate a file” so that we can start translating using machine translation

6.     Choose the source language and target language


7.     Make sure we have prepared the file to be translated (doc or pdf), then choose the file to be uploaded on smartcat

8.     Click “get result” to have automatic/machine translated result

How to do post editing on our file

9.     After we have the machine translated result, click on the folder icon  to see our project

10.  Click “open” to open the machine translated result. It will bring us to the post editing page

11.  Now we can edit the machine translated text.  Later on, glossary is needed to make the target text consistent

How to download ST and TT in bilingual format or in other formats

12.  To get ST and TT in bilingual format, choose down arrow on the right side of the “download” symbol

13.  Click “BILINGUAL DOCX” so that it will download source text and target text in a form of a table of two column (source text and target text)

14.  We can also download other formats rather than only the bilingual version. We just need to choose what kind of file format on the download menu

How to make and download glossary

15.  To make glossary, change our account type into manager so that we have more features of the smartcat tools

16.  Click “linguistic assets” on the left bar menu to access the menu

17.  Click “glossary” to access the feature

18.  Click “create glossary” to create the glossary

19.  There are two columns (source language n target language) Add source text terms and target text terms manually on the table.

20.  To download the glossary, click “download” and it will automatically download the glossary in excel format file.

21.  To use glossary, we need to make sure that the glossary is checked. Go to “projects”, choose the file and click “go to project”

22.  There will be 3 dots on the top right of the sub-bar. Click the three dots, then click, ”linguist assets” 


23.  Check the box in which the glossary is going to be used to activate the glossary on our project that is being worked on



How to make and download translation memories

24.  To make translation memories, change our account type into manager so that we have more features of the Smartcat tool

25.  Click “linguistic assets” on the left bar menu

26.  Click “translation memories”

27.  Click “create TM” or we can edit the translation memories by clicking the “edit” button

28.  To download it in .tmx file, click “export” and it will automatically download the TM file

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