Trados, the leading translation platform by RWS, has launched its fourth Translation Technology Insights (TTI) survey – a comprehensive global study that gathers input from translation professionals across the entire supply chain. This research aims to uncover the industry’s evolving needs, challenges, and work patterns. With the last survey conducted in the wake of COVID-19, this year’s iteration comes at another pivotal moment: the rise of artificial intelligence. As AI reshapes the industry, the survey provides professionals with a platform to share their perspectives on its impact. Have your say and help shape the future of translation technology by taking the survey here.
Additionally, they have also released a collection of new enhancements to The Trados platform. Here are just a few of their latest innovations:
Improved automation and flexibility with new translation management functionality
Workflow improvements: Trados offers robust workflow capabilities that are designed to deliver high levels of automation, helping users streamline management tasks that once required numerous manual steps. Recent updates to the workflow interface have made it more intuitive and aligned with the modernized ‘Stages’ view. This redesign improves navigation, enables quick actions from a single screen, and optimizes the UI for widescreen monitors.
Streamline communication and project creation with better translation collaboration
Rich text support for Project Conversations: Effective teamwork begins with clear communication and having the right tools are crucial. In the Trados platform, the Project Conversations feature helps interactions between project managers and content requestors, allowing users to exchange messages within the context of specific projects. Now enhanced with rich text support, this capability greatly improves clarity, precision, and flexibility, ensuring smoother communication and workflows.
With rich text support, users can:
- Engage specific team members by mentioning users in comments, ensuring the right people are notified and can take appropriate action.
- Style comments to highlight key points using bold, underlined or italic text.
- Organize ideas with bulleted or numbered lists for improved readability.
- Provide additional context by including direct links to websites, documents, or other resources.
Speed up translation processes with new translation productivity features
Neural Fragment Recall: Trados is committed to boosting user productivity, which is why they are excited to introduce their new Neural Fragment Recall feature, the next generation of upLIFT Fragment Recall. Powered by AI-based neural alignment, this new capability elevates translation efficiency by delivering more accurate and consistent fragment suggestions in real-time.
Neural Fragment Recall improves on the original approach by leveraging a multilingual model pretrained on vast amounts of text. By analyzing text at the subword level, it can process new documents even if they contain unfamiliar words. Unlike its predecessor, it doesn’t depend on a specific number of translation units to begin working.Â
As translation units are added to a TM, Neural Fragment Recall automatically aligns source and target words or phrases, storing data for fast, consistent fragment retrieval. With fragment matches delivered via AutoSuggest in both the desktop and online editor, translators can seamlessly leverage results, boosting efficiency and reducing project turnaround times.
Finally, Trados is delighted to announce the return of ELEVATE, its highly anticipated annual online conference for translation professionals, taking place from May 6-8, 2025. This flagship event will feature thought-provoking discussions, expert insights, and exclusive previews of the latest advancements in translation technology – secure your place today.
For more in-depth details on all the improvements made to Trados, please visit the RWS Community. If your organization is not using Trados, please get in touch with them to find out more about the solutions they offer.
About Trados
Trados, the industry-leading translation platform from RWS, helps localization professionals translate everything. By offering a range of secure, intelligent translation products, we enable everyone across the global translation supply chain to streamline, centralize, and manage their translation work efficiently.
The Trados platform delivers an end-to-end solution for everyone involved in translation – whether a new translator looking to use their first computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool, a language service provider looking to collaborate more effectively with clients, or an organization looking to manage large volumes of multilingual content through a translation management system (TMS).